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Wedding Photography 3: Setting Up Your Business

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Overview

Wedding photography is an amazing side business or full-time career. On average, wedding photographers make $3,000 per wedding. Some charge $10,000 or more per wedding. Every business has to start somewhere. In this course, we’ll show you exactly how to set up your wedding photography business from building a website and branding to putting together packages and getting your first client.

If you're interested in using your photo skills to make people happy (and make money), this is a great course for you! We recommend taking the other courses in this series - How to Shoot a Wedding and Posing a Couple for Wedding or Engagement Shoot - for a complete education in Wedding Photography.

Syllabus

  • Course Introduction
  • Project: Pick a Company Name
  • What type of wedding photographer are you?
  • Equipment you need to get started
  • What camera brand is the best?
  • Where should you buy camera equipment?
  • Picking a name for your company
  • Launching a Website
  • Creating wedding photography packages
  • Pricing for success
  • How to get your first client
  • The importance of contract
  • The wedding photographer philosophy
  • Taking care of business on the wedding day
  • Overview of what to photograph
  • Wedding day equipment check
  • Wedding day considerations - day vs nigh
  • Do you need an assistant or second shooter
  • How much to pay a second shooter
  • Scheduling the wedding day
  • Intro to success
  • Being happy - Tips from a wedding photographer
  • Making it a business and sticking to it
  • Building out your portfolio
  • Dealing with saturated photography markets
  • Competing with the family photographers for jobs
  • Working with other vendors for success
  • Using social networks to expand your business
  • Testimonilas - Yelp, Wedding Wire, The Knot
  • Thank You

Taught by

Phil Ebiner

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