Mastering Digital Wedding Photography (Paperback)

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Once and Future Wedding Photographer
Chapter 2: Business First
Chapter 3: Equipment Matters
Chapter 4: It Is Digital PhotographyComputers 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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