Martha&Patrick - A blast from the past

The summer wedding season is nearing its close and it’s time to review our work these past few months. I tried to cover all of our wedding adventures and describe the wonderful time we had with new friends, but sadly I wasn’t able to write about them all. So in light of looking at AddVision’s growth as a company and giving everyone the spotlight they deserve, I’m going to chronicle these past few months. Prepare yourself for awesome.

It was the seventh of May, a sunny day and a wonderful way to start the summer. We met our lovely bride and groom at the Indian Run United Methodist Church in Dublin and mozied on over to the Scioto Reserve Country Club for the reception.



Indian Run’s beautiful bridal suite and groom’s quarters made for some awesome portraits, but the money shots really came at the country club. Martha and Patrick made it rain with the poker chips and played along with us to make for an amazing shoot. Good Luck, Martha and Patrick! Thank you for a wonderful day and leading the way for our best summer yet.


"I see your bet and raise you my wife"

Up North With Aaron and Rana

So I know it’s been a while since my last post, too long to be exact. We’ve had quite a few weddings since then, double bookings, all the while working in the air-conditionless Crockpot that is our studio. The rest of the AddVision men have been all over Ohio – down to Cincinnati for a Tim Burton’s corpse bride party and up to Cleveland with a beach side adventure (heck yes, we travel!).

At the beginning of July, both the AddVision video and photo teams made their way out to the Northstar Golf Club up in Delaware, Ohio, for Aaron and Rana’s wedding. The country air was a great departure from the crowded city skies. Northstar granted us the equivalent of the presidential golf cart motorcade, rolling dirty, 9 carts deep. That’s as gangster as they get up in Delaware, Ohio. After puttsing around the course, we returned with quite a bit more perspiration, but completely tick free. Take that, Lyme disease.

While Aaron and Rana were only interested in the video, including the ceremony and toasters – the five-hour package deal – we decided to come a bit earlier in order to capture some preparation footage. By including the ‘getting ready’ business (hair primping, dress bustling, G&T pounding), it allows us to better sculpt your wedding video into a cinematic experience that would make Michael Bay blush. Explosions are optional.

We rarely have the chance, but for this wedding we were granted the wonderful opportunity to work with fellow AddVisioners, Bryce and Mac, photographer extraordinaires. There is a complicated and tenuous waltz that occurs between the photography and videography teams. Like any relationship, it takes the patience of a Hindu cow and the unapologetic chutzpah of a Jewish mother. In order to hold their audience’s attention, photographers must quickly usher their subject through the gamut of various jumping positions and 90’s album cover poses. Videographers must tastefully ask to step in and have their own slow dance with the happy couple. I don’t recall there being any confrontation, but it’s always nice to have someone from your own team, a wingman at your side telling you “you got this, man.” Go team AddVision!

We love every minute of our job, and we love it even more when we can work with our friends and be with great people, like Rana and Aaron. Congrats, you two love birds!

Couple of the Year 2010

As the AddVision crew was lounging around the studio one night, manhandling, editing, and backing up thousands of files, Bryce turned and asked “Who was our coolest couple of 2010?” We sat there for a while contemplating and realized that we enjoyed working with all our couples last year and we should not be the ones to choose which happy couple deserved this title! Silence ensued. Since that fateful question, the Studio has since become a war-zone, where passive aggressive remarks and biting insults are exchanged with each passing breath. Just kidding. After many sleepless nights, we turn to you: our families, friends, and clients. You decide! Listed below are the candidates for AddVision’s "2010 Couple of the Year". To vote, all you have to do is go to our fan page and visit our album "2010 Couple of the year". After reviewing the album, ‘like’ the photograph you feel is worthy of our "2010 Couple of the Year" award. Which couple captures the essence of young love? Oh which one shall it be?

1st place (the couple with the most likes) will win

-1 Hour Portrait Shoot (Trash the Dress, Family or Children)

-$100 Gift Card to Cameron Mitchell Restaurants

-$50.00 iTunes Gift Card

-2010 Couple of the Year recognition!

2nd place (the couple with the second most likes) will win

-$25.00 Gift Card to Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams

Pretty cool prizes, right? Voting will end at Noon Monday, July 11.

Help us crown Columbus’s finest couple and make peace within the studio.

Prepare For A New Age

Hello all you AddVision fans! I know you have been anxiously awaiting our next post. It’s been quite a while, but I think you can now rest at ease as I have come to fulfill all your AddVision update needs! Let’s start with some quick introductions: my name is Austin and I am the cinematography / marketing intern for AddVision. This blog was bequeathed to me by the charming and talented Bryce Koechlin, who has been tirelessly climbing the mountain that is the Columbus wedding season. Any who, each week I will give brief descriptions of the weddings I attend, little things that are going on inside the office as well the obligatory pop culture reference. Shall we?

So this past Saturday, the cinematography team of AddVision made one of its frequent adventures to the Columbus Athenaeum. There is no doubt that the Athenaeum is a beautiful venue. Its vintage veneer harkens back to athletic clubs of yester year, where well to do families sipped on martini's and leisurely discussed politics after a round of squash. The ornate decorations and architecture would make some stain glass encrusted churches blush. Couples always want the location’s beauty to be featured in the their wedding video, but there’s just one problem with this request: it's too dark.

I understand mood lighting, but what’s the point of eating in a beautiful room if it’s so dark you can’t even enjoy the fancy atmosphere let alone distinguish the prime cut fillet from great aunt Suzanne’s beefy hand. The lights go down even lower when the dancing starts. People seem to abide by the same pubescent dancing principles as they did back in middle school, i.e. make sure the dance floor is pitch black to hide everyone’s graceless pelvic thrusting.

By using off-camera flash, photographers can easily adjust for these lighting conditions, but those of us in the video department need a constant lighting in order to get the shots that aren’t marred by the grain of the high ISO range. The moral of the story is: if you want to get good dancing video, turn up the lights and embrace your terrible dance moves. If you consider yourself a shy person, go get some liquid confidence from the open bar - that’s what it’s there for.

AJ and Renee included a video/testimonial booth that has yet to be tested for quality in the editing room, but proved to be a popular option for many of the wedding guests. We aimed to get the Real World testimonial aesthetic, but replaced the catty whining with tipsy well-wishers and goofy stories from friends. People often came with sweet and simple messages of luck for the future, but there were some like uncle Bob (there’s always an uncle Bob) who explained the roots of the groom’s name and its reference to uncle bob’s brother who died at a young age.

In my opinion, the video booth captured the perfect balance of wedding festivities – carefree silliness and jovial celebration punctuated by moments of love and teary-eyed happiness. As said before, the results of the video booth have yet to be seen, but for anyone willing to sacrifice some of the cinematic glory for a more personal touch, I highly recommend the testimonial booth option. Good Luck AJ and Renee!

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Abby + Derek 4/24/2010

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Excited for 2010

We're really excited for 2010. Thank you to all of our clients in 2009 and best wishes for a new year. We are kicking 2010 off with our winter specials! **WINTER SPECIALS** - Book wedding photography with AddVision before 2/1/2010 and get 50% off video. Contact us for more details! 2010 SENIORS - FREE sitting fee. No minimum purchase. Must book before 2/1/2010.

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Andrea and Jai. 9/5/2009.

Senior Pictures for Taylor. Class of 2010.