Columbus Wedding Photography: GroovyDoodle Photography

We recently participated in a rather unique wedding show. Fully Committed was held on the second floor of the amazingly elegant Athletic Club of Columbus, and featured 20 hand-selected Columbus wedding vendors. This was the show’s first year, so it was a pretty intimate setting, especially when compared with the larger “meat market” wedding shows that are held in January and February. Aside from being later in the year and quite a bit smaller, what else made this show so special? Each vendor at the show was specifically chosen because they are either gay-owned or GLBT-friendly. The event catered to both GLBT and straight couples who wanted to feel confident that they could discuss their wedding plans and their family without prejudice, and we were proud to be one of the show’s selected vendors.

As it turns out, we’d worked with a good number of the other vendors in the past, and can happily recommend them to you if you’re still looking for quality service providers for your own wedding. Please note that the following are wedding vendors that we’ve actually worked with in some capacity, and our recommendation of them is completely unsolicited.

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As the exclusive photographers for Columbus Children’s Theatre, we regularly post pics of their shows, academy classes and touring company. Check out our favorites from their upcoming production of Cinderella. The show runs April 14 – 24, 2011. Tickets range from $11 – $21 and can be purchased through the CCT Box Office at 614-224-6672.

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We had the honor of donating our time to capture the Columbus Children’s Theatre’s annual gala again this year. The event was themed after their Spring musical – Cinderella – with patrons being encouraged to dress the part for a Royal Ball and Feast. Much like a wedding and reception, the evening was filled with one-of-a-kind photo opportunities that we were proud to capture for one of our favorite non-profits. All in all, we delivered hundreds of photos from the event. Here are just a few of our favorite shots from over the course of the evening…

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What do you get when you put two fun professional photographers, a full onsite wedding reception studio and a bunch of merry wedding guests together? You get the most awesome GroovyBooth experience imaginable!

We originated this wedding photo booth concept years ago, just weeks before our first GroovyDoodle wedding.

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Wedding season is upon us, but it’s been a busy winter. So if you’re visiting for the first time and looking around for samples of our wedding work, it may be a while before you find them on the front page of the blog again. An easier way to filter out all the winter theatre and family work we’ve been doing is to click here. The link will filter the site for wedding and engagement-related posts only.

Look around if you have a minute or two. And if not, we’re happy to save you some time and get to where you want to be.

As the exclusive photographers for Columbus Children’s Theatre, we’ll be posting regular pics of their shows, academy classes and touring company. Want to learn more about CCT? Visit them online.

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Local performing artist Darius Williams came in to the studio for some updated professional headshots. These are just a very small sample of what we ended up with. Want to see more? Check out Darius’s full photo gallery.

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Getting married? Looking for awesome, Columbus wedding vendors? Then join us for Fully Committed Sunday, April 17th from 10 – 2.

“Are straight couples welcome?” Of course! This is an inclusive event. We are expecting gay, lesbian and transgender couples, straight couples where one person may have gay parents and straight couples who simply understand that every dollar they spend is a vote for something – and they want to spend their wedding dollars with vendors who share their belief in marriage equality. All wedding vendors at the event are either gay-owned or GLBT-friendly, just like GroovyDoodle.

We’d love to see you there, and can even offer a 10% discount code to anyone who’s interested. Proceeds benefit Equality Ohio.

“You guys take really nice pics. What kind of camera do you use? I’m interested in photography and thinking about buying a camera.”

We get this question a lot. To answer the first question “What kind of camera do you use?“, Adam shoots with a Nikon D300 and I shoot a Nikon D300S model. These aren’t the cameras we started with (which were a Nikon D70 and Nikon D80, respectively), but they’re the pro models we’ve grown into over several years – there are no ‘training wheels’ or auto features, which makes them very difficult (in my opinion) to learn to shoot on for first-time DSLR users and impossible to hand over to a non-photographer to get a decent pic of you when you’re on vacation with that stellar background that you bought the cam to capture in the first place! Why Nikon? I shoot Nikon because Adam already had Nikon when I bought my first “big girl” camera and it made sense to have the brands match so that we could share lenses (the real expense to quality photographs). Adam chose Nikon years before that, quite simply, because of the way the camera fit in his hand when compared with the Canon models available at that time.

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Which brings us to the real question, “I want a ‘grown-up’ Digital SLR. What kind of camera should I buy?” The short answer is: the camera body that fits easily into your hand and your budget. While having a top-of-the-line camera body is nice once you really know how to take advantage of all the features, you can just as easily get amazing photos with an inexpensive camera body. Going for more than the entry-level consumer model isn’t going to earn you anything but a painful learning curve and bragging rights for having lots of cash to burn. Save your pennies for the lenses. That’s where the magic truly happens!

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The Andersons asked us to meet with them for a family portrait session despite the snowy weather while their son was home on leave from the US armed forces, so once again we headed to our favorite winter venue, Franklin Park Conservatory. Here are just a few of our favorites from this session…

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