Flight of Ideas

Yesterday, I had my first try shooting a wedding.

It was the wedding of two of my former officemates, Mervin and Bebbet. Markku promised to shoot their wedding back when they were still working together, and when both Mervin and Bebbet didn’t know that in a few years time they’d eventually be tying the knot.

So, I was Markku’s assistant photographer yesterday.

I was a nervous wreck before the wedding. To make things worse, I was also cramming for a church activity I was supposed to facilitate on that same day.

It was a bit overwhelmed during the actual shoot. The fact that it’s my first time and I’m still not technically adept when it comes to using a DSLR made me feel like jelly. But ironically, the rush of the event itself, the presence of familiar faces, Bong, Rose, Mae, Mon and Kuya Ariel of Threelogy, and my ever-supportive, masungit na pangga (peace tayo ‘ga ), eventually calmed me down. E kasi naman, tama bang mas kabahan pa sa mga ikakasal?

It was also a good thing that I was working for the best wedding photographers in town. They’re the greatest influence I have now, and trimming all those photos indirectly trained me to compose great ones too. Not that I took a lot of it though, hehe. So I should thank them.

In the end, in spite of all the stress, I still enjoyed it a lot. And I burned a lot of calories in the process!

Ah, and did I mention that I practiced for this shoot? Here’s Archie, my practice bride:

But, Archie’s definitely not a “bride-to-be”. We’re actually looking for nice, beautiful, tall girls who would be willing to date him, noh ‘Chie?

And finally, I’ll just share some helpful tips from this article that I came across in The Digital Photography School Blog.