Merry Christmas from CyberBuffalo & AbraCatrena! Each year we do a Halloween and Christmas card and this year I decided to do a little breakdown on how we made it. Our cards are GENERALLY made up of multiple photos that I will comp together using Affinity Photo, this is generally because we’re only 2 people and photographing cats is hard.

Here was this years inspiration. We wanted us to be the adults and the cats to be the stuff the adults dream about.

We shot each of us separately, so we could help one another pose as we were craned up over a small table. It was awkward!

Then we plated the table, upper garland and ornament. Fun fact! This was the only “blank” round shiny christmas ornament we had in our entire house. So we went with it!

Finally, the divas, the stars, the “true talent.” The boys were shot separate as well as together, but these individual shots turned out to work the best. Love their 1000 yard stares here.

And here’s the final comp, layer by layer, in affinity! We layered the ornament reflection on top of the cats to add to the effect. Everything else was pretty straightforward. Light was a 7’ white Westcott umbrella, diffused, behind camera. Shot on my Fujifilm XT-3.