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Where You Should Invest Your Earnings

Lesson 5 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

Where You Should Invest Your Earnings

Lesson 5 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

5. Where You Should Invest Your Earnings

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

Where You Should Invest Your Earnings

So while we're talking about spending money on gear, we have to talk about the sort of philosophy behind that, right? I mentioned that earlier investing in yourself. If you really think that you are going to be a wedding photographer, this is a dream that you're going to be as your full time gig. I think it's time to think about investing in yourself. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that all your money needs to go into equipment and gear, you need to have the minimum gear to shoot a wedding, but you're also going to need a website, you're going to need a laptop or a computer to process all your or your photos, you're going to need the correct outfit for what you're going to wear. You're going to need a lot of different things. You're gonna need a business license, potentially. Um You have to think about investing in yourself as a wedding photographer. So if you're doing this on the side and you don't have a ton of money to get going start small, make sure you have the equipment, tha...

t's the, the bare minimum, make sure you have the equipment to shoot a wedding next, you're gonna need to be able to share what you're shooting on a website or on social media. So the high level of investment here is mostly in your equipment, not necessarily the social media yet and the website minimal costs, but you're gonna need to do it as you move out from there. You're gonna want to think about maybe a client based website, something like Zen Folio where you can share your photos with your clients. Well, you can start thinking about more equipment. You can start thinking about a faster computer. You can start thinking about all the little intricate things that will help you in your business. Now, if you have the money, it's really great to start investing right away in all these things. If you know it's gonna be a thing. But if you don't have the money and you need to start small, like I said, just focus on having the right equipment to shoot the wedding. Well, that is where you need to start and you can start building up right? Every wedding you take on where you make money, start putting a little bit more money into savings, start putting a little bit more money back into your website or back into something that helps push your business. You don't want to forget that you are an investment in yourself and you have to grow. If you don't put money back into your business, you're going to stay stagnant and it's possible that you may not grow and you may not get more clients. It's possible to not put any more money into your, uh business than what you already have done or you've already started. But I think it's worth putting in, uh the money in places that will either make you more confident as a photographer, more creative as a photographer or let it automate certain things. For instance, I had a, a long time, I was trying to avoid putting money into a sort of client management app. I really wasn't feeling like I needed to and I finally did, it was like, I forgot what the, what the starting cost was. It was like 25 or $30 a month. But as soon as I did it automates contracts, it automates uh notes it automates schedules, like everything it does has allowed me to take the time that I would have spent organizing that and put it back into editing photos, reaching out to clients being on social media. So balancing the investment of money and time and how that correlates to your own time and the time that you can invest in yourself as a business and a photographer is important and you need to find that balance for yourself. Once I was able to have a site where I can just click a quote, send a contract, it connects to an email. I don't have to. It all happens within 10 minutes. Whereas before I was custom making contracts, I was custom making emails. I was custom making schedules and the administration part of my business was taking up so much more time and it's honestly not something I like doing. So investing in the things that help you get back to the part of wedding photography that you love, I think is very important and you need to discover for yourself. What are the things that I love about wedding photography in the business? And what are the things that I'm not too excited about? I don't know, any wedding photographer that is excited about every single process in the thing. You know, you either love editing or you love shooting or you love the whole creative process or you love the organization and accounting money coming in, dealing with contracts or maybe that's not the part you like or maybe you don't like going out and getting clients. So invest more money in the parts that you don't necessarily like to do and see if you can automate those things. See if you can find tools that will help you make those things easier for you. So then you can enjoy and spend your time on the things that you do love to do.

Class Materials

Bonus Downloads

Wedding_Photography_Key_Moments_List.pdf

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