How to Shoot: Posed Couples Portraits
Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan
Lesson Info
36. How to Shoot: Posed Couples Portraits
Lessons
What this course is about and how to succeed
01:48 2Why you should become a wedding photographer
01:32 3Business Section Intro
00:28 4Building your kit
06:00 5Where You Should Invest Your Earnings
04:30 6Will's Wedding Photography Kit
09:57Choosing Your Business name
04:50 8Action Item - Choose Your Name
00:25 9How to build your Wedding photography package
06:58 10Setting Your Wedding Photography Prices
10:16 11How to Get Your First Clients
06:54 12Talking with Clients
09:41 13The Importance of Contracts
04:27 14The Wedding business workflow
06:34 15Good Accounting Practices
02:26 16The philosophy of a well run business
03:38 17Wedding Day Overview - Schedule of Common Events
13:32 18Taking care of Business before the shooting day
02:37 19Tips for working with a wedding coordinator
03:31 20Action item - List out the key moments - Try to memorize
00:31 21Know what you will be photographing ahead of time
02:23 22Conclusion to section/ recap
01:32 23Introduction - The meat of the course
01:11 24Equipment checklist/ cleaning lenses and cameras
08:24 25Do you need an Assistant/ 2nd shooter?
05:07 26Being a second shooter
08:32 27What to wear as a photographer
05:09 28How to shoot: Getting Ready/ Hanging out
05:18 29How to Shoot: Dress/ Rings/ Bride details
10:41 30How to Shoot - Groom Portraits & Posing
09:11 31How to shoot: Groomsman
12:51 32How to shoot: Bride Portraits & Posing Interior
04:49 33How to shoot: Bride Portraits & Posing Exterior
08:14 34How to shoot Bridesmaids
12:56 35How to shoot: First Look
03:28 36How to Shoot: Posed Couples Portraits
06:34 37How to shoot: Walking down the Aisle
10:17 38How to shoot: Ceremony Coverage and vows / ring exchange
09:17 39How to shoot: First kiss and walking out
05:39 40How to shoot: Formal family and group Photos
12:26 41Action Item: Save your fav pose
01:14 42Action Item: Find inspiration
02:07 43How to shoot: Reception intro and Grand entrance
01:34 44How to shoot: Reception Details
04:55 45How to shoot: Reception Speeches and toasts
04:41 46How to shoot: Reception First Dance
06:23 47How to shoot: Reception Bouquet and Garter toss
04:46 48How to shoot: Reception Dancing and Partying
05:58 49Recap of “How to shoot”
02:47 50Introduction to Editing Section
01:25 51Photo applications and Profesional Apps
03:42 52Organize, rate, and cull
28:21 53Editing detail shots
31:42 54Editing bride getting ready
29:23 55Editing Demo: Editing Outdoor Ceremony
23:10 56Editing single portraits
52:10 57Editing Demo: Black and White editing
09:39 58Editing Demo: Stylized Editing/ Finding your editing Style
12:20 59Advice on how to edit hundreds of photos efficiently
06:01 60Exporting your photos for client/ portfolio/ print
10:05 61Delivering Digital images to your client
07:06 62Intro to Succeeding in Wedding Photography
00:48 63Being happy as a wedding photographer
07:05 64Making it as a business and sticking with it
03:14 65Getting Testimonials
01:35 66Using Social Media and networking to expand business
02:08 67How to deal with unhappy or difficult clients
04:37 68Competing with mobile phones and family/ friend photographers
01:58 69Working with other wedding vendors
03:16 70Section conclusion
00:53 71Thank you!
01:29Lesson Info
How to Shoot: Posed Couples Portraits
So I got the two of them here. They're so happy to see each other because we've had our first look already. Chances are your couple has not seen each other for a few hours. So they're gonna be quite chatty. So we're gonna start with the couple poses without the bouquet. And I think this is the best way to start, especially out in the field. We're not gonna be uh using any objects. This is just strictly out in the field, how to pose their bodies together. So let's go ahead and we'll take the bouquet away and then we'll instruct them on how to uh run through multiple poses very quickly. All right, I'm gonna take this from you and I hand that to my lovely assistant. So I still have them in the shade. I'm gonna start with them sort of apart and then we're gonna work our way to getting closer and closer and closer. So this is exactly how I want you guys. So hands either in front or behind. Yeah, facing me. Look, they're already naturally doing things. Actually, I'm gonna move this way, Sam,...
can you guys just uh like rotate like that. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. And you're looking right at me. Beautiful head on shoulder. That's great. Natural. No, it's very good. Now, if you guys could just face each other, don't put your arms are, aren't, don't touch each other just facing each other. Very good. Awesome. That's beautiful. Now, if you guys can just hold hands across from each other, kinda like kinda like that. Yeah. Perfect and looking right at each other. Big smiles. You guys are getting married. This is beautiful. What a beautiful day. Awesome. OK. Now, if both of now, if both of you could look at me. Yeah, hold your hands. Keep the pose. Both of you look at me. Now, uh Danielle, keep looking at me, James, look at her the other way, James. Look at her. There you go. Daniel looking at me. Awesome. Now let's switch that. Danielle. Look at James. James, look at me. Beautiful. You guys are doing great. Cool. What's really funny about this is like while you're posing them since they haven't seen each other all morning, they're gonna have their own interactions and it's good to remember to take photos while they're just hanging out because you never know what's gonna pop up. You can see they're already naturally laughing. You have to be ready to go with your f your focus and your trigger finger very quickly. All right. So now I'm gonna do the same thing with the bouquet. All right. So the same thing. Shoulder to shoulder. If you guys can face me, don't hold them just shoulder shoulder. Yeah, both hands on. Ok. Perfect up like that. Fantastic. Yeah, I like I like doing this because it feels like classic. No smiles and then smiles, big smiles, cheesy smiles. Now, look at each other. Thank you. That was beautiful. Awesome. Ok. Now we're gonna take the bouquet away. You can see that there's a natural laughing order to this thing. It becomes a little bit of awkwardness. You can remember that these are not models, they are a couple getting married on what is for them? One of the more important days of their lives. And uh you just gotta find those natural instincts of laughing and things like that. So um let's do a couple others where uh so Daniel, can you put your arms around his neck? You guys can face each other. Your arms are and then uh your hands are on her side like that. Exactly. And just looking right at each other. Cute, cute, beautiful. We saw the first date video. Now we are getting married. Beautiful looking at each other. Now, Danielle, can you put your hand your head on his chest just naturally? Yeah. Just how does that feel? Just do it naturally. There you go. Beautiful. Look down at her for me, James. Awesome big smiles. Both of you. Can you look up at him for me? Awesome. Cute. That's very good. Ok. Now if, um, you can get in front of him and can you put your hands around her? I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna say it and see what happens. How, how do you feel comfortable? Um, no, because he's pretty tall. So that's good. Your faces are close to each, to each other. Big smiles. Awesome. And if you could look up at him for me, I know it's awkward. All right. Yeah. Take your heels off and do that same thing. If you don't mind standing in the grass, I slept in an acorn. Wow, let's really make sure. Ok, looking back up at him, look down at her for me. Look at each other. Cute. Fantastic. All right, cool. How do you feel about, uh, running without heels? Just like a real quick. So what I want you to do is, is uh leapfrog with each other. So I want you to take a few, not actual leapfrog, but like, so like if give me your hand, so I'm gonna stand stop and then you go forward, keep running and then pull him forward like that. And then I collect that. You do that. But let's start back here. So I have this little trick where we're gonna have them sort of pull each other. Each, they stop, they pull, they stop the pull and what this does, it gives them a ton of motion and uh, we're gonna try and see what happens. So here we go. You guys ready? Alright. Go for it. You go so like move forward, pull her up but keep your ground. Yeah. And then when you get to me just go both of you go around me. No take your don't don't close line me just go around me. All right whenever you're ready. Yeah. So typically I would do that a little bit longer. Maybe have them go a little further back but you see we got a couple of really fun images here. It's good to have your camera on burst mode. Maybe we do that one more time if your feet are OK with that. OK, we're gonna do it one more time. We're gonna set them a little further back and we're gonna do a little bit of burst mode. There you go. So, so yeah, just pull, pull your partner, pull your partner, stand your ground, pull your partner, let them pull, you stand on the ground. But let you know you still have to get pulled. OK, whenever you're ready. Yeah, that was much better. So, more distance. A little bit more pulling and pushing. We got some really fun photos here. Oh, yeah. Fantastic. So that there we go. There's some good quick posing for couples.
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