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How to shoot: Reception Speeches and toasts

Lesson 45 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

How to shoot: Reception Speeches and toasts

Lesson 45 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

45. How to shoot: Reception Speeches and toasts

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: Reception Speeches and toasts

Now that we've gotten into the reception, chances are, uh, everyone had time to eat dinner and including yourself and your team. If you're part of a team and we've moved into, uh, toasts. Now, the dinner is something that you can shoot if you want to. Typically, this is the time that you should also be eating, refueling, drinking water, maybe sitting down for a hot second, um, to recover just a little bit, but keeping an eye and keeping an ear on when the hosts are coming because typically we'll have food and then they'll immediately get into the toasts or maybe the first dance was beforehand and then they'll get into dinner. Um, I found that dinner is really the best time to rest and, um, you know, gather your wits about yourself mostly because photos of people eating isn't anyone, anyone isn't anything anyone really wants. So you won't be needing to take photos of people eating, but you will need to be taking photos of the speeches which get very close. So if we take a look at back a...

t this wedding, we're outdoors and there is a really good shot. I got here of the bride and the groom during dinner, I think, you know, you listen for the like sort of clinging of glass for that kiss and you can kind of nail that with your 70 to 200. Let's see if that's what I used. Uh Yep, 7200 at F four at 200. Um I was able to get that with the timing and then with the speeches, the 7200 is probably the best lens for this situation. Um I didn't wanna go below 1 25th of a second. I'm at iso 505,000 here. Um My 7200 caps out at F four. If you have a 7202.8 that's probably a little bit better. They can get a little pricey. So I went for the cheaper one. Um It's also a little bit smaller and lighter. So that was helpful. The idea here is to, again, just get the moment, look for um the person giving the speech, uh look for their eyes to come up if you can. Um For instance, that one's a great one. This one I liked because both the bride and the groom are laughing. Um It's ok if you get backs of heads again, this is definitely more of a record keeping situation. Keep an eye out for moments like this, right? They're going to laugh, they're going to cry, they're going to have fun, they're going to enjoy these speeches. Um You can sort of find an area just to post up where you feel like you have a good shot of the bride and the groom alone. Um and the speech giver alone, but also um together and that's where the 70 to 200 these long zooms come in handy, right? This is at 100 and 15 millimeters. So I just zoomed out, whereas this is at the full length 200 I could punch in a little bit. Um This is also when it starts to get handy, having a full frame sensor because you'll get more light in and you can crop more later. Um That's something we should talk in uh online on photo and friends plus mirror, uh you know, full frame versus crop sensor. Um So then once they're gonna give you the speech, there's a few things that you need to be on top of, right, keep an eye out for the cleaning of glasses there. They should be raising a glass for the speech and this is always a good moment. But afterwards, something that I learned early on in my career is that there will be hugs after these speeches and these are really great moments to capture. So when they're done speaking and they've clinged their glass, do not put your camera down, keep it up and look for those moments and those hugs. So again, same thing here, right? Giving a speech, single person with the bride give in the background. She's clearly not impressed with this speech um alone uh again, smiling and laughing together. Um So you can see, I'm, I'm going back and forth between the two of them and the speech, the raising of glasses in a wide shot is always good. And then the hug. See, it's very, it's very much like clockwork. They go and they hug both people. Speeches are very predictable which is like really great that you can start to like wind down at this point. Um He had two people give speeches here, you can tell in this moment he was crying so much, he was laughing. Um And I really enjoyed having him in the background. No hug there. But yeah, speeches are very important. Big takeaway from this. Don't put your camera down when you think it's down until they've walked away using a 70 to 200. Uh is much easier for this kind of situation you don't wanna get in people's way, but you also wanna be able to get those photographs and then being able to jump from photos of the single speech giver them together with the couple in the background and then the couple by themselves is the ideal movement uh for these types of photos. So let's go on to the next lesson.

Class Materials

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Wedding_Photography_Key_Moments_List.pdf

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