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Fast 5: Unique Couples Photography at Any Location

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jul 10Categories: Fast 5, Wedding Lighting, Wedding Photography Ideas No Comments
Unique Couples Photography at Any Location

ShootDotEdit’s Fast Five — 5 useful quick tips you can apply to your photography business right now!

As a wedding photographer, you’ve probably Googled ‘best photo location near me’ many times when looking for unique backgrounds for your couples. It can be a challenge — finding the perfect spot. It’s also a challenge finding the perfect spots you haven’t already used for other clients…

You don’t want to fill your portfolio with different couples all in the same poses at the same locations. Plus, your clients often want shots that are unique to them and their love. So how do you find those new and amazing photo locations (or use familiar spots in new and exciting ways)?

Find out in this week’s Fast 5! 

Let’s get to it!

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How to Build Trust with Wedding Vendors

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jul 07Categories: How to Become a Photographer No Comments

And How Wedding Vendors Benefit Your Photography Business

Wedding Vendors

You know you have worked with wedding vendors that you love – and maybe some that you don’t – time and again. They work hard to help the wedding day run smoothly and can be your best asset on the wedding day.

When two people fall in love and decide to tie the knot, often they don’t realize how much work takes place behind the scenes on the big day. You have wedding planners, wedding coordinators, wedding photographers, caterers, videographers — the list goes on and on.

After all, this can be one of the biggest days in a couple’s life! And the professionals that work behind the scenes to make it all possible must execute their jobs with absolute precision.

These professionals are the wedding vendors. Each vendor has a role of their own and once a couple hires them, they immediately get to work. Everything they do plays a part in creating a smooth wedding day for the couple as well as their guests.

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Fast 5: Capture the Perfect Wedding Detail Shots

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jul 03Categories: Fast 5, Wedding Shooting No Comments

ShootDotEdit’s Fast Five — 5 useful quick tips you can apply to your photography business right now!

Wedding Detail Shots

A major part of the wedding day story is retold with the wedding detail shots. Because, at a wedding, every detail is planned. From the guest list to the attire to the fold of the napkins. The planning that goes into most weddings is the culmination of countless decisions and immeasurable effort. So capturing the most important detail shots and moments are essential to your success.

As the wedding photographer, you get to be the one to document the day as it all comes together. And it’s your job to help encapsulate all the tiny little nuances.

So here, we’ll cover the FIVE basic rules you should follow to capture the perfect wedding detail shots.

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How to Build Relationships with Wedding Coordinators

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jun 30Categories: How to Become a Photographer No Comments
BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH WEDDING COORDINATORS

If you build relationships with wedding coordinators, you build solid referral partners. Read on to find out how!

Being a wedding photographer often means being a VIP to the bride and the groom. They rely on you to get their beautiful and intimate moments captured on their wedding day.

But being the center of attention, your couples may get lost in the details of the wedding venue, the ceremony, their emotions and the guests who love them. They trust you to capture all this on your camera and show them the whole story once it’s done.

You feel responsible and are doing your best to fulfill the expectations. But there is one more person who is doing her/his best to make this wedding a dream wedding for the bride and the groom. That person is the WEDDING COORDINATOR. How to build relationships with wedding coordinators is what we want to share with you now.

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FAST 5: How Long do You Spend Editing Wedding Photos?

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jun 26Categories: Lightroom & Photoshop Tips No Comments
Editing Wedding Photos?

How long do you spend editing wedding photos? Editing wedding photos is one of the most time-consuming aspects of your post-wedding workflow. Every minute you spend editing is time not spent growing your photography business. It can be detrimental to your success and your workflow!

So let’s go over 5 ways outsourcing can help you stop editing Wedding photos and instead grow your business while saving you time and headaches. Want to know more about ShootDotEdit the editing services origin story? check out this blog post on ShootDotEdit!

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How I Got the Shot with Salt & Pine Photography

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jun 25Categories: How to Take Wedding Photos, ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer No Comments

Salt & Pine photography is made up of Darryl Ann and Joe and they are a Seattle-based husband and wife team of wedding photographers that make up Salt & Pine.

These two talented photographers LOVE adventure, and find magical ways to capture it in their images. So when they agreed to tell us how they got some of our favorite shots they’ve taken, we were thrilled to share with you what they had to say!

Salt & Pine Photography

Read on to learn how Salt & Pine got the shot!

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Crafting the Right Wedding Workflow for Photographers

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jun 23Categories: Lightroom & Photoshop Tips, Wedding Photography Ideas No Comments

What does having a good Wedding Workflow mean to you?

Sometimes the gap between engagements and weddings is a full year, so how do you often use that time? Do you relax and put off preparations until one week before the date? If so, you may already know how much stress this can create for you and your clients. 

So what should you be doing? Perhaps you could list everything you have learned about the couple so far — which poses suit them, what they expect from you and what gear would be best to bring for their big day.

These kinds of notes will help you a lot when planning your wedding workflow. But there are still so many ways to improve your workflow before, the day of and after the wedding.

Having a solid wedding workflow foundation in place will benefit not only you, but your clients as well.

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Fast 5: SIMPLE LIGHTING TECHNIQUES FOR WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jun 19Categories: Fast 5, Wedding Lighting No Comments
LIGHTING TECHNIQUES

You probably have picked up some awesome lighting techniques along your journey as a wedding photographer. And you know that lighting can be liberating OR one the most challenging aspects you face. Every shoot you encounter is different and each requires you to have a vast knowledge of photography lighting techniques (and how to properly use them) to nail the session every time.

We reached out to wedding photographer Mark Condon from Shotkit to discover his secrets to photography lighting techniques you can use for your upcoming shoots!

Check them out in this week’s Fast 5 on Lighting Techniques!

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How I Got the Shot with Diane Nicole Photography

Author: ShootDotEditOn: Jun 18Categories: How to Take Wedding Photos, ShootDotEdit Featured Photographer, Wedding Poses No Comments
Diane Nicole

Hey! You made it to the first How I Got the Shot with ShootDotEdit.  This week, we welcomed northern California-based wedding photographer Diane Clifford of Diane Nicole Photography.  

We love Diane’s work and are proud to call her a valued ShootDotEdit customer. So much so that we picked out a few of our favorite images she captured and asked her to explain a bit how she got such incredible shots!

So without further ado — Diane Nicole Photography!

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