Fundamentals of Photography
John Greengo
artistic, compelling, and successful wedding photography.
Join award-winning wedding photographer Susan Stripling for a 3-day journey through the world of artistic, compelling, and financially successful creative wedding photography.
Throughout this course, you’ll explore lighting, posing, capturing detail, and much more. Susan will simplify the potentially daunting process of selecting the right equipment for every wedding’s needs. You’ll learn about transforming poorly-lit or visually uninteresting wedding settings into picturesque images.
Susan will also guide you through the workflow she uses, and explain the composition principles that result in dynamic images. You’ll explore concrete, on-the-fly troubleshooting strategies for unexpected wedding events.
By the end of this course, you’ll have the tools you need to think on your feet while photographing every phase of a wedding, with jaw-dropping results.
I love most classes on CL. And this one is equally good. Susan starts off very well, showcasing her work and talking about it, and a lot of her images are great and creative ones that most of us would like to take. However, when she actually gets down to shooting live images for the class, she ends up playing safe, and most of her images are regular images. She does not even try to be think differently or be creative, which is what the title of this class is about. She actually keeps saying and then taking regular safe images. I was a bit disappointed by that part of the course.
Susan is the best Photography teacher and her Wedding School is even better. The best of the best for sure. She has taught me so much!
I enjoy Susan's teaching very much,I find her no nonsense style a lot of fun. I was disappointed that the session with Side Car Post was omitted, perhaps it can be added later, overall a very informative class. Kudos to Susan!
I really enjoyed this course and learned a lot. I was, however a little disappointed that there doesn't seem to be a module with Side Car Post editing. They talk about the editing tomorrow but no editing. Am I missing it?
As so many others have said, this is a fabulous course, with lots of great info and practical solutions. My one question is what happened to the videos about post processing? In the session where she brings on Jen and John from Sidecar Post, she mentions that "tomorrow, we will see their workflow, etc" but those videos aren't included in the course --WAH!!! :-( I was SO looking forward to those....are they included somewhere else?
I Loved this course. I would definitely take another course by Susan Stripling. Her images are beautiful. She has the posing, timing, lighting, mood, etc. all down perfectly and makes amazing, beautiful pictures. She is an excellent communicator as a teacher too.
Nice, simple, easy to understand.
Outstanding, one of the best courses on Creative Live. Wow! The delivery is sharp, on point, and focused. I've learned tons. There are so many gems I've watched this video many times and have now purchased more videos from Susan Stripling. Outstanding presenter. My photography has already improved greatly by implementing some of the techniques shown.
I truly enjoyed this class. I felt that Susan touched base on so many aspects of being a professional photographer. She was straight forward yet incredibly humble in her information. and her lessons are extremely easy to follow. I 100% recommend getting this course...it is a jewel!
One of the best Creative Live classes I have bought so far!
I wasn't really sure whether to but this course. After watching a course of Rocco and Ryan any course would likely to disappoint as they are amazingly good. But Susan is also brilliant, she gives so much knowledge, she explains so well. I love her.
I don't even know what I would do without this course. I don't know that anyone could teach a wedding class better. Susan provided so much information for managing your business as well as your personal life. Even if you know everything there is to know about wedding photography, this class is essential for the success of your personal and professional life. This course was invaluable and absolutely necessary even if you are not a wedding photographer.
I learned so much from Susan in this course. So much practical information. She is very thorough and no nonsense. A very gifted teacher
Excellent course! Susan has a great personality - it shines through. So much practical & useful information...
Very helpful and inspiring. I like Susan's no nonsense approach.
I absolutely love this course! Soooo much real and useful information!! I can't stop rewatching!
I never thought I would say this but this may well be the best investment I have made for my business to date. The content was so complete and Susan is so incredibly genuine that beyond respecting her work as a photographer, I grew to like her as an educator and person. As a single shooter with an assistant, I feel much more confident about how to manage the day after watching the videos and my confidence level got a huge boost. Occasionally while watching the videos I would even jump up and go practice shooting something I just learned. Thank you Susan and Creative Live!
fantastic. absolutely amazing. i bought this on a whim and am so thankful. so much info.
Just watching the preview has sold me, Susan is so informative and free giving with loads of information. I am buying today, and looking forward to learning.
Susan has taught me more in this class than any other class I have taken. It is a win win. She breaks down each step and explains (so you can understand) how and what she is shooting. The look, the feel, the STORY!! That is so important. That was my "aha" moment. Tell a Story!! Thank you Susan Looking forward to purchasing your next Class!!
This course is awesome! Susan Stripling knows her stuff and is an amazing and inspiring teacher.
The content of the course was perfectly taught at a "real" level. Susan's work clearly, speaks for itself, but her willingness to be so generous with her knowledge is fantastic. She has become an instant favorite of mine and her style is truly special and unique. The course was reasonably priced and I am beyond thrilled that I have taken the time to learn from one of the best in the industry. INCREDIBLE course in every way!!
I really enjoyed Susan's direct no B.S. approach to her teaching as well as fundamentals. I like that she doesn't tell you how to shoot but gives you tools to build off of what you're already doing and gives you great advice to working in less than ideal circumstances. This course was completely worth it in order to go back and review and refresh things as well as practice things she teaches in stages in order to absorb it and learn it.
Best Wedding Course ever you could buy here. She is a great Instructor. Love the way she presets her way of shooting. Its a steal for the money.
I purchased this workshop after watching only a small part of Day 1 as I wanted to see wedding photography through a woman's eyes. I had no idea at the time of purchasing that Susan was married to Cliff Mautner. So far I have only watched Day 1 but I can see that Susan has definitely been heavily influenced in her shooting techniques by Cliff, whose teachings I used to watch regularly on Kelby Training. I find Susan's teaching very good she explains very well and clearly - To quote something I have heard quite a few times in the past “it is all about the quality and direction of light“. I am looking forward to watching the rest of the workshop
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