Fundamentals of Photography
John Greengo
Everything You Need to Know to Build a Successful Wedding Photography Business
What’s the best way to learn about wedding photography? Talk to a successful wedding photographer, of course. Even better? Go with her on a live wedding shoot! This extraordinary CreativeLive experience gives you a first-hand look at what it takes to shoot a wedding, from the morning bridal party prep to the actual wedding service to the reception toasts.
Celebrated photographer Jasmine Star begins by telling her personal story of how she built her business from the ground up. She covers everything from equipment to pricing to marketing. According to Jasmine, the key to a successful wedding photography business is to build a unique brand that highlights your personality, strengths and talents.
You’ll then accompany Jasmine and her team as she shoots the real-life wedding of Laura and Billy, who graciously allowed CreativeLive to share their experience with the world. Jasmine will demonstrate how she gets the most creative, most meaningful wedding photos that will be treasured by the happy couple for the rest of their lives.
In this class, you’ll learn how to:
This is an absolutely incredible course and my first from Creative Live. Being new to wedding photography with one booked, I have learned so much and feel so much more prepared after having watched this course. I ended up with about 10 pages of notes! I loved how it was structured, and packed full of information. Jasmine is likeable and gave me some brilliant ideas on where to take my business. I would 100% recommend this course to anyone who is just starting out with wedding photography, wanting a beginners guide.
This was my first Creative Live purchase. I love the way Jasmine & JD's relate. Her vulnerability in the course and seeing her deal with stressful obstacles. She is also an extremely gifted marketer and talented business lady.
So far this has been totally inspiring! Amazing teacher who is witty and human covering the challenges and pressure of photography. I will give Jasmine an A++ for delivery and subject matter.
All I can say is "wow!" - I am completely blown away by this course. I figured this course would be informative but it has made me completely step back, refocus and rethink the way I shoot weddings and run my business. Jasmine's expertise and real life examples of how she built a focused, intentional brand are invaluable. No wonder she is so successful! Thank you Jasmine and Creative Live for putting this on! Awesome, awesome, awesome!
I want to learn from Jasmine! She is truly the master! Whatever your level of expertise you can always learn something from Jasmine Star.
Jasmine Star is an excellent photographer! She knows her stuff.
Jasmine you are truly amazing! It is such a Blessing to watch you and Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and ideas!!!
Awesome videos! This save myself a lot of stress and thank you Jasmine for loads of tips! So worth it!
Jasmine is an amazing educator, who really gave it her all in this stellar course! Love how detailed her instructions were - down to such nuances as the bride's shoulder position! Big thanks to Jasmine and creativeLIVE for bringing this wealth of information to the community. Totally worth the buy! I can appreciate how grassroots and "live taping" the filming approach is, but I think I wouldn't mind giving most of that flavor up in favor of a more edited version :) You know - cut out the bits where the camera is just recording black and the pieces missing audio. And where is this missing footage promised from the guy you can see taping Jasmine from across the street?? Anyway, amazing course, and hopefully you guys can figure out the video/audio/mic stuff so that it doesn't get in the way of absorbing all this amazing content.
Loved this! Definitely worth the buy!
I loved every minute and I felt like I learned so much. Her style is fresh, classic, and relevant. I can't wait for her next course. I'm now an official member of the J Star Cheer Squad.
I loved this course! So informative and helpful. Thank you CL!!!!
I looked at the workshop only for a while during the broadcasting but it was enough to convince me to buy it. One year passed: on next sunday 'm taking pictures as first shooter for the first time in my life and I spent all this week long, watching at the workshop. One of the best workshop ever made and I'm really shocked by the huge and very difficult experience that Jasmine managed in excellent way, during the workshop. Absolutely to buy!!!!!!
I watched this live back in August 2010 and since the first day it was on my list to buy. Finally bought it as part of the end of year pack in December 2010 and only just got around to watching the full five days. I'm not a wedding photographer, nor do I have plans to become one any time soon. I was interested in this course because of the business sessions on marketing, branding and so on. If you're interested in becoming a wedding photographer this is a must buy no question. If, like me, you're only interested in the business sections this is a valuable course, but there is a better option available from CreativeLIVE. The new 'Building your Wedding Photography Business' course by Jasmine consolidates all this business information from this course into a two day course. Another good addition to your to buy list should be Children's Portrait Photography with Tamara Lackey. This has by far the best business section of any of the CreativeLIVE courses. Combined these two courses and you will be set up and profitable in no time. Back to this wedding course. As others have said there are audio issues here and there but they are at worst annoying and don't really effect the overall experience. I think you can see from the course content if you are an aspiring wedding photographer this is the course for you. Five days of content from an award winning wedding photographer. As I'm not a wedding photographer I can't really add much more. I just wanted to say it's a great course. Fun to watch. Invaluable information. I really appreciate CreativeLIVE being here to offer these courses. Thanks guys!
This is an amazing event to be involved in - and I feel as if I was involved all the way in Switzerland! Jasmine Star is so natural and genuine in front of the camera that she makes you feel as if you are her best friend. Seeing her shoot, watching the way that she uses the natural light and being walked through the problems you might encounter is invaluable. Even if you are not interested in photography or weddings, her business advice is spot on. Creative Live and Jasmine did an amazing job and I am so glad I bought the course. To be able to go back to a video and see how something was done, again and again is well worth the price. I'm also exciting to be contributing to new workshops for 2011 - can't wait to see what you guys come up with! It's true that some of the footage has yet to come through (would love to see the bridal prep stuff!) but it was so exciting to see the new footage of Laura and Billy outside, I think it will be worth the wait. Buy this course and be truly inspired! Emma Godfrey
This is probably the best course I have ever seen so far for wedding photography! Thanks for inviting Jasmine Star!
Natural light is something I struggle with. I'm much more confident using flash. Jasmine definitely rocked it and showed how to get some amazing natural light shots. Another key thing I took from this was client interactions. I'm not a wedding shooter, but there is value for portrait shooters in this as well. While the bulk is naturally geared toward weddings there are many facets of this course that transition across many areas of photography. She was a delight to watch and learn from.
I went back and forth for several days about whether or not I was going to purchase this workshop. It was the first I watched with Creativelive and my boss didn't think that watching Jasmine Star shoot a live wedding was a valuable way to spend my time at work. I tried my best to convince her, but no go. After a long thought process, I purchased the downloads and am so happy I did. I watched the entire thing in one weekend, and loved every second of it. Jasmine Star is an amazing photographer and such a inspiration to all. I continue to go back through the downloads to remind myself of all the great things I learned from this workshop. Another A++ for Creativelive!
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