The Beginners Guide to Wedding Photography

What you’ll learn:
How to Get Started
A simple step by step explanation of how to get started in Wedding Photography. How to ‘assist’ and become an apprentice, building up your portfolio & sample books to showcase to potential couples and clients, contracts, costing and creating your price lists & packages.

Equipment & Gear
This is one of your major investments in your business. You cannot afford to buy the wrong equipment and waste your cash. Why you need additional camera bodies and a variety of lenses to photograph a wedding. What kind of editing & post-processing software you will require to help you streamline your workflow

The Business
Getting the basics and foundation right is critical for the success of any business. You’ll learn setting up your contracts, legal documents, price lists & products, equipment, camera, lenses, software. You’ll also see and learn how to handle enquiries, sending quotations, bookings, sales and purchases, how to create a workflow so you will never forget your tasks and much, much more.

Branding, Advertising & Marketing
You’ll learn how to ‘brand’ yourself and your company. Why branding is so important, how to advertise your business through magazines, bridal fairs, online and Google. You’ll also learn some very handy tips and tricks on how to turbo charge your website and blog so you get indexed in search results above your competitors for free traffic.

Story Telling Part I
You need to document a complete and beautiful story of someone’s best day of their lives. It is a challenge to capture those important moments each and every time without having to be lucky! This means, photographing consistently great images all day long. You’ll learn Oz’s shooting process as to how you can shoot a wedding to capture those magical moments for your clients.

Story Telling Part II
You’ll see how to shoot a wedding right from the bridal preparations up to the first dance, getting the ‘safe’ shots in the bag first and also creating some masterpieces along the way.
Off-camera flash
A flashgun is one of the most creative tools in your kit bag, use it right and you will achieve results like you’ve never achieved before. Oz is truly a master at off-camera flash. He will share with you all his secrets on how to set up and shoot incredible images that have the ‘wow’ factor. You will truly be inspired to get started with off-camera flash.

Editing, Post-Processing & Workflow
A lot of photographers waste too much time in front of the computer. There is a very fine line between making a profit or a loss. You will learn some very simple editing, post-processing workflow tips & tricks which will save your hours on end in front of the computer.