Good Accounting Practices
Lesson 15 from: Getting Started with Wedding PhotographyPhilip Ebiner, Will Carnahan
Good Accounting Practices
Lesson 15 from: Getting Started with Wedding PhotographyPhilip Ebiner, Will Carnahan
Lessons
Introduction
1What this course is about and how to succeed
01:48 2Why you should become a wedding photographer
01:32Starting Your Wedding Photography Business
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
03:38Wedding Day Overview
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
01:32How to Photograph a Wedding
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”
02:47Editing Wedding Photos
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
07:06Succeeding with Wedding Photography
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
00:53Conclusion
71Thank you!
01:29Lesson Info
Good Accounting Practices
Let's talk about good accounting practices and taxes. Now to start off, I am not a licensed taxed individual. So for wherever you are in the world, please make sure that you look up, understand or talk to someone who knows the tax laws in your space specific area. You need to take responsibility for your business and make sure that you are doing everything correctly. Um As far as it goes with taxes, for instance, where I am in the world, I don't necessarily need to charge sales tax unless I'm providing something physical and that's why all my wedding packages are service and their digital files. So find out what that means for your area where you're doing business. Now, that is a very good way to practice good, safe, smart accounting. The other thing to do is to vigorously keep track of money going out and money coming in. I would, would not rec could not recommend Quickbooks enough. I love using Quickbooks for money going in and going out and it keeps track of everything for me. Now i...
t is a bit expensive again. I feel like the investment in time in letting that application do everything I needed to do will allow me to do other things like be creative. But you can also just do that by hand on an Excel sheet on your computer. There are other apps that allow you to do that. The main thing is to know how much money you are making from weddings and how much money you are spending on equipment and food and travel and other things that have to do with your business. The more you keep track of this, the more easy it will be to expand later because as you start to get bigger weddings, you may need to hire a second shooter where you'll have to be paying money to them. You may be needing to purchase a second camera body or other lenses that you can write off. So you're not paying as much taxes during the year. The idea is that you must keep track of every single penny and dollar going out and going in. It is the best thing that you can do for yourself as you're starting your business. And again, like I said, even if it's just holding on the receipts and writing them down in an Excel sheet, um, you should just do this. It is just a good idea to be, uh, accountable for every single one of these things because it's good business practice and it will keep you safe later.
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