Lessons
Class Introduction
12:07 2Client Focused Wedding Business
05:43 3Marketing for the Wedding Business
21:55 4Pricing & Sales Strategies
29:28 5Wedding Client Interaction
11:01 6Find Your Photographic Style
28:40 7Gear, Lighting & Camera Settings
11:40 8Capture the Bride Getting Ready
03:30Bride with Dress
05:13 10Connection with Family
04:00 11Bride Dressed with Bridesmaids
06:25 12Detail Shots with the Bride
04:02 13Putting the Veil on the Bride
03:42 14Bride with Family & Bridesmaids
09:34 15Leaving the House for the Ceremony
04:02 16Arriving at the Ceremony
04:49 17Capture the Ceremony
03:56 18Formal Pictures After the Ceremony
09:13 19Detail Shots at the Location
05:08 20Bride & Groom with Bridal Party at Location
10:18 21Bride & Groom on Location
03:52 22Street Location Shoot with Bride & Groom
15:29 23Demo: Bride Interaction
14:04 24Shoot: How to Pose Your Brides
17:48 25Capture the Wedding Reception
16:16 26Shoot: Capture Reception Look
12:41 27Equipment & Accessories for Post Production
13:21 28Lightroom® Workflow
15:02 29Client Image Proofing Online
23:55 30Retouch Images in Lightroom®
04:31 31Photoshop® Editing Overview
14:41 32Photoshop® Workflow
08:49 33Color Correction in Photoshop®
10:27 34Soften Image & Retouch Skin in Photoshop®
14:57 35Black & White Edit in Photoshop®
07:45 36Remove Distractions & Extract Details in Photoshop®
16:11 37Edit Outside Bridal Party Image in Photoshop®
27:04 38Printing Your Images
10:45 39The Power of the Album
11:17 40Album Design & Final Product
23:17 41Graphi Album Design
20:02 42Create an Impactful Slideshow
08:12 43Paper for Printing
03:07 44Yervant & Anie Workshops
14:48 45Final Album Layout
06:48Lesson Info
The Power of the Album
(pleasant piano music) (singing in foreign language) Thank you. (applause) Okay the music was my friend again, my childhood friend from Ethiopia, Jon Varto. He lives in LA. I love his music. If you want, it's on iTunes. Okay, ask me the question. You see, every one of my album is different. That's what I create. This isn't really a technical question, but when you're watching your albums back or you're looking through your images, do you ever feel critical of your work or do you just always love it? Always, always 100% I can't watch my past work, yeah. I am critical, I am critical. If I'm perfect, I won't be around. There's no such thing as perfect. You will be always critical. Sometimes you get bored of it. Sometimes you find faults in it, yes, it's gonna happen but my client won't see that, I will see it. My client is so happy. This couple, the girl bought a boudoir glamor shot to present to her husband. I shot it during the wedding day. When I do those shots I make sure that i...
t's very subtle, very beautiful, not trashy. I want this is a beautiful bride and I want to make sure that her husband is going to respect. She presented that to her husband, he loved it, came in, thanked me. You know I become very friendly with them but I am not, I'm not, I love woman. I have a mother, I have a sister, I have a wife, and I have again I'm a godfather for a young girl and these are beautiful people and I want to make them a statue. A woman is such an important part of my life, and every one of my brides are my little girls. I want them to get the dream they want, and that's what I deliver, full stop. That's my interest, that's my interest and my wife is quite critical also. She looks at my work and say you've overdone it here, this is not good because you need always a second eye. Dan is good at that also. Boss this is not good, she calls me boss. Boss this is not good. Why you're critiquing me, what's wrong? I get upset, I get upset, it's a reality. Even if going to awards, if I don't score high I get upset but it's a human nature isn't it? We will all be upset about things, but at the end of the day it's what everyone looks and I want my clients to see my best. So yeah. So you're saying to always break the rules and always try to do better stuff and but-- No, not always break the rules, sometimes. Always break the rule, you get arrested. (laughing) No sometimes break the rules if it looks good. And then, but also I did not know like you are really constant with your work since 20 years ago and you still are doing new stuff. So how that works? Like so you know what I'm trying to? You see I showed you some of my past work the other day, and they're still current so I try to keep my work constantly not overdone, not overdone. I work little on it, apply a filter maybe after but I just want it, I don't want to remove things like superior postings, make collages, and things. They are real photos. I'm just correcting them, that's all I'm doing. Even the stretching and widening and things like that, I'm making small changes to the picture, not major and most of the time it's because of the lights I'm using. Sometimes the bride says oh we're and we look white, what's wrong with it? I said sorry darling, don't worry about it. I didn't do it on purpose, the camera made that. When I print it, I'm going to fix it. She laughs and that's it you know? Because I want to enjoy with what I have. Shooting wide I really love because if I go to beautiful buildings like that, I want to capture the whole place. That's why if you see the wide shots I try to keep the group in the center more than, but if you shoot tall it's quite good because they become taller and it's great. If you're too close to the bottom, they must stretch their hands or something. That will be distort, but try to move the camera on an angle to see what looks best for them because if you move the camera, if you go down or up it can fix that distortion. So a lot of manual work in my work is manual work. Yeah I have great tools, but I need to have manual, the tools are not magic. They don't think the way I'm thinking. They're helping me to go where I want, so if I rely on the tools then press a button then it's not going to be me, so I need to give manual look to everything. Okay, Graphistudio. It's a, Graphistudio has been my album maker and it's the most important product in my studio. This is why I say this. If I don't have this product, I can't sell myself the way I want it. So I shoot for the album. Pages that sell, what did I say? I shoot for album pages that sell page upon page. Okay I don't understand what I said that. (laughing) Sometimes I'm half asleep when I write those things. My wife checks it but sometimes I wait to ask her to check it. All the images for an album must be retouched and finished, so let's assume we finished Dani's pictures halfway. We haven't applied filter to it. Now we're going to bring to the album software laid out. After layout we're going to still bring it back to Photoshop to apply filters to it okay? Keep the ratio of photos for better layout, so I told you this also. Crop inside the frame so the ratio is always the same, so the album doesn't have one tiny wide picture, one square picture, it's gonna be messy. If you're going to crop, crop in the album software. It looks much nicer, so keep always the ratio the same. Printed results. Give the client the printed results. Album, books, images books, wall art. We don't sell pixels, we sell prints. I am saying this again. This is what made my business successful. If I gave them pixels, I would not have been in business anymore. First, you saw my excitement. I really get excited when I see prints. I ran to the prints. I need to show my clients prints because that's my finished work. Even you guys who are photographers, you saw it on the screen and when I showed you the print, how much different it was. Even you guys as photographers saw it, that's how important it is.
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Ratings and Reviews
Claudia Montero-Kubli
I love it!!!!!! I am so inspired, I learned a lot! thank you Yervant for sharing your Talent with us this two amazing days! Thank you to all the CREATIVE LIVE staff you are awesome!!!! best time! I want to come again!
a Creativelive Student
I am SO grateful to CreativeLive as well as Yervant for taking the time to put on this class. So many times while sitting in this class I thought to myself "what have I been thinking?!" I have so much to learn! I loved hearing about Yervant's process for creating images, but what inspired me even more was his advice on how to view, and treat yourself as a professional. I completely agree when he said photographers are creative but we are "terrible business people." But I aim to change this in my business from this point forward, thanks to this class! Yervant's advice on how to value, protect, and sell your art is priceless. I have always valued printing and creating products clients can hold, but I don't think I understood the real emotional value in it until this class. When he pulls those images we just watched him create for the last two days, off of that printer, and they are there before our eyes, I had an emotional reaction to it. I want my clients to experience the same, so I must value it and create opportunities to educate my clients. Thanks for the kick in the pants that we all needed Yervant! And I hope this will not be the last time I get to experience your education in my life. I said this many times to other students during the class, but I will say it again here, I want to carry a mini Yervant with me every where I go! Thank you Creative Live and thank you Yervant!
a Creativelive Student
Yervant’s ardent love for wedding photography and capturing his brides in their best light is unquestionable. His love for this photography community and his regard for our respect in the world hierarchy is without reservation. Yervant’s willingness to share his knowledge and skill for all these things to come together is beyond generous. These are some of the things that help Yervant to effortlessly stand out as a photography master and this is exactly what this class is about… plain and simple.
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