Mastering Digital Wedding Photography

Description

Mastering Digital Wedding Photography serves as a practical guide to the unique art, craft, and business of wedding photography in the digital realm. Succeeding as a wedding photographer requires more than the ability to take excellent pictures under pressure. You must also develop a solid business and marketing plan that makes you stand out from the crowd in this highly competitive industry. This book addresses each of these fundamental skills. You will conquer hands-on techniques for the shooting of documentary events, making great portraits quickly, and maximizing the quality of your images after they have been captured. You?ll also cover the essential topics of workflow and file management and important marketing techniques that will expand your services and grow your business. Whether you are a novice photographer, a seasoned professional adding weddings to your assignment list, or a film photographer transitioning to the digital realm, Mastering Digital Wedding Photography will help you develop the skills you need to capture the magic of each wedding you photograph.

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: The Once and Future Wedding Photographer

Chapter 2: Business First

Chapter 3: Equipment Matters

Chapter 4: It Is Digital Photography - Computers and Software

Chapter 5: The Wedding Photographer and the Web

Chapter 6: Preliminaries: Booking the Event

Chapter 7: Getting Ready for the Big Day

Chapter 8: Photographic Technique: The Gateway to Style

Chapter 9: The Big Day; Photographing More Than Just a Wedding

Chapter 10: Photographing the Main Event

Chapter 11: Making the Formals Creative and Fun

Chapter 12: The Other Wedding Party, Covering the Reception

Chapter 13: After the Wedding - ]All Those Pictures!

Chapter 14: Images into Pictures, the Art of Image Processing

Chapter 15: Crafting the Image

Chapter 16: Proofing, Selling, and Printing

Chapter 17: Multimedia Marriages, DVDs, and the Electronic Album

Chapter 18: Albums Demystified

Chapter 19: After the Honeymoon

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