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How to Close a Deal as a Wedding Photographer

How to Close a Deal as a Wedding Photographer

The gap between a prospective client and a client who has already booked your service is often narrowed down by how well you are at closing a deal! An engagement session, a parent album, or thank-you notes – there is always something that you can sell to a potential client. Knowing how to sell your services well is one of the skills that can significantly benefit your wedding photography business. At the same time, it is also something that you often learn as you progress as a wedding photographer and business owner. The art of closing a deal will surely enable you to take your photography business to greater heights. Therefore, in this blog, we unlock the secrets of how to close a deal successfully and how to use it to your benefit.

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Tips to Curate Wedding Photography Portfolio & Get More Clients

Tips to Curate Wedding Photography Portfolio & Get More Clients

Booking wedding photography clients is no easy feat, and one certainly doesn’t get it done by moving around a magic wand. There are several business strategies you need to put in place and execute carefully to impress your ideal clients and get them to the point where they think, “THIS is the only person who can photograph our wedding.” And to get them to this point, a well-designed and professional photography portfolio could go a long way. Even though it’s a basic tactic, a quality wedding photographer portfolio could help you make a solid first impression. It will offer your potential clients a glimpse into your work, vision, style, and creativity. So, if you are looking for some tips on how to create a portfolio that wows, you’ve come to the right place!

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Rehearsal Dinner Photography Tips To Plan and Prepare Better

Rehearsal Dinner Photography Tips To Plan and Prepare Better

Intimate toasts, laughter, and gorgeous dinner table setting – a rehearsal dinner has it all. For the bride and groom-to-be, it is the day to rehearse the timeline once again and make sure everything goes as planned on the wedding day. For a wedding photographer, aka you, however, it is an opportunity to photograph the couple and their family and friends up close and personal. Often, rehearsal dinners give way to some unfiltered moments that deserve to be captured authentically. But if this is your first time or you just need a quick recap on photographing these dinners, this blog offers some rehearsal dinner photography tips that could help you out!

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Profoto: A Lighting Game-Changer for Pro Photographers

A collage of a quote from Mark Rezzonico on the left and a Profoto flash light on the right

Quality lighting is one of the MANY factors that go into making a photograph a masterpiece, and Profoto’s mission is to ensure that photographers get the best of it. Their goal is to deliver excellence in photography lighting equipment and make a photographer’s life easier and this goal is what put them at the top of our list for our latest Vendor Spotlight interview. 

Profoto is the go-to gold standard for light shaping tools that help pro photographers enhance their lighting game. When we asked Mark Rezzonico, President of Profoto North America, “What makes Profoto stand out as a company?” he told us, “It’s the reliability and the quality assurance. It’s also knowing that you’re investing in a system that’s going to be with you for your whole career.” Reliability, quality, consistency – YES! But as we explored Profoto, we also noticed that they not only want to offer the best product but also the best service to photographers. Why should photographers consider investing in Profoto? Read on to find out more about the company, how it supports the photographer beyond its products, and what the future of lighting looks like for wedding and portrait photographers. 

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Lightroom Tutorial: How to Fix Bad Lighting

Lightroom Tutorial: How to Fix Bad Lighting

Photographing weddings could mean taking images in all sorts of venues and sometimes even venues with less than ideal lighting conditions. If you are shooting outdoors on a bright and sunny day, you may be able to balance out or fix bad lighting with off-camera lighting and reflectors. Low-light venues possess their own set of lighting challenges. But while you can only fix bad lighting in a venue to a certain point, Lightroom can help you with the rest of the modifications. You can save your images in the photo editing software by adjusting their highlights, shadow areas and correcting tints. In this blog, we show you how! 

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HDR Photography Handbook for Wedding Photographers

HDR Photography Handbook for Wedding Photographers

HDR photography or high dynamic range photography is often used to add a touch of drama to photographs. These photos are a composite of two or more images of the same scene taken at different exposures and then combined together to create one perfectly exposed image. HDR photos are often labeled as having a fake, overly-processed, and unnatural effect. However, this style involves techniques that require attention to detail while shooting and during the post-production stage, which can often lead to some beautiful wedding images. If your couple is looking for amazing and artistic imagery for their wedding photography, then you could try experimenting with this style, especially in outdoor photos. Here are 5 things to keep in mind as you start to incorporate more of this style in your wedding photos.

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Upcoming Photography Workshops & Conferences: 2021 & 2022

Upcoming Photography Workshops & Conferences: 2021 & 2022

Learn, adapt, and reconfigure – professional growth is a continuous journey. And the photography industry is vast and constantly changing, making it all the more important to stay on top of your game and make space for change. For a photographer, photography workshops are one of the most immersive ways to learn and grow from industry leaders and groundbreaking photographers but also, possibly more important, to make new friends. At ShootDotEdit, we believe that education is a critical path to growth and success. And so, we wanted to share a few upcoming workshops with you that we think you might love!

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How to Create a Grid in Photoshop

How to Create a Grid in Photoshop

Sometimes, after taking a stellar photograph of your couple, you might realize that the alignment is wonky, or the building in the background looks a little tilted. But don’t worry, this is something that you can easily fix using a grid as you edit your photos during post-production. Grids in Photoshop help position the elements correctly while editing or designing a layout for your images. They are non-printing lines that float over your pictures and can also be displayed as dots, allowing you to maintain symmetry in your photos. In this blog, we will show you how to create a grid in Photoshop and ensure balance and alignment in your images.

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How to Start a Photography Business: A Wedding Photographer’s Guide

How to Start a Photography Business: A Wedding Photographer’s Guide

From building the foundation and setting up a business plan to planning for the long run, besides the excitement and passion for the craft, there are a lot of other things that you may have to pay attention to when you plan to start a wedding photography business. Whether you are thinking of starting as a wedding photographer or planning for some rebranding, this ‘how to start a photography business’ guide could be helpful for both. So if you look forward to creating a better action plan and make sure you follow through, let us help you out!

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How to Remove Chromatic Aberration From Images in Photoshop

How to Remove Chromatic Aberration From Images in Photoshop

Most of you at some point in time have probably noticed purple, green, or cyan color fringing around the edges of your photographs or chromatic aberration that made your image look blurred or unnaturally colored. As a photographer, you might consider these unwanted color distortions in images as a pain point as they tend to impact the visual appeal of your pictures. However, this doesn’t mean that your photo is now unusable. In this Photoshop tutorial, we show you how to remove chromatic aberration so that you can still save your photographs! 

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