Wedding Photography 3: Setting Up Your Business

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Free Online Course: Wedding Photography 3: Setting Up Your Business provided by Skillshare is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Wedding Photography 3: Setting Up Your Business is taught by Phil Ebiner.

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