PROFESSIONAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY

This course is aimed at existing professional and those aspiring to become professional wedding photographers.

Graham will use his experience of 30 years in photographing weddings to take you through not just the picture taking but also the business side of running a wedding photography studio along with image manipulation with Adobe Photoshop.

Additionally we will look at new and exciting ways of selling your images from Story Book albums, Reportage styles through to traditional albums, framing, reprints etc. We will also demonstrate how you can use Malcolm Mathieson's (one of Australia's top portrait photographers) exciting template system to improve sales from images captured at weddings.

This course can be taken in 3 stages, although we advise you to take all three stages in one course.

Day one we will be looking at the business side of running a successful wedding photography studio, including promoting, marketing, advertising, managing the day etc..

Day two will be a practical day working with models on location at a local church and/or hotel. We will look at posing, using your surroundings to the best, capturing informal and reportage style images, organisation, dealing with guests etc. How to use available light in the church to your advantage. Fill in flash and reflectors. Time management and keeping control of the day. Images taken can be downloaded and assessed, providing suitable iamges for your portfolio. There will be limited opportunity to look at the basics of Adobe Photoshop and image manipulation.

Continued on next page .....