Skip to main content
Catalog > Photo & Video > Wedding > Wedding Photography: Capturing The Story

Wedding Photography: Capturing the Story

 

Wedding Photography: Capturing the Story

 

Class Description


Weddings are rife with storytelling potential. The gathering is inherently romantic and celebratory. People reminisce about the couple’s past. Spirits are high, music is playing, and as the night progresses, the dance floor fills with joyful motion. The emotional and physical energy of weddings makes for good photography, but a wedding photographer does more than simple, passive documentation of the revelry. Great wedding photography immortalizes the story of the event by combining a mastery of technical skills in a highly dynamic environment, and the social skills to put people at ease and capture genuine moments.

Join Rocco Ancora and Ryan Schembri for this in-depth class on wedding photography and powerful storytelling. 

In this class, you’ll learn:

  • The fundamentals of shooting a wedding - lighting, exposure, composition
  • How to maximize the use of natural and artificial light to create the mood
  • What to do once the wedding is over - image culling, album development, and sales
This class places heavy emphasis on developing strong posing and direction techniques, and deploying them in a natural, non-confrontational manner. Rocco and Ryan believe that the job of the wedding photographer is to understand the story of the evening, and to document it as a journalist would - with technical confidence and the mind on storytelling. All levels of wedding photographers will benefit from this class. Learn how to deliver the product that will most effectively tell the story of the client’s most important night.

Lessons

  1. Class Introduction
  2. Define the Goals of Wedding Photographers
  3. The Importance of Wedding Photographers
  4. Shooting Philosophy
  5. How to Build a Shot List - Bride, Groom & Formals
  6. Tye the Wedding Story Together
  7. Capture Stories in Wedding Pictures
  8. Get the Right Exposure
  9. The Theory Behind Lighting
  10. The Power of Short Lighting & Backlight
  11. Shoot with Low Ambient Light Indoors
  12. Seven Fundamentals of Pose
  13. Continuous Light Sources for Indoor Photography
  14. Use Available Light for Indoor Photography
  15. Flash for Indoor Photography
  16. Outdoor Photographing with Available Light
  17. Group Posing & Lighting Techniques
  18. Groom and Groomsmen Posing & Lighting Techniques
  19. Couple Together Posing & Lighting Techniques
  20. Creating a Memorable Client Experience
  21. The Power of a Same Day Slideshow
  22. What do Couples Look For in Wedding Photographers?
  23. How to Successfully Interview a Couple
  24. The Importance of Wedding Photography
  25. Example Couple Interview
  26. A Workflow That Works in Lightroom
  27. Workflow Overview in Lightroom
  28. Manage Wedding Images in Lightroom
  29. Export Pictures to Animoto
  30. Color Correcting Images in Lightroom
  31. Optimize Images Through Lightroom
  32. Color Management in Photoshop
  33. Rocco's Skin Retouching Technique
  34. Image Toning to Create Distinct Looks in Photoshop
  35. The Value of a Wedding Album
  36. Traditional Design Elements in a Wedding Album
  37. Magazine Design Elements in a Wedding Album
  38. What Makes a Good Wedding Album?
  39. How to Sell the Wedding Album to Your Clients
  40. Wedding Album Workflow

Reviews

Jerry Willis
 

Ryan & Rocco, in my very humble opinion, are THE best wedding photography instructors in the entire industry! I've been watching their work for years now, which just so happens to win a most grand-scaled competitions, and they somehow continue to keep getting better! I first drilled Ryan at WPPI inquiring about what made his workshop different from all the others. His response, me paraphrasing, "If you're looking for tools to learn, come to my workshop. If you're looking for inspiration and smoke blowing, don't come." That's exactly what I needed to hear. Straight tools, no fluff. THE BEST photography workshop I've EVER taken, by far. You want the best photography education, learn from the best. This CreativeLive workshop is the PERFECT complimentary refresher and companion to what I learned! Thank you so much for having them! It's not the same as the workshop, which it shouldn't be, but they ARE reinforcing many things that have slipped my memory! I'm for sure buying this! :-)

Neeraj Arora
 

WOW!!! I have started a few CL courses but not finished as I got distracted by "life" and it took me a while to get back and finish them. But these guys!! They were simply superb. I finished this course really fast. Amazing artists, they explain things so well, Ryan is such a charmer and engaging teacher, Rocco is a fountain of knowledge. I am an enthusiastic photographer with aspirations to start my own business soon. I learn't so much from this class that will help improve my photography even if I don't become a professional wedding photographer. Great job guys, keep it up. I will need to come back to the lessons and I very much appreciate the key note pdf. All CL courses should include the slides like they did here. Thanks CL.

user-3a41db
 

I am a newborn photographer by trade, but I really want to venture out and photograph more weddings so I decided to purchase a wedding class on creative live. Of course when I typed in wedding, quite a few classes came up. But when I saw the image and title "capture the story" I was definitely intrigued. I've always been touched by the photographs that have emotion and that's what I'm passionate to photograph! Always a little nervous when you purchase a class because you don't want to feel like it was a waste of money, but this knocked it out of the park for me! Thank you to Ryan and Rocco for explaining so much, showing the pull backs, and moving your subject and explaining why! This has opened my eyes so much to how beautiful photographing a wedding can be and not so terrifying as I've been making it out to be. I'm really so thankful to hopefully being a great wedding photographer and making more income for my family, while having fun creating something beautiful