Wedding Photography Ideas

As 2017 inches closer, it is crucial for you to focus on areas of your business that need your immediate attention to help you book more weddings. We know this can be stressful, especially when it adds more work to your plate. Here at ShootDotEdit, we enjoy providing you with resources to help you and your business – and we’ve got a great one for you now.

To eliminate any stress, and help you stay on track for your booking goal next year, we reached out to 22 pro wedding photographers for their best tips for getting booked. The result? A guide just for you, packed with 40 secrets on filling your 2017 calendar!

Secrets to Getting Booked in 2017: 22 Wedding Photographers Share What Worked in 2016

Our free guide features pro wedding photographers Vanessa Joy, Donal Doherty, Zach and Jody Gray, Scott Robert Lim, The Scobeys, and so many more! The tips we gathered from these pros cover all necessary topics for increasing your bookings for next year, including Marketing, Blogging, Branding, Website, Social Media, Networking, Client Communication, Referrals, Client Meetings, Outsourcing, and Systems! Use this guide to help you optimize parts of your business to attract ideal clients and book more weddings next year.

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Here at ShootDotEdit, not only are we a wedding photography editing service for professional wedding photographers, we also love to provide free photography-related education. With 2016 coming to a close, we wanted to spend time reminiscing on some of the wedding photography resources you really loved. These are all tools to help you streamline your business and become more efficient, all so you can focus on what you really love to do! Take a look at our top wedding photography resources of 2016, and don’t forget to tell us which is your favorite in the comments below.

49 Email Templates

You spend so much time communicating with clients, vendors, and other photographers. The hours you spend add up, and email communication starts to become a bottleneck for your business. Since communication should be simple, so you can stay organized and focus on what’s most important, we decided to create templates just for you.

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Image Compliments of Jessica Hill Photography

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With each wedding you shoot, there is a moment specifically catered toward the bride. Her portraits are the time for you to document her beautiful dress, hair, makeup, and accessories. Of the important images you take during the wedding day, bridal portraits are one the bride will look forward to. Since you shoot portraits for every bride, finding new ways to light and pose them can keep your images fresh and relevant. To inspire your creativity, here are 9 stellar bridal portraits from pro wedding photographers.

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In every shoot, there are various ways for you to create memorable images your clients will love. Silhouette images help you maintain a diverse portfolio, and allow you to deliver unique photography to your clients. Below, we gathered 4 breathtaking wedding silhouette images you need to see. Use these photos as inspiration to create silhouettes at your next wedding shoots!

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As a photographer, learning new skills and fine-tuning the ones you currently have is a great way for you to master your unique photography style. Another way to gain inspiration for new ways to create memorable images is to look at other wedding photographers’ imagery. Black and white photos are great to help you tell a story from the wedding day and to highlight the important moments.

Here at ShootDotEdit, we love to share amazing images by photographers from all around the world on our various platforms. Today, we want to share a few black and white photos from industry pros that will give you inspiration.

Liam Kidney Photography

In this black and white photo, Liam Kidney Photography, a part of our ShootDotEdit Customer Community, captured a fun photo of the couple on an open road with a dramatic sky!

Image by Liam Kidney Photography

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One of the ways we love to provide inspiration for you is to share breathtaking images by pro wedding photographers from all over the world on our Facebook page. It’s one of our favorite things to do (besides help you with your wedding photography post production)!

So you can learn additional ways to approach your upcoming shoots, we want to share a quick behind-the-scenes look into the details and the story behind some of these images. Today, we are focusing on Shane and Lauren Photography’s gorgeous windmill photo at Cal-a-Vie Health Spa in northern San Diego County.

Image Compliments of Shane and Lauren Photography

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Here at ShootDotEdit, we love to help photographers with their wedding photography post processing. We also enjoy sharing inspirational imagery on our Facebook page from fellow photographers to give you motivation to shoot and create stunning photos for your clients.

Today, we wanted to share a bit of behind-the-scenes information about a gorgeous wedding image by Jelger and Tanja, Photographers, that we featured on our Facebook page earlier this year. We recently interviewed the Vancouver wedding photography duo to find out some of the details behind this photo of the horses running in the background.

Image Compliments of Jelger and Tanja, Photographers

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As a wedding photographer, there are many opportunities for you to advance your photography skills and try new techniques for your images. From lighting and posing, to shooting in time-crunches, to finding your unique style and creativity, there are plenty of ways for you to grow. While you take the time to learn new skills, it can be helpful to look outside your genre and to other non-wedding photographers. Since you have a unique photography style, non-wedding photographers can give you a perspective outside of the wedding photography world.

Fashion photographers use techniques to create strong and powerful imagery, which can inspire you and your photography. Below, we share 4 things top fashion photographers can teach you, as well as examples of some industry pros who can provide you with inspiration.

1. Make Clients Look Their Best

One of your main jobs as a wedding photographer is to make your clients look their best. During their engagement shoot, this means you share with them what colors to wear, poses to use, and lighting and background to incorporate. The same goes for the wedding day shoot, where you have the responsibility of making your couple (and their loved ones) look their best in every shot.

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