How to shoot: Reception Dancing and Partying
Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan
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: Reception Dancing and Partying
OK. So if you've been hired this long for this wedding, at this point, we've gotten into the uh part of the reception that is partying and dancing. Um And that means everybody, I'd say eight times out of 10, I'm usually cut loose at this point, right? They don't necessarily wanna pay to someone to shoot the dancing and whatnot, but sometimes I do on the bigger weddings where I'm doing a 12 hour wedding, I'll probably end up having to stay the entire time uh during the dancing. Now, typically, like you're gonna be exhausted of shooting this after like 20 minutes. Um And nothing is gonna change if all the things are done other than the grand exit, if they have one, the dancing is gonna be the same for the next two hours hour, three hours, nothing really is gonna be any different. Um So you can tell your couple if they want you to, to take photos of dancing and partying that you could stay for maybe 2030 minutes and nothing will be any different other than people will be sweatier and prob...
ably a little bit more intoxicated. So let's take an example. Though, during the dancing things are gonna be dark, there's gonna be maybe stage lighting, it's gonna be loud. So this is when, um, I would recommend having maybe some earplugs because you might get stuck, uh, very close to a P A or a speaker, um, where the best shot may be and it's just gonna kill your ear drums. So the best thing is to remember about that. Um I'm always gonna end up using probably only one camera for this and that's gonna be the main camera with the 24 to 70 probably most definitely my diffuser on top of my flash um on camera. So if we go through here, this is exactly what I'm using here, right? I'm following the groom around using the diffuser finding a good place for it. And let's look at the settings. This is taken at 1 24 a 3200 iso along with um a 1/8 of a 1/80 of a shutter and my flash is firing. Usually I'm let's see if it says here and it doesn't really say, but usually um I am using my flash, it says it didn't fire, but it's definitely using my flash to fire on manual mode on my flash around an eighth of a power, sometimes a quarter of a power depending on how bright or how big the room is in this sense. It's nice that I can just focus on uh on the groom and him running around. Now these shots are fun, right? It's more for record keeping. They don't need to be super interesting or super artsy or composed all crazy. They just need to accomplish um telling a story and knowing what's happening around and seeing some faces even with this a little out of focus and a little bit motion, it's still very fun and interesting. Um Having the flash is nice because we can see the faces and it will freeze and focus them. Um A lot of times I'll hold, I'll hold my camera up above people and shoot down. Um One that's more flattering and two, you can kind of get up and get faces if you start to bob and weave through the crowd, it's not necessarily like um good on your flash and you won't get the most interesting shots. So holding it up, especially when people get into big groups, having the camera up above everyone. If there's a live band, getting coverage of that is great. Um Looking for people that may recognize you that take a moment or just waving at them and taking a picture. Um You'll get moments like this. This is a really good shot too if you can go around and take pictures of the couple with their friends. Um Again, this is a really great reason for using a diffuser on a flash, right? The skin tones are nice. The light is even um it's not totally blown out but we're not losing anything. Um in particular, same thing just following, following our our bride and groom around looking for really fun, interesting things like this jacket. Um And you know, noticing couples dancing is always fun to shoot, they're gonna wanna see those in the future and then keeping an eye. This is a really good example of me moving my hand up over the dancing and taking a photo um of them. And then again, more group shots, this is a little harder and I can tell um already like the focus was a little rough. Um getting everyone to focus because they're on different levels. But having the flash really helped a lot and having the versatility of the 24 to 70 moving in and out the 7200 wouldn't be a great lens in this situation because it's a little too far, especially if you're using your flash. Um You don't wanna overpower and blind people. So using your flash at full power at 70 uh might be a little aggressive again finding moments uh getting the band um including the band with the bride and groom is always a plus and uh and working your way through. And I and I can tell you like we just went through all the dancing photos I took for this wedding. This is a travel destination wedding. So you can see I was done about, I don't know a third of the way through the partying and dancing because they didn't need those photos. They wanted a little bit of, of record keeping. But um nothing, uh nothing where it's like the entire night. Um That doesn't, you know, it's not the same for all weddings. Um But II, I like to tell the bride and groom at the beginning before we shoot that we don't need to be there for, you know, multiple hours of you guys just dancing. In fact, sometimes it's kind of nice that the photographer has left and people can just relax and not worry about being photographed sometimes. Um But yeah, so main takeaways from this flash is very important. 24 to 70 is very important. A camera with a higher iso you could get away without a flash uh most likely and then just blending in with the crowd changing levels as far as like where you're taking the photos from and looking for situations with your bride and your groom. Um where they might be just alone or interacting with their guests is always a good thing too.
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