Home Study Course Wedding Photography
Want to be a Professional Wedding Photographer?
Course Content and Structure
This course contains 9 lessons; as outlined below:
- Introduction
- Nature and Scope of Wedding Photography
- Creating Romance
- Managing People
- Planning
- Developing a Checklist for Wedding Shots
- Brides Home, Grooms Home, General Shots, At the Ceremony, At the Reception, etc
- Digital Wedding Photography
- Equipment
- Lighting at Weddings; Rain, Sun, Overcast Weather
- Logistical Planning
- Key People to Liase With
- Guidelines
- What Shots
- Listing Shots
- Preparation
- Understanding different Types of Ceremonies -christian, muslim, buddhist, Jewis, etc
- Equipment
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Larger Format Cameras
- Digital Cameras
- Back Up Equipment
- Lenses
- Flashes and other Accessories
- Bags
- Battery Packs
- Tripods and Monopods
- Style Options
- Photojournalism versus Classical
- The Traditional Poses
- Other Shots
- Photographic Composition and Posing
- Taking Flattering Photos
- Principles of Photo Composition; Unity, Balance, Proportion, Harmony, Contrast, Rythm
- Qualities of the Subject; line, form, mass, space, texture, colour, patterns, tone, lines and paths.
- Camera Techniques to Assist with Composition; movement, depth of field or focus
- Basic Principles of Light
- Basic Camera Terms
- Equipmentand Materials
- Filters, Lighting
- Composition
- Rule of Thirds
- Developing a Portrait Style
- Posing for Photos
- A Photo Essay
- Blurring Movement
- Panning
- Shooting the Wedding Ceremony
- Pre Wedding Shots
- Order of the Wedding
- Precession, Greeting, Statements of Intention, Exchange of Vows, Exchange of Rings etc
- Important Shots at a Ceremony
- Posed Photographs before a Reception
- Indoor Weddings
- Controlling Light
- Restrictions on Photography
- Outdoor Weddings
- Dealing with Strong Backlight
- Larger Wedding Parties
- Smaller Wedding Parties
- Video
- Shooting the Wedding Reception
- Scope and Nature of the Reception
- What and when to shoot at a Reception
- Guests
- Post Production
- Processing
- Batch Processing
- Fault Finding
- Digital Colour into Black and White
- Digital Duotone and Sepia Tones
- Filters and Image Processing
- Special Effects
- Compositing
- Presentation of photos, etc
- Business & Marketing
- Selling yourself Establishing a Wedding Photo Business
- Devising a Business Plan
- Marketing
- Scheduling your Work
- Financial Management
- Insurance
- What to Charge
- Written Contracts
- Customer Satisfaction
What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.
If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.
You can find further information on other courses by clicking on the “Courses” link above.
Aims
- Determine factors relevant to any particular wedding, that can impact upon the way in which a photographer will plan and conduct the shooting of photos for that wedding.
- Learn how to plan what to do, where and when on the wedding day.
- Select photographic equipment appropriate for use when photographing a wedding.
- Determine an appropriate style for wedding photographs, according to the needs of the client.
- Improving your photographic composition.
- Shoot a Wedding Ceremony
- Shoot a Wedding Reception
- Process and present wedding photos to the clients, in a variety of formats
Successfully establish, market and manage a wedding photography business
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Wedding Photography Distance Learning Course
Be a Wedding Photographer
At a wedding, the total focus is on the bride and groom - they are the event! The photography needs to maintain this strong focus on the bride and groom and convey the image that they are first and best in every way on that occasion. The whole concept of a wedding is always romantic, frequently fashionable and preferably overflowing with optimism and life.
