The Wedding Project with Doug Gordon

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  • 23 video lessons
  • 13 hours and 42 minutes of class content
  • Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
  • 100% satisfaction guarantee

Join award-winning wedding photographer Doug Gordon for an unique introduction to the lighting, posing, and shooting skills you’ll need to take gorgeous wedding photographs.

Using his one-of-a-kind teaching style, Doug will guide you through lighting and shooting every stage of a wedding, including engagement sessions, bride and groom preparation, family portraits, and the ceremony and reception.

Through demonstration and discussion, Doug will also cover key aspects of lighting and shooting weddings, including making successful sales pitches, seeing and using different types of light, posing family portraits, and troubleshooting potentially stressful family situations.

The way you light, pose, and shoot defines your style as a photographer, and whether you’re a novice or a pro, Doug and this three-day creativeLIVE course will give you the tools you need to develop your style and shoot with confidence.

This course is part of the Wedding Tutorial series

Course Instructor

Doug Gordon

Doug Gordon

Doug Gordon is a New York based professional photographer, writer, and speaker. Doug runs Patken Photography, a family-owned studio with a staff of 27 shooting 1,000 weddings every year. Doug has been a professional photographer for 22 years and a respected industry educator for 14 years.

The Wedding Project with Doug Gordon is rated 4.6 stars by 14 students

  • jamil S. Jun 24, 2016

    He is a great photographer and one the the top instructions ever

  • Trina H. Dec 10, 2015

    I've never seen anyone shoot as seamlessly as Doug. I LOVE learning how he gets so much variety in such a short period of time. His posing methods and sales methods really work. Great, great, course. I highly recommend.

  • W. Jun 18, 2013

    Your presentation was excellent and very helpful to me in posing brides and brides and grooms. One difficulty that I encounter in many churches is the existence of mixed light in many shots. Perhaps you could address this in a future presentation or video. Generally, I go with awb and make corrections afterwards in PS.

  • T. Jun 7, 2013

    Highly recommend to any wedding photographer, be you experienced or new. Although based in the Uk, most of what doug taught is relevant and has helped boost my confidence when posing and making adjustments to peoples pose. amazing depth to the way an image is created and lovely to see the images then used in an album to tie everything up from start to finish.

  • J. Jun 6, 2013

    Fabulous ! That's all :)

  • P. Jun 5, 2013

    I put some of Doug's ideas to work the next day on a wedding and they worked. I know photography, but I don't have a lot of experience mastering the flow and pressure of weddings. This workshop was like an injection of wedding experience and instantly boosted my confidence and level of work. It's like Neo in the Matrix getting Kung Fu training piped directly into his brain. Doug goes over some basics of lighting, but mostly this is a place to install a foundation for shooting weddings upon which you can build a successful business. There's real substance here. The body of this workshop will continue to pay off as I use more and more of it in my own work. Not only does Doug teach the posing and shooting, but he teaches how to sell it, and I have already incorporated some of the sales techniques and principles into my business. You don't have to be another Doug. Just use his ideas in your own way, and use what works for you. Clients don't know whose poses or system you're using, and they don't care. It just works. As you practice, make it yours.

  • Akila S. Jun 3, 2013

    I am excited by a Doug a lot. His energy is simply contagious. I always kept away from people photos and have been working with architecture and wildlife... But Doug got me thinking about shifting my work completely. Bought this package and watching them over and over and over as he mentioned in the workshop. Thank you Doug and Creativelive for this opportunity.

  • L. Jun 2, 2013

    All I can say is this... If you are serious about upping your wedding photography game, YOU NEED THIS COURSE! Doug goes through so much concepts in this 3 day course that you need to watch it a couple of times so it really sinks in. Me and the wifey had to pause and rewind the videos a couple of times so that we can fully grasp the concepts. I would highly recommend this course! And for $99, that's too cheap, hahaha.

  • M. May 21, 2013

    Can't wait for this course.... Doug is an AMAZING teacher and photographer, but he's an even better person. Learned so much from the last course. Started seeing results immediately. I'm actually maneuvering my schedule around to be able to watch this from start to finish. Even if you have no interest in wedding photograph.... Watch it for the comedy. Doug needs his own reality show. - Steven A.

  • Sherry C. May 21, 2013

    Loved and bought Dougs first Creative live workshop and learned so much from it that I intend to watch and learn from this one as well! Just from watching the first creative live workshop I can see a big improvement in my work, so I am looking forward to this workshop and learning more from Doug. This one looks very interesting and more real to what us as wedding photographer encounter in real life. Cant wait!

  • Lizet L. May 20, 2013

    Doug has the ability to make anything look spectacular! He's an incredible teacher, mentor and amazing person who can take the ordinary and make it extraordinary! Any lighting situation, venue, couple, domestic situation he can teach you how to shoot it. You would be a fool not to watch and an even bigger fool not to buy this workshop! He has taught me that it's not about being afraid to fail, it's about being afraid to try. Doug pushes you to be better and makes you want to be more! I'm so excited Creative Live has brought him back, the world needs more Doug! -Lizet

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