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Taking care of Business before the shooting day

Lesson 18 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

Taking care of Business before the shooting day

Lesson 18 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

18. Taking care of Business before the shooting day

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

Taking care of Business before the shooting day

We talked about this beforehand, but I just want to reiterate, taking care of business on the wedding day is not necessarily the best thing to do. We wanna make sure that we have dotted all our I's crossed all our ts and we've taken care of as much business before the wedding day, the day, the wedding should be reserved for taking photos and interacting with your couple in a creative and fun way. We should not be worrying about signing contracts or negotiating or doing any of those kind of things on the day of because there's really no need to, you will have had plenty of time beforehand to figure this out. And the only kind of piece of business is to know whom is paying you towards the end of the day. I know I spoke about this earlier, but it is a really good idea to understand who will be giving you the final payment on the day of the wedding. So there's no questioning it. It's a very easy question to ask your couple before the wedding day. So they're not stressed out about it and yo...

u can do it very easily. Hey, um who do you think will be giving me the final payment on the day of the wedding? And they'll figure it out. And that way there's no worry about it. I'd like to tell you a small story. I did have one problem at one wedding one time over 15 to 20 years where it became a mess. It was the end of the night. I had not figured out who was supposed to give me the final payment. And I, uh, the bride and groom had actually left, we shot the grand exit and they had left the building, they had left the premises. So I went to the maid of honor and asked her who would be giving me the final payment. She didn't know. And now I had to start bouncing to all these different people at the wedding till I finally got to, uh, a father and a mother of, I believe the groom and they had no idea that anyone was supposed to pay me. So at that point, I didn't know quite what to do, especially because at that point, everyone at the end of the night was exhausted. They're tired. Maybe they had a little bit to drink. Um, it's hard to make sure that you get paid and I didn't want to have to leave without getting paid. Someone eventually showed up with a check and everything worked out, but you never know. Um, when something like that's gonna happen, it's not something to be totally stressed out about because you do have all their photos and you can talk to them later about it. It's not like you'd hold them hostage about getting paid, but you do have that leverage if you need it. It's just helpful to make sure to take care of that stuff beforehand. So there's no problems and it's very easy. Again, this goes back to running a clean and efficient business dotting all your, I's crossing all your ts making sure everything is in place and you know what's going on, good communication with you and your clients.

Class Materials

Bonus Downloads

Wedding_Photography_Key_Moments_List.pdf

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