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How to shoot: First Look

Lesson 35 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

How to shoot: First Look

Lesson 35 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

35. How to shoot: First Look

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

How to shoot: First Look

So here we are at the first look, I've got the groom here, his back is towards the direction that the bride will come from. Now, the important things to remember here when shooting a first look are reactions and the bride herself. So what we're going to do as a single shooter is I'm gonna walk you through how to do this because it does get a little bit complicated if you had a second shooter, um it would be much easier because you can have two looks at the same time. But as a single shooter, this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna have the group room back facing where the bride's gonna come. I'm gonna go over there and shoot his face as she's walking up. So we'll be able to see both his face and her face. We're gonna come out, we're gonna shoot a wide of the two of them and then we're actually gonna flip sides so that when we have him turn around, we get his reaction because that's what we're trying to get. So let's go ahead and see how that works and I'll show you the photos. So let'...

s start with coming over here. Hello sir. You ready to see your bride for the first time? So I'm gonna start with taking a photo of our groom just smiling, looking in the camera. There it is. I'm gonna step to the side and now I'll be able to see both of them and I can switch focus between the two smile, Danielle, big smiles. There you go. And we can see that this is, this is kind of the classic shot. And what a really fun thing to do is while you have a lot of light is to actually shoot at a higher F stop. So if you shoot at an F 11, we'll be able to get both of them in focus just enough to make us see what is happening. And I just want the biggest cheesiest smile from you James. If you can do it, there, it is great. All right, I'm gonna go back to an F 28. So get that cool out of focus. Look. And now Danielle slowly walk up very good. In fact, you can just keep walking, keep walking, keep walking. Get within arm's distance of him. Very good. That's good. Stop right there. Do not turn around. Now, I'm gonna come around and I'm gonna shoot this two shot of them with, with what is about to happen. Big smiles, the two of you, you're looking great and, and now I'm gonna come around this side and when he turns around, I'm gonna ask him to turn around to his right. Don't do it yet. I'm gonna ask him to turn around to his right. And I'm gonna be here ready to photograph his look and he'll probably sometimes step back or he'll start crying or he'll try and grab at her. We don't know, but you have to be prepared to see what's going to happen. So we're gonna start there and then I'm gonna, after that happens, I'm gonna run back around here to get a shot of the two of them so I can get her reaction as well. Are you guys ready? So James don't do it yet, but Danielle's gonna tap you on your right shoulder and you're gonna turn around in that direction and see her for the first time. Daniel, go ahead. Fantastic. Beautiful. And you guys can hug for me. Yeah. No kissing though. Thank you. Fantastic. Great. So that worked out great. Now, if I had a second shooter, I would have stayed on this side and I would have had the other shooter doing this way or the other reaction and we try to not get in each other's way and it's much easier when you have two people filming this. Great. You guys are great. So let's go ahead and do some couple photos.

Class Materials

Bonus Downloads

Wedding_Photography_Key_Moments_List.pdf

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