Working with other wedding vendors
Lesson 69 from: Getting Started with Wedding PhotographyPhilip Ebiner, Will Carnahan
Working with other wedding vendors
Lesson 69 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
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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