Photo applications and Profesional Apps
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
Photo applications and Profesional Apps
So let's talk about photo editing apps specifically, there are a lot of different photo apps. I mean, there's the Adobe ones are probably going to be the most popular in general. Now, they do cost money. You can get a cheaper student discount or you can get sort of just the photo apps instead of the entire Adobe suite. For the purposes of this course, I'm going to be sticking with Adobe lightroom 95% of the time we will bounce into Photoshop for a couple of little detailed things. But just because of the pure volume of photos that we'll be editing lightroom or applications like like room where you can organize and mass apply edits or you can get to things faster, you can rate things is just going to be better for editing weddings. Way back in the day when I started doing wedding photography, there was only Photoshop and so you actually had to use, I think it was called Adobe Bridge to help you organize the photos. And there was times before we even had that where I was organizing just ...
files and going through them on finder. And in premiere, it was a total hassle. Photoshop itself is great. Obviously, like we love to use Photoshop and it is the gold standard for editing a single photo at a time. However, again, when you're editing wedding photos, you're editing like thousands, hundreds of photos going and running them through Photoshop is not going to be necessarily ideal for your workflow. Maybe if you're only delivering 1015 photos, it might be nice. But honestly, lightroom is going to be the best possible editing software that you can do. If you're going to be a full time professional wedding photographer. If you're using this as a hobby, you're doing it on the side, you're helping out friends. There are other applications that you can use. There are things like photo director um capture one DXO photo lab, a bunch of other little free apps. You could even probably get away with editing a few photos on your ipad or on your um mobile phone if you just use the in house native editor. So that being said, this section and whatever I'm going to be doing is going to be done through Lightroom or Photoshop just because that is in my eyes, the industry standard. And it's something that you should get used to all the editing capabilities as far as like, you know, adjusting curves or exposure or contrast, all the basic editing things are there and they do translate to other applications, which is really good. So it's good if you already have a base and a foundation for what editing a photo is like, even if you just open up your mobile phone, click, edit and go through and play with all the different sliders, just get a general idea of what all those do. It'd be great if you could get in the light room and do that yourself. Because if you already know how to do that and then you start to go through the next few lectures, you'll get more out of it. So that's the best thing I can give you as far as advice before you start taking these next few lectures. So let's get into it. Let's get ready. We're going to import all our photos into lightroom and we're going to start rating and calling and organizing before we get really deep into the editing. So if you're following along, make sure you have your photos that you're gonna use. If you want, get them onto your computer, get them ready to get into your computer. And um we're gonna open up light room and we're gonna get going. So let's start with organizing co and uh yeah, all the fun rating and stuff. Here we go.
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