A few weeks ago I headed over to the Central Coast to take part in a massive vendor collaboration. Fellow photographer/videographer and good friend of mine, Patrick Ang, shared an idea with me a while ago. He wanted to create a funny infomercial style spoof video that would playfully poke fun at wedding guests who can’t seem to put down their phones/cameras/ipads/etc. Around the same time I was working on a styled shoot collaboration with another fellow photographer friend, Jeanette Ennis. Eventually we all figured out that we should plan one big fake wedding together, and boom! – the filming of The Wedding Ninja was in motion.
Everyone who participated was also a wedding vendor. I think one of my favorite parts of the whole project was seeing them channel their guest characters and portray the most obnoxious bunch of people I’ve ever seen at a wedding. It was a blast, and we all had a great time doing it! You can find me in the video playing the professional photographer struggling to get her shot between two guest-photographers. Even though this is totally all in fun, things like this do happen occasionally. I think the biggest lesson to take away, is simply to be present. Photographers are their to take photos of your faces, not your devices. So, it’s important to stop and experience these special moments in “3D.”
As part of this shoot, I also took several photos of the lovely styling that went into our fake wedding day. I will share those next, but first I thought I would share some of the fun we had behind the scenes. You can see a full list of those involved here (and at the end of the video).
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