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Making it as a business and sticking with it

Lesson 64 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

Making it as a business and sticking with it

Lesson 64 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

64. Making it as a business and sticking with it

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

Making it as a business and sticking with it

You can make it as a business and as a wedding photographer, you just have to stick with it and understand your value. Now, what do I mean by that? Sticking with it? First of all is something that requires patience. And I definitely had said this earlier and I will keep repeating it because I do believe that it is very important. I've been doing photos. I have been freelancing. I have owned my own business for uh you know, a full decade of owning my own business being a freelancer for almost two decades. I've been doing this for a very long time. So sometimes it may seem easy what I'm doing, but it has come with a lot of time and a lot of experience, a lot of failure, a lot of success and a lot of different situations. The thing about it is that you have to stick with that. This is not gonna happen overnight. You are going to have worries, you're going to not have clients, you're gonna worry when your next job is gonna come. But I can promise you that if you give it your all and you do...

all these things and you stay consistent with it. Things will start to snowball and add up over time. Part of my rule was originally that it takes a minimum year to make things work. Now, given the last few years when this class is recorded, it's become increasingly difficult when people are forced to stay inside, but it will change and it will get better. You just have to be patient and you have to work hard. I don't know who said this saying, but the saying was the harder I work. The luckier I get, it's very, very true. And with wedding photography, freelancing, entrepreneurship, a business, wedding photography know is a viable business, it can succeed. So we know that it will work but you have to put the time in and you have to do it. Something that helps with that is valuing yourself. A lot of times people wonder why do I have to pay so much for someone to come and take pictures? Well, they're not necessarily paying for the photos themselves. They're paying for the person behind the camera and their experience. You have to hold that value in you. You have to understand that what they are paying for is the education and the time that you have put in to learning how to take those photos and you are worth it just by you making it this far in the course, you have put so much time and effort into being not only a wedding photographer, but a successful business, human business person, you are worth all that money that they want to pay. And not only that on top of that, your creativity, your art is one of a kind and it is yours alone and there's no one else like it. And that's why there's so many different photographers and we can all be successful because we all carry something different and unique in us, especially creatively. So if you add in your creativeness, your artistic vision, who you are uniquely as a person and you add in all the time and money and effort and education that you put into that and combine those, you're worth it all. So remember that when you go in, you are important and you are a wonderful photographer and business owner and you can be successful, the only person that's gonna help you out and the only person that's gonna stop you is yourself.

Class Materials

Bonus Downloads

Wedding_Photography_Key_Moments_List.pdf

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