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CreativeLive

Creative Wedding Photography

via CreativeLive

Overview

Prepare for a new career with $100 off Coursera Plus
Gear up for jobs in high-demand fields: data analytics, digital marketing, and more.

Join award-winning wedding photographer Susan Stripling for a 3-day journey through the world of artistic, compelling, and financially successful creative wedding photography.

Throughout this course, you’ll explore lighting, posing, capturing detail, and much more. Susan will simplify the potentially daunting process of selecting the right equipment for every wedding’s needs. You’ll learn about transforming poorly-lit or visually uninteresting wedding settings into picturesque images.

Susan will also guide you through the workflow she uses, and explain the composition principles that result in dynamic images. You’ll explore concrete, on-the-fly troubleshooting strategies for unexpected wedding events.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the tools you need to think on your feet while photographing every phase of a wedding, with jaw-dropping results.

Syllabus

  • Introduction and Gear
  • More Lenses and Accessories
  • Gear Q&A
  • Indoor Lighting
  • Outdoor Lighting
  • Lighting Q&A
  • Unusual Angles and Framing
  • Image Space and Leading Lines
  • Background, Stories, and Moments
  • Shoot: Getting Ready - Rings
  • Shoot: Getting Ready - Details
  • Shoot: Getting Ready - Hair and Makeup
  • Shoot: Getting Ready - The Dress
  • Shoot: Getting Ready - Portraits with the Veil
  • Shoot: Ceremony - Processionals
  • Shoot: Ceremony - Family Formals
  • Ceremony Q&A
  • Outdoor Shoot: Portraits with Flash
  • Outdoor Shoot: Natural Light
  • Outdoor Shoot: Shooting into the Sun
  • Outdoor Shoot Q&A
  • Shoot: Reception - Details
  • Shoot: Reception - Toasts
  • Shoot: Reception - First Dance
  • Reception Q&A
  • Introduction to Post-Production Workflow
  • Workflow with Sidecar Post
  • Client Communication
  • Finances
  • Finances Q&A
  • Photo Contest Winners
  • Marketing
  • Final Q&A

Taught by

Susan Stripling

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