Glass Eye Video Blog: The blog for wedding videography. Wedding and event video production company based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Amy and Jason had a GORGEOUS wedding this past Saturday and it didn’t hurt that we reached record high temps here in Cincy! They were so much fun and it was a great way to end my wedding season. Magic was in the air and I mean that literally, Jason and his groomsmen are all magicians and helped keep the evening entertaining! The awesomely talented Steph Carson was there to document the day as well and was a HUGE help as I produced the Same Day Edit. The Same Day Edit is an incredible feature where I show a highlight of the day’s events at the reception. From the preparations, to the Ceremony, and even the first dance, its ALWAYS a great experience for the guests and I’m so proud to be the only one in Cincinnati offering this feature!! I really wanted to play off of Jason and his magic skills and include some in the video that played on the big screen that night. Heidi McKenna made sure everyone looked AMAZING and Ryan Schwartz of DJ Butlers did an INSANE job of keeping the dance floor packed all night long and helped me out a great deal as well. I wanted to share with you the video that played at their reception and I really hope you enjoy it!

So my awesome friends Kortnee and Ted over at Simply Timeless Photography approached me a few weeks ago to produce a video Christmas card to mail out to their friends and family, and I was super excited to get started on it! We shot this in about an hour and a half and I think it totally shows their fun loving nature, we had such a blast and their son Micah was hamming it up the whole time, the kid is a camera junkie! I’m really thinking they had a great idea with this video card and I’m looking forward to doing more of them in the future. I hope you enjoy their card!

One of the things I love most about what I do is the opportunity for travel. Last January I learned so much at the International Cinematographer Conference in Orlando, Video 08, I decided to sign up for this year too! Reagan and Mya will be joining me in what doubles as a family vacation, and we’re really excited to take Mya to Disney World. We’ve got a few of our recent videos in for International awards, so keep your fingers crossed!

The day after we return to Cincinnati, I head up to Canada to spend a few days at a workshop headed by one of the greatest studios in the biz, Still Motion. I had the amazing opportunity to work with them a couple months ago and I’ve been looking forward to the workshop ever since.  Only 12 Cinematographers were chosen to participate in this hands on workshop about taking wedding and event film making to the next level.  

As if all that weren’t enough, in April I make the trek to Austin for the second Re:Frame event. Re:Frame is an exclusive and intensive workshop all about learning innovative techniques and trends. Cinematographers from around the world will be there and I am lucky to be one of 50 participants selected to attend. I had such a great time and learned so much in New Orleans back in October, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do it again.

We are really looking foward to an amazing year in 2009. We have some new things up our sleeves so stay tuned.

Without a doubt, one of the greatest weddings I’ve had the honor of being a part of was Christy and Tom’s.  St. Xavier Church was just the beginning that night.   The reception at Music Hall was incredibly unique and insanely gorgeous, thanks to Brigid Horne-Nestor of i-do weddings and events!   Not one, but TWO live bands kept the guests entertained throughout the evening, including my favorite local band, The Rusty Griswolds.  I’ve never seen a dance floor come alive like the one that night, it was AMAZING!    I had the great pleasure of working along side Tine Hofmann, who was there snapping beautiful pictures one after the other!  This was the first wedding I filmed in Super 8 and it was the perfect wedding to cover in this beautiful medium.    Its truly amazing how the film brings a whole new life to the images in a way that simply cannot be achieved with any other medium.   I had the film processed in widescreen format to give it a modern twist and to help it flow with the HD footage that I shot that day as well.   I hope you enjoy their teaser!

The song is ‘Love and Some Verses’ by Iron & Wine and can be found in

I’ve been so excited to make this post and announce that we have entered the world of Super 8 film!  This has been a long time coming as I wanted to make sure I chose the right equipment and processing lab to handle my productions.    After being inspired by the giants of the industry, I knew this was something I had to get into as well.  The look, the feel, the raw emotion that is pulled from the film is something that simply cannot be imitated and it is truly breathtaking.  I filmed my first wedding a couple weeks ago and the bride was completely blown away by it, the coordinator and the photographer and several guests also made comments about it.   I just got the film back from processing and I plan to have a trailer up next week, so please check back!   

Photo credit goes to Mandi White

Just as Mya reaches the toddler years, Reagan and I find out we’re expecting our second child in June 2009!  What an incredible blessing this is!  Mya has been so much fun to watch over the last eighteen and a half months, the discoveries, the new abilities, growing out of clothes and into new ones, its been an amazing time of my life.  To think I get to experience this all over again is too good to be true and we’re so excited for the new addition to our family and to watch Mya’s interaction with the little one, I want it to start right now!   I’ll certainly keep you updated as things progress, but for now, I’ll leave you with an update on what Mya’s been up to lately! 

Talk, talk, talk, she LOVES to talk, and I honestly cannot believe the things she’s picked up on.  She knows her colors, does fairly well with her ABCs, considering her age, and is also blowing me away with her counting.  She loves to order Reagan and I around.  She recently got the Clipo Activity Table (a must for any child her age!), anyway, she loves to sit down, pull the table over her legs and yell, ‘Mama! Dada! PAY’ (play)!   Sometimes Reagan and I won’t go to her right away just so we can hear her say it again, its so darn cute!  She’s very bossy with the television and let us know she wants to watch Noddy or Caillou, thankfully we have a library on DVR!  She also says Guinness’ name, sorta.  We call him Guinney and she has turned that into GEEE.   She’s quite the artist now, thanks to the Crayola bathtub crayons, (another must for any child her age), its a  great way for her to enjoy bath time even more and its a lot of fun to watch her doodle, on the shower walls, the floor and herself!  The picture above was taken in October by our good friend Nicole C, she shot our wedding and has been a friend ever since!   Stay tuned for more updates!

What an insanely fun wedding Ryan and Amanda had!  Ryan’s a true Macintosh lover, so much so, their wedding had an apple theme to it.  How cool is that?!?!  Dawn Dagenbach of Details By Dawn did an incredible job playing with this theme, from the iPhone grooms cake, to the Appletini signature drink, the carved apples to hold votive candles and the the apple tree that held the guests seating assignments, everything was perfect!  I had the great pleasure of working with Tracy and Crystal of Sandra Reed Photography for the first time and they were soooo much fun to work with.  They even invited me along for the Day After shoot for Ryan and Amanda and I’m hoping to work with them again in the future.  I hope you enjoy their trailer, which is a hybrid of their wedding and their Day After shoot!  

The song is 1,2,3,4 by the Plain White T’s and it can be found in

Wow! The team of Glass Eye Video is now one person stronger! It took me quite a while to find someone I felt shared the same passion for video and film production as I do and I’m so pleased to announce the addition of Josh Emerson to Glass Eye Video! I met Josh a couple months ago when Kelly Ley Smith of Daphne Photo Studio introduced us, he wanted to help out with a Trash the Dress we were producing. Josh really hit the ground running that day and I could really see his commitment to nailing the shot, no matter what it took. I’m an incredibly passionate person and I absolutely LOVE what I do so I really took my time to find the right person who I believed shared the same values. 2009 is looking to be an incredible year for us and I’m so excited about what lies ahead with the new studio, new features to be announced soon, and now the new team member!

Stephanie and Ryan had one of the most intimate weddings I’ve ever had the pleasure of filming. From the moment I first met Stephanie I could tell how important her family is to her and that became very evident on her wedding day. This was a wedding filled with their closest friends and family who came to celebrate with them as they begin their new lives together. When I heard they were doing a classic car photo shoot, I knew this one was going to be different. Varney Photography was there to make sure not a moment was lost and were a pleasure to work with. The details were incredible, down to the guests favors.   Check out that bouquet! I’m not sure I’ve seen one more beautiful! This was an amazing Fall wedding and I’m honored to have documented it. I hope you enjoy their trailer!
The song is ‘Breathe Me’ by Sia

Nicole and Britt were married on a beautiful September evening at the Bell Event Center and my good friends Kortnee & Ted of Simply Timeless Photography were along for the ride, and what a ride it was!  Before the Ceremony, we had a SUPER SWEET photo shoot.   The photo shoots are my favorite part of the day, its where I get to exercise my creativity and the sky’s the limit as far as what we can do.  Walk on the suspension bridge during rush hour, done.  Hang the dress in a tree on fountain square, done.    The images that are created are like nothing you’d typically see in a wedding video.  We’re creating art and preserving memories at the same time, its amazing.   Britt and Nicole and the entire wedding party were a blast to work with and really helped breathe life into their trailer, I hope you enjoy!