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Working with other wedding vendors

Lesson 69 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

Working with other wedding vendors

Lesson 69 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

69. Working with other wedding vendors

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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

Working with other wedding vendors

You are not the only one hired to be at this wedding. There are plenty of other wedding vendors at the wedding that you'll be shooting at from the food people to the coordinator to the V the venue. People. There are tons of other vendors and you are all technically working on the same team. The best practice is to be polite and courteous and talk to them. Communication is so important, especially because you are all trying to achieve the same thing. You're all there to work, you're all there to make sure that the day goes smoothly and you're all there to help each other really. So being polite is one thing. Second thing is to talk to them. I love talking to wedding vendors, especially like the DJ s or the coordinators on, you know, have they worked together before? How long have they known the couple? How did their process go in your quick downtime? Making small talk is really good because it builds a little bit of team connectivity. Having to be buddies with the DJ is really helpful b...

ecause a lot of times they'll give you a heads up or they'll find you before something starts and that will help you be a better photographer. It's also really cool. Sometimes I'll go around and I'll take photos of the other vendors exchange contact information so that you can then provide them with a really nice professional photo because we all need photos for our businesses and they will have your contact information for potentially another job if you can start to build a network of other wedding vendors that aren't just photographers. It's another avenue of getting more work, especially if you're in a small town and you guys all start working together. Now, a very specific wedding vendor that you may be working with more so than others is a videographer. Now, whether that's yourself or another person, you have to really work in tandem with the videographer. It depends on what they've been hired to do. So again, talking to them either before the wedding or at the wedding in the morning is a really good way to communicate with them to decide who's going to be sort of taking the lead at certain times. Often I have seen that most of the time the photographer becomes the primary visual artist there and the videographer can kind of step aside. But a lot of times I will talk to the videographer and tell them, hey, I got my shot. Do you want me to keep them here? Is there something else you would like to do now would be the time and that has a really good way of building trust between you and the videographer because when it gets down to it, they will do the same thing. If something else comes up, they will make sure that you are there. And uh you both get the shot working in tandem is a really good thing for that because video is a little bit more variable. Right. There's so many more variables for the videographer. They have to worry about constant light, they have to worry about movement, they have to worry about audio and you can kind of just sneak in there and take a photo. But traditionally the wedding photographer has been around in weddings for so much longer and typically there's gonna be a photographer there before there's a videographer. So finding that balance and relationship with a videographer is very important, treat them with respect, share, let them know that you are willing to like work with them to bring them in, make sure that you get what you need to get because you are there to do a specific job.

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