It looks like he did it on purpose.

wow.

I would have said something to these idiots.

You know...they have special tools for those people:

Big shoes, size 50 with steel noses, a taser, a lasso or a giant hook!
There is also the funny way: go and stand very close to the photographer and sneeze very loud in his ear while he makes a photo and say 'I'm sorry, I have a bad cold'. He will stay off the radar for that day. Guaranteed!

I'm kidding about the taser by the way. ;-)

Very 'funny' movie :-)

OMG, that is SOOOOOO unprofessional.

Ha, so many times they looked at you at didn't even bother to move. I would have went nuts.

That DSLR would have had a new home if it were my video job.. jammed somewhere where the sun don't shine.

damn that was funny. a pocket full of salted peanuts to throw at the back of their heads would have been a good solution. has to be salted peanuts though.

Uh - mazing

lol I now see the new meaning to the "trigger happy" or the "spray and pray" technique. Their killing their referrals, if I was part of this wedding I would want to see the bride and groom not the 2 clowns that happen to pop up at all the key special moments.

wow! incredible. :(

i feel sooo angry... and at the same time tickled!!! I would have edited something like this too.. post on the company's FB wall!!

I feel ashamed to call myself a wedding photographer after watching that, they were truly dreadful!

Video and Stills need to work with each other at a wedding to deliver the best possible finished product to the bride and groom, those photographers looked like they were actively working against you!

Should have shoved the silly Fong dongs on their flashes where the sun dont shine!

Did you ask them if they owned a telephoto lens ?

Lol. what a shame. its the way they looked around at you and stopped bang centre of your view and started shooting. What did they say to you when you spoke to them?

I had to shoot a wedding under these conditions once. Fortunately the B&G understood and didn't blame me. And during the sermon, the only other sound you could hear was the clicking of two Nikon camera shutters, every second or two--very distracting.
But just imagine a bridezilla who won't pay the balance on her wedding video because her photographers prevented you from getting good footage!

haha bonus feature...nice. I'm a photog and that is just ridiculous!

That's amazing! Hope you're going to keep this online - I'd like to point all of my future clients here to watch!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I put link to your video on my blog

sure :))
plushakoff.blogspot.com

if you can read :)) i write in german and russian

That's awesome!

oh, sorry ... I'm a photog :)))))))))

Seems like they are too lazy to change to longer lenses :)

Just to be fair, there are some inconsiderate videographers too.

Great video! Had a "pleasure" to work with such photographers a few times. I also like those who use video light for taking pictures and switching it on and off 5 times during the rings exchange or the cake or some other important event..... I was shooting a wedding in Hollywood. There was not allowed to photographers and video to be in any visible area. We were shooting behind the bushes from far away. May be it wasn't right but was some kind of fun :)

It was great! )))))

жесть. добрые фотографы. :)

I do not envy you, your video informative and very ridiculous, for what to you many thanks :))

After wedding this photographers stayed alive?

honestly, I can see these are not big event or TV programme, just wedding ceremony, why use tripod on video camera? Don't tell me this is professional skill, because expert videographer always change their own sight to suit difficult condition.

Those photographer didn't do anything wrong because they shoot and move, they appear in your video is very common, as long as your got more than 1 video camera, these scenes should be deleted after editing, 3 hours video after edited can be just 15 to 30 mins, and that is long enough, because you are not producing a movie.

I don't know what is your purpose to show these deleted scene, I feel that you are threatening your customer if they not going to use your photographer. With this kind of attitude, you will just lose a lot of customers. Pls respect the whole team even they are not your photographer.

Why don't you think that, when videographer accidentally appear in photo, shall the photographer complain on the videographer (especially with the unfriendly tripod)? So far they didn't complain anything about that, but I believe they will, just when they see this video.

communication is the key to the problem.
And sometimes is about being professional,
when u meet people like this.

Most people only think there's photographers and videographers here. In fact, there're 4 entities, photogs, videogs, B&G, and the live audience. What the photographers not only blocked the videographer but also the live audience's view.

From my point of view, i don't think it's fair to blame the photographers completely as i can see the wedding stage is seriously small for everyone to get their job done easy.

Of cause the idea solution is to work with some photographers who know your style of working, however as a professional videographer you may also need to be prepare to face any happening situation, specially working with photographers who doesn't know your working style. Every professional has their own difficulties to face, the photographers are doing their job as well and they have to answer to the client too.

Of cause you may show this video clip to your client to make them understand why you can't capture the moment but in the end, I believe the client will still be much happier to see their photos with no video tripod blocking, rather then having a "challenging game to see if you can spot where the photographers are in the video".

By the way, complaining doesn't always earn the benefits, because customer only wants the final result that worth every single cents they're paying.

all the best to you.

Being a photographer myself, I'm ashamed of this. This is terrible.
Man, you've got iron nerves. I would shove that Gary Fong thing right up his a%%!

I am not a wedding photographer but still I would like to remind you that the light power density from flash decreases with distance in squared relationship. If you increase distance from flash to an object by 2, you have to increase the flash light density by 4. That's why you just can't use 200 mm lenses and take shoots from 10 meters position with Speedlite units.

Oh my god.. i feel like kicking the photog as I watch the video..

:))) they are the same worldwide!

:)) You need hire assistant, who will drive away the photographer of this picture. Then the video will be even more fun!

ППЦ...кипел и смотрел... он что специально лезут в кадр? ну чел видит что камера снимает.. все равно стоит впереди и еще и щелкает гостей в зале... надо было им разбить объективы, пусть с телеконверторами с 10ти метров щелкают!

убил бы этого пидармота лезущего в кадр

I believe that would be a cause for justifiable homicide. ;o)

Taky, allow me to share this on my facebook wall :D I've met these kinda people, they sure deserved to be knocked by my lens hood :D

You should have all your cams modified and equipped with poison darts, just in case...

Funny video, but spoilt your work, it`s a pity

Friend, I work with videos here in Brazil and sometimes it happens that this event occurred ... I found a lack of professional ethics altogether, as the friend said they looked up to the camera and not even leave the environment, nonsense. Here in Brazil stuck forever working among friends for we will not have these problems. Thank God we work with friends and super happy. Hugs

I think we need security guard ....
Oh man, I am still laughing ......

This is so easy.
We can set up a perimeter say a radius of 10 feet. Then every XXgrapher shoot shoulder to shoulder. So no one block anybody. Happy now?
Oh one more thing. There will be a sign on all XXXgrapher's back saying "professionals doing professional job professionally. All you people back there please wait. Meanwhile, please enjoy watching my A$$"
What about the audience? What audience?

Но вообще справедливости ради стОит сказать что съёмка этого всего шла уже бонусом (если я правильно понял из комментариев) и оператор на расслабоне поставил камеру на штатив и работал только трансфокатором, а не мозгами. Ведь видно же, что фотографы оглядываются на оператора. Я бы в таком случае просто попробовал подойти ближе тогда бы никто в кадр не лез.

Но тут ещё вот что... У людей праздник. Они на расслабоне. И этот праздник устроен не для операторов или фотографов, а для себя. Т.е. все "сниматели" должны стараться быть незаметными. Оператор взял правильный курс в этом отношении. А фотографы его не поняли. И, да, оптика ещё наверное короткофокусная у них.

Watched u'r back mr. photographer...

So funny and all too true!

I think I saw a photographer at the beginning of the clip. He was wearing some striped shirt and tie and carrying a small pocket camera. The other people with cameras aren't allowed to be called photographers. They should be called a nuisance.

I"m laughing!!!

OMG! I am from Michigan and I think I ate here for Dim Sum. The plaza was like an L shape and looked just like this. Somewhere in china town? LA

I have a new video from another wedding..

vimeo.com/13027258

Truly incredible! I had a similar issue at my last wedding even after the photographer asked where I would be standing throughout the event to avoid me. She then was in my way on most every important shot. But this video simply takes the cake.

Thank you for posting.

That was funny and frustrating - have you sent it to the photography company?

L.A., a photographer's first job is to get the shot and I know you understand this. But these guys had a second agenda which was to screw up your video. That's entirely obvious. Real professionals are competitive but we usually figure out a way so everybody can work without stressing each other.

As a videographer Monday through Fridays and a photographer on the weekends, THIS is exactly why I shoot with my 70-200/2.8 at weddings: to stay out of the video team's way! I prefer sniping rather than being in the middle of those magical moments anyway... you get more natural, less distorted images when you're not up your subject's nostrils with an ultrawide!

You are a much more patient videographer than I am... those knuckleheads would have had a multi-column Manfrotto tripod shoved in a very uncomfortable place if they did that more than 5 times on one of my shoots! hahahaha

Thanks for sharing this (and part II)!

Ну тут явно они не нашли общий язык между собой, ну конечно фотографы не доделаны, прежде чем лезть так близко к главным лицам, не мешало бы убедиться что не попадаешь в кадр

да и правильно товарищ выше пишет, используйте 70-200, светосилы 2.8 должно быть достаточно, зачем же прямо в лицо тыкать

HAHAHA XD Bastards!!!

How do you revolv this problem? :O

I hope he's seen this, he will annoy himself! Unbelievable!! You have more patience than me. Great edit!

My question is, everyone wants to do a good job and get the best angle. Then who should be prioritized? Who should give way and who should compromise? I think the moment for a photographer to take a good shot is comparatively short compared to a video shot. If he has to look where the videographer is before taking every shot, he may have missed a lot of good shot.

I think communication is the key here and this two industry will always met each other in various of events.

Glad that in your case it didn't get serious like the video below
youtube.com/watch?v=K-nyQBygkPc

on 9.... 佢下下都沖埋去, 都比佢遮住哂, 連現場賓客都睇唔到對主角啦...

There were two or three monkeys with wide angle lenses jumping around - it is hard to believe these guys were a team. When I work with another photographer we put different lenses and work different angles and keep track of where each of the team is. If I were a groom - I'd most likely tell those guys to go for a walk and never come back

Nice music too!

hahaha... this is funny

"If your pictures aren't good enough,you're not close enough." Robert Capa.

can i know tat music?

Дебилы пиздоглазые!!!

an important thing that i learnt from experience is that, no matter your're a videographer or photographer, you must always make your presence felt by the other videog/photog especially if he/she isn't someone from you team. no matter videog or photog, we must have good communication skills to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

having an eye for compositing shots don't make you a pro after all.

"I love you, photographer!"
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