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Good Accounting Practices

Lesson 15 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

Good Accounting Practices

Lesson 15 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

15. Good Accounting Practices

Lessons

Class Trailer

Introduction

1

What this course is about and how to succeed

01:48
2

Why you should become a wedding photographer

01:32

Starting Your Wedding Photography Business

3

Business Section Intro

00:28
4

Building your kit

06:00
5

Where You Should Invest Your Earnings

04:30
6

Will's Wedding Photography Kit

09:57
7

Choosing Your Business name

04:50
8

Action Item - Choose Your Name

00:25
9

How to build your Wedding photography package

06:58
10

Setting Your Wedding Photography Prices

10:16
11

How to Get Your First Clients

06:54
12

Talking with Clients

09:41
13

The Importance of Contracts

04:27
14

The Wedding business workflow

06:34
15

Good Accounting Practices

02:26
16

The philosophy of a well run business

03:38

Wedding Day Overview

17

Wedding Day Overview - Schedule of Common Events

13:32
18

Taking care of Business before the shooting day

02:37
19

Tips for working with a wedding coordinator

03:31
20

Action item - List out the key moments - Try to memorize

00:31
21

Know what you will be photographing ahead of time

02:23
22

Conclusion to section/ recap

01:32

How to Photograph a Wedding

23

Introduction - The meat of the course

01:11
24

Equipment checklist/ cleaning lenses and cameras

08:24
25

Do you need an Assistant/ 2nd shooter?

05:07
26

Being a second shooter

08:32
27

What to wear as a photographer

05:09
28

How to shoot: Getting Ready/ Hanging out

05:18
29

How to Shoot: Dress/ Rings/ Bride details

10:41
30

How to Shoot - Groom Portraits & Posing

09:11
31

How to shoot: Groomsman

12:51
32

How to shoot: Bride Portraits & Posing Interior

04:49
33

How to shoot: Bride Portraits & Posing Exterior

08:14
34

How to shoot Bridesmaids

12:56
35

How to shoot: First Look

03:28
36

How to Shoot: Posed Couples Portraits

06:34
37

How to shoot: Walking down the Aisle

10:17
38

How to shoot: Ceremony Coverage and vows / ring exchange

09:17
39

How to shoot: First kiss and walking out

05:39
40

How to shoot: Formal family and group Photos

12:26
41

Action Item: Save your fav pose

01:14
42

Action Item: Find inspiration

02:07
43

How to shoot: Reception intro and Grand entrance

01:34
44

How to shoot: Reception Details

04:55
45

How to shoot: Reception Speeches and toasts

04:41
46

How to shoot: Reception First Dance

06:23
47

How to shoot: Reception Bouquet and Garter toss

04:46
48

How to shoot: Reception Dancing and Partying

05:58
49

Recap of “How to shoot”

02:47

Editing Wedding Photos

50

Introduction to Editing Section

01:25
51

Photo applications and Profesional Apps

03:42
52

Organize, rate, and cull

28:21
53

Editing detail shots

31:42
54

Editing bride getting ready

29:23
55

Editing Demo: Editing Outdoor Ceremony

23:10
56

Editing single portraits

52:10
57

Editing Demo: Black and White editing

09:39
58

Editing Demo: Stylized Editing/ Finding your editing Style

12:20
59

Advice on how to edit hundreds of photos efficiently

06:01
60

Exporting your photos for client/ portfolio/ print

10:05
61

Delivering Digital images to your client

07:06

Succeeding with Wedding Photography

62

Intro to Succeeding in Wedding Photography

00:48
63

Being happy as a wedding photographer

07:05
64

Making it as a business and sticking with it

03:14
65

Getting Testimonials

01:35
66

Using Social Media and networking to expand business

02:08
67

How to deal with unhappy or difficult clients

04:37
68

Competing with mobile phones and family/ friend photographers

01:58
69

Working with other wedding vendors

03:16
70

Section conclusion

00:53

Conclusion

71

Thank you!

01:29

Lesson Info

Good Accounting Practices

Let's talk about good accounting practices and taxes. Now to start off, I am not a licensed taxed individual. So for wherever you are in the world, please make sure that you look up, understand or talk to someone who knows the tax laws in your space specific area. You need to take responsibility for your business and make sure that you are doing everything correctly. Um As far as it goes with taxes, for instance, where I am in the world, I don't necessarily need to charge sales tax unless I'm providing something physical and that's why all my wedding packages are service and their digital files. So find out what that means for your area where you're doing business. Now, that is a very good way to practice good, safe, smart accounting. The other thing to do is to vigorously keep track of money going out and money coming in. I would, would not rec could not recommend Quickbooks enough. I love using Quickbooks for money going in and going out and it keeps track of everything for me. Now i...

t is a bit expensive again. I feel like the investment in time in letting that application do everything I needed to do will allow me to do other things like be creative. But you can also just do that by hand on an Excel sheet on your computer. There are other apps that allow you to do that. The main thing is to know how much money you are making from weddings and how much money you are spending on equipment and food and travel and other things that have to do with your business. The more you keep track of this, the more easy it will be to expand later because as you start to get bigger weddings, you may need to hire a second shooter where you'll have to be paying money to them. You may be needing to purchase a second camera body or other lenses that you can write off. So you're not paying as much taxes during the year. The idea is that you must keep track of every single penny and dollar going out and going in. It is the best thing that you can do for yourself as you're starting your business. And again, like I said, even if it's just holding on the receipts and writing them down in an Excel sheet, um, you should just do this. It is just a good idea to be, uh, accountable for every single one of these things because it's good business practice and it will keep you safe later.

Class Materials

Bonus Downloads

Wedding_Photography_Key_Moments_List.pdf

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