My V1 lasted 8.5 hrs and changed battery even though a bit of juice left for the last 1/2 hr. Only changed camera battery once. Just did my first wedding, so nervous and on my own, exhausting but blew my own mind with how well I did. And clients so happy. Didn’t want to do weddings but loved it!!! I managed because I’ve watched your video previously. Thank you. My day included unraveling a bridesmaids jewellery, helping mum hem a bridesmaids dress, providing an extension lead for the curling wand, playing with the flower girls, solving problems, checking the bride had water and eaten something and checking weather maps for rain - inside or outside decision to be made. We got lucky with outside no rain. Be prepared to be a supporter and calm in the room.
I often wonder, when reading comments about how TH-cam videos help us learn more than universities/colleges, whether the videos actually teach us more or that the uni/college courses already built us a foundation from which we can learn and improve from the TH-cam videos significantly more.
A photographer that doesn't want other photographers to fail. That's what you call a family member. Too many people in other fields competing when the idea of becoming successful to feed their families or themselves is placed in the back. I appreciate people like this, because it's something that I'd do for others. We're all fish swimming in the same fish bowl trying to survive.
"You can't see that one because it wasn't very good and I don't want to show it to you." The awkward humour is what keeps me coming back to your videos. Love it!
Taylor your video was extremely helpful to prepare for my first full wedding shoot last weekend here in Germany. The couple likes the photos (so do I ;) ) and it just was a great day. Thank you so much!
This video calmed me down being nervous for shooting my first wedding after Covid in a few days. I think I got it and I really like your approach of keeping it easy going and relatively plain and simple. The key is in doing the basics well first and constantly I guess.
I still go back to this video as the best example on youtube of how to shoot a wedding, everything from the mindset to the why and he misses nothing. Great work.
Good stuff. Even after shooting over 150 weddings in the last 6 years I still find myself watching videos trying to find next tricks I may have not seen. I watched a lot of Creative Live when I was starting out. Susan Stripling and Joe Buissink are two that really helped me better understand how I can use my fun loving personality as a way to relax people vs trying to be standoff-ish. Joe said it best, you can be a commodity or you can be an experience. There is only one of you, and not all experiences are equal. If you allow people to consider your value strictly by your photos then it allows for couples to consider price comparisons more as its photos to photos, and not experience where the photo are the by product.
I know there are so many photographer can take more crazy beautiful photos. But for wedding photography, I think the best is the moment. And you did it amazingly wonderful. Great job! Great work! The world needs more people like you and we are not perfect but we are doing it better each and every day!.
Phenomenal! Thank you so much! You inspire me and motivate me to make photography my own and not have to be like other photographers. Especially the parts about being an introvert. SUCH practical, useful advice. Thank you!
39:21 Is the reason I'm into wedding photography. What a beautiful shot with gorgeous colours, and the still shot at 39:30. What great light and perfect subject matter. Every photographer's wet dream.
I really enjoy your videos. Its nice to hear someone talk about all that they think about and do when they shoot a wedding day. I'm sitting going "Hey, I do that too!". I don't know many wedding photographers, lol.
Great stuff Taylor, really strong John branch vibes on this one in terms of how deeply you explain and how you are completely generous with your whole process. People like you and John are how the world gets better photographers.
You should try Capture One. It does an excellent job at removing objects without having to load photoshop to use its content-aware. C1 would have automatically pick parts of the sky that would closely match the area. It's just amazing. Also C1 would replace the need for Photomechanic and take your culling to the next level by quickly showing you which faces are out of focus. You can even have it programmed to add auto adjustments to your parameters during import. It gives you a great starting place before you start making adjustments. It's so good, many times I'm happy with its choices. The straighten tool is superb as you just draw a line on a building or object and it will line up your photo perfectly. Too speed the learning curve, they have a tool that moves all the tool layout to make it look similar to LR. After a time, you'll want to move the tools around for the different photography projects. I have a desktop for product photography and one desktop for weddings. Oh, and about skin tones. C1 has an amazing tool for fixing skin tones without having selecting the skin. It's mind-blowing. We even use the tool for what it wasn't made for like changing the colors of objects. C1 runs on older machines even. I'm using an old Mac Mini 2012 with an e/GPU and the damn app never crashes or slows down with large images from my R5. Sorry for sounding like a fanboy, but Capture One is just too good not to let fellow photographers know about a better tool for busy professionals.
I'm so thankful for this video. This is heaven sent. Now if only you had featured a darker skin couple's wedding, that would've found it all up since lighting for lighter skin is different than darker skin. What is your approach to dark skin couples? Thanks a bunch
OMG this is the best resource I could've found on this. I love taking photographs of myself and I think I do a good job of capturing others and I'm finally deciding to take the leap into photography. I'm training & working on building a portfolio right now. Hopefully by the end of the year, I'll have learnt the basic beginner technical aspects of this so I can do this as a career. Thank you so much! :)
TH-cam suggested you and I'm so glad they did. Your videos are awesome and so easy to watch and learn. Massive introvert with a dry sense of humour so got a lot of time for you! Thanks buddy
thanks for sharing your knowledge with us beginners! Personally I'm not making any money from photography. I'm just enjoying taking pictures of friends and family sometimes and it's nice to spice up the images in lightroom
I literally have my first wedding tomorrow! Perfect timing for this vid! And Taylor you did fantastic putting this together! I appreciate all the categories!
Did my first reception a week ago. Can't wait to do my first full wedding and do more than candids/details. This channel is so helpful. Good luck on your first day!!
I've never watched every minute of a video on TH-cam that's longer than 10min, but I watched the entire thing thank you so much for such a great sharing!!!
This is the first video I watch on your channel and I love how personal you are describing how this business feels to you, why you do certain things. That's something really rare and helps me to relate and understand everything so much better. So thank you! :')
thanks!! really loved how I am learning so much from the video and more so, getting to know you as a person from your emotions and experiences. you are a really great story teller! kudos!
Incredible video. Wow. You cover it all. I love how upfront you are about your whole process, it’s one of the things I love the most about your videos. What an incredible resource. Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with so much amazing info. I can't get over why you outsource your post-production. I understand it's probably a time factor, but as a photographer I can't imagine sending it to someone else to post-edit with their own vision of what the end result should look like. Either way, thank you for all the great information, much appreciated.
I have turned down shooting many couple’s weddings because I’m introverted. (I have done a few weddings and some second shooting) I just feel like I’m not good at directing a crowd and “bossing” people around. I just stick to engagements, families, and seniors. But you’re making me rethink it a bit. I don’t need to let my introversion hold me back.
I’m loving wedding photography more and more. Just did two weddings in the last month and I am enjoying it so much. Thank you for all the tips. Your videos have helped out so much.
Taylor I don't know if I will ever get into wedding photography , but I've learned a whole lot about angles , lenses and preparing for any shoot , just by watching you work . Thank you for all this valuable insight and information .
the value in this video.....awesome, thx so much for this. i am very much an introverted shooter and it keeps me from seizing opportunity so i thank you for that encouragement as well.
Many thanks Taylor for this video, you've got balls of steel to do weddings, I get nervous doing landscapes, lol. Once again many tanks for doing this, it will help out loads of aspiring wedding photographers I'm sure. Take care and stay safe.
I am not a photographer but enjoy photography. You do amazing work, I really enjoy watching your processes and explanations during the stages, thanks for sharing.
Don't let it get to your head but you're simply the best. I can hardly think of another situation that I have learned so much in 2.5 hours. Each of your videos have a information/time ratio that is just wicked. Makes other youtubers look like the kids who hope the essay is double spaced if it's 10 pages minimum :) Not sure if you've done it, having done everything, but can you do a video about your worst wedding experience? Or, in order to make it not obvious whose it was, a video about the worst situations that have popped up in your career and how you handled it (or would have handled it with hindsight)?
Great content, thank you and thanks for being real. Quick tip on the LR clone tool... if it doesn't work (edges turn dark, etc.) click on clone rather than heal. Otherwise PS it is! (I always end up in PS after for several photos too).
7:50 you don't necessarily need to spend a lot on a 24-70 2.8 with "VC" or "VR" or "IS" or whatever.. if you get the G1/G2 Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 VC, it's a spectacular lens if you can adapt it on to the Nikon or Canon mirrorless bodies.. the G1 often goes for well below $900 CAD, and the G2 is somewhere around the price of the RF 24-105 f/4L.. so around $1500. If you ask me, it's a steal. It ain't no RF 24-70, but it's 90% of it, for 50% of the cost. Just make sure you purchase Tamron's tap-in console to update the firmware on their lenses if you do choose to adapt them on to mirrorless bodies. Or if you live near a Henry's or something, maybe they will do it for you for free. Who knows. And don't use electronic silent shutter modes near artificial light sources! I think Sony's A1 might have solved the banding issues.. nonetheless, I read a story of a lady who ruined an engagement shoot with banding due to using silent shutter.. Yikes
I love your videos. You have an amazing job. Look up to you. One day I'll travel tje world doing weddings as well. Thanks for the info. I got my first wedding this Saturday and I am excited;)
Wedding Videographer here... it's absolutely fine to be shooting each others setups. My theory has always been two creative minds are better than one and ultimately the couple is the one that wins out as they get a wider variety of shots in both their video and photo.
Of the hundreds of photography videos I’ve sat through - this is THE most useful. I don’t normally shoot weddings but i am doing a friends wedding in December so this video is a God send for filling in those crucial details that no other video gives you. Thanks a lot man, really great job 👏
If you only want to shoot a single body (with a backup in your bag of course), would you choose a 24-70 2.8 or a prime? 24/35/55/85mm f1.8 lenses are game for the prime choice. Body is an a7r, so lots of cropping is allowed.
@@TaylorJacksonPhoto I already own the 24 and the 85, so seems like I'll be getting a used 35 or a 55, depends on what comes up first. I want to get a 24-70 down the road too, for street, landscape, etc, where I don't require the shallow DOF and extra light. Your content is really awesome for someone starting out with weddings! Thank you very much! :)
Fantastic video! I have my first wedding booking, a year from now, so I will be learning as much as I can in between, including signing up to you. Thank you for being you.
Love the video, Taylor. I do have a technical question. At around 51:30, the couple has their first kiss. How do you shoot so the couple isn't dark because of the brighter background? Generally if I was to take a picture where the background is brighter, the subject turns out dark unless I use a flash. And obviously you couldn't use flash from that distance. Can you share how this is accomplished?
I’m manual exposure and trying my best to take something where the back highlights aren’t completely blown out (but still a bit overexposed) and the people have some light on them still. In my experiences, in raw files you usually have a lot of shadow detail you can bring up when needed, but I like to get the jpg preview looking decent as well. It’s usually a few test frames to get it as good as you can in camera.
@@TaylorJacksonPhoto Appreciate that. Sounds like its trial by error when it comes to something like that. Still amazes me when I hear someone shooting a wedding full manual. But with something like that, practice makes perfect and thats why its so important to become completely familiar with the cameras you are using before you take on such a task. You've got to be able to adjust your settings pretty quickly to capture that next shot. Thanks again for the response.
@@robertoffhaus6730 I do few weddings by choice but my main clients are actors and most are females of prime first marriage age so I end doing more weddings than I want. They are all stage actors, with drama background but many are interested in moving to cinema so my connection to film casting directors caused me to start master classes of 20-60 members for 2-3 day classes with invited directors and casting directors. In my adopted home of St Petersburg Russia, an arts capital, there are 236 drama theaters. My native California has less than a dozen so my main business of portfolio sessions for actors, who usually want updates every 6-12 months, means a lot of requests for weddings. Do to the unique style of weddings here, the only predictable portion of the12-24 hour wedding is 20 minutes of actual ceremony in a wedding palace and the rest is much less planned, as a dozen cars and rented buses head off in unplanned movement around the city placing placing flowers at different monuments or parks, palaces etc, or on foot or canal boats, until late at night everyone ends up at a reception party for additional hours. Trying to be 10 yards a head of the coupe following on foot or cars or boat....really stressful. I like engagement sessions, however because I can control it and line up parts of it is spectacular places, parks(over 600 beautiful parks in one city an more canals than Venice and more palaces and classic buildings and museums than anywhere else). Another problem with weddings is everyone with a phone or point and shoot thinks they have priority, which is all avoided by Engagement sessions with only me and the couple and possibly someone doing videos, plus my own makeup artist and stylist. I am easy going so do not like to make demands of additional participants to stay out of the way. With weddings, the photographer really has to be assertive and make friends with the wedding planner so she has some control of the schedule whereas weddings planned by the bride or her mother usually are chaos. Invest in your craft by doing free or actual cost weddings with permission to use some photos for promotion. It is better for you reputation to do sessions for free than cheap, the former boosts your status and the later will create a rep you have no control of. Create a separate on-line account for your business and do not link to your personal account. Do not post any photos unless you want them to represent your work for decades. There is no free pass for beginner photo, they will forever define your work, even it later they are taken down. Make friends with makeup artists and planners, you can become known by their work. Treat the free work as the cost of education and do not post anything until your images can compare favorably against anyone because in the market place there is no advantage for the excuse of being cheap. Attend every wedding you can, become familiar with the flow and pace. Build a rep for engagement or private sessions, where you have more control of the results, and post those images if you and more experienced local wedding shooter judge the photos to be high quality. Meet all the photographers in your town and community, and if they respect your work do not be surprised to get a panic call fill in for an ill second shooter...but only AFTER your free work is at a high level. Breaking in is a lot easer as a compete unknown with some good work to show than working with pros before you are ready. Being flexible in last minute requests from established shooters, if you are ready, because it only takes one time when you filled in to establish a rep, good or bad. A friend of mine, a young 23 yo girl photographer I spotted shooting photos of another girl out in city presented an interesting subject so I took telephoto shot of her taking photos of the "model" so from 30-50 yards away took a dozen photos. While they were reviewing their images I walk over to them and showed both the photos of her taking photos of her friend. They liked the photos and invited me to hang out with them, it was a lot of fun and we shot until after midnight until I took them to dinner. As it turned out the photographer was an established photographer at such a young age, really cute and enthusiastic type while her model was overweight but with nice skin. My style was different but all the photos turned out well. The subject hired her from from 600 miles away and I just gave all my shots of them working and a lot of candies both. I am much older but we sort of bonded. She has a good business and is in demand so 3 times she hired me to be a second shooter on high end weddings and a commercial ad shoot for a major clothing brand. One wedding she was contracted for she needed a second shooter so I volunteered only to find out was a wedding on the beach in Bali for a famous international movie star. I was 72 at the time second shooter to a 23 year old girl. Although I only asked for travel expenses, without telling my she wired transferred $27,000 to my account as a tip( were I live, the cost of living is so low that a very high quality of life is possible on $1200 a month, whereas in the US it might require $20,000 a month but will far fewer options for culture. When I moved from the US 24 years ago, and gave everything away my basic cost of living(without any debt or mortgage I was covering $23,000 a month and had only 1/10 the access to culture and free time. We have done a number of projects together, some for fun and others for seriously wealthy clients. So, be useful and competent and friendly with all the pros you come in contact with. One of them needs you some time and that can put you into business. Good luck!
I am an introvert myself and that has been one of my setbacks as a wedding photographer. It is like you said in the beginning of this video, very draining. I really want to get over it because I really want to do this now because I don’t want to work forever at a 9-5.
This is so insightful. I was just approached yesterday by a colleague for a wedding photogrpahy shoot and I wanted to get out of the nervous bubble and Taylors videos are always a great source of encouragment. Wedding shoot in Arctic Canada.🇨🇦 I will need to check out the courses. Thanks again Taylor for sharing.
I’m going to come visit whenever the world is good again. But actually. Want to send me a quick email with your contact? I’m taylor@taylorjacksonphoto.com and maybe put Iqaluit as the subject so it’s easy to find when we can travel again
Hi Taylor, this friday i shoot my second wedding. Im a real estate photographer and do this only for friends, just like the first time. I really apreciate the videos u are making and i learned a lot of it! I just purchased the presets as a thank you!
1:55:42 Wow at this image! I bet they were super happy with this one. I'm finally getting to the end of this video now (now I have time to watch) and I'd like to say a super thanks for sharing your advice and experience. It is giving me the confidence and knowledge needed to pursue this. Once my temp job comes to an end this year I will definitely be looking to be my own boss for the first time in my life.
Hi jackson really appreciate your tuorial but I wa wondering if u could talk about pricing and in detail and how to charge and calculate your gear and time
My V1 lasted 8.5 hrs and changed battery even though a bit of juice left for the last 1/2 hr. Only changed camera battery once. Just did my first wedding, so nervous and on my own, exhausting but blew my own mind with how well I did. And clients so happy. Didn’t want to do weddings but loved it!!!
I managed because I’ve watched your video previously. Thank you.
My day included unraveling a bridesmaids jewellery, helping mum hem a bridesmaids dress, providing an extension lead for the curling wand, playing with the flower girls, solving problems, checking the bride had water and eaten something and checking weather maps for rain - inside or outside decision to be made. We got lucky with outside no rain. Be prepared to be a supporter and calm in the room.
Unbelievable… i paid a college course for wedding photography and i learned more on two hours than i did on 6weeks… thank you mr jackson.
I often wonder, when reading comments about how TH-cam videos help us learn more than universities/colleges, whether the videos actually teach us more or that the uni/college courses already built us a foundation from which we can learn and improve from the TH-cam videos significantly more.
Pretty crazy that this whole video is free for everyone to watch.
I'm Surprised too. ima buy the presets to show appreciation.
100% agree. Taylor is incredible.
I was waiting for the paywall on chapter 2. X-D
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A photographer that doesn't want other photographers to fail. That's what you call a family member. Too many people in other fields competing when the idea of becoming successful to feed their families or themselves is placed in the back. I appreciate people like this, because it's something that I'd do for others. We're all fish swimming in the same fish bowl trying to survive.
As an introvert I really appreciate your take on wedding days.
Happy they can help!
Same!!
Excellent information and beautiful photos..Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 😊
@@codyanderson4132 same here!
Yes, I loved that too! :)
"You can't see that one because it wasn't very good and I don't want to show it to you." The awkward humour is what keeps me coming back to your videos. Love it!
Hello how are you doing hope you're safe🙏👋👋
49 people disliked this ? What the hell. This is probably one of the best free resources on youtube. Excellent stuff Taylor
Taylor your video was extremely helpful to prepare for my first full wedding shoot last weekend here in Germany. The couple likes the photos (so do I ;) ) and it just was a great day. Thank you so much!
This video calmed me down being nervous for shooting my first wedding after Covid in a few days. I think I got it and I really like your approach of keeping it easy going and relatively plain and simple. The key is in doing the basics well first and constantly I guess.
How did it go, my man?
@@GrowWithTrung Pretty good, I am happy and bride & groom are as well. :)
He’s the man. So good he stress the need to have back up to back up to back up. Minimize mistakes or failure
I still go back to this video as the best example on youtube of how to shoot a wedding, everything from the mindset to the why and he misses nothing. Great work.
Good stuff. Even after shooting over 150 weddings in the last 6 years I still find myself watching videos trying to find next tricks I may have not seen. I watched a lot of Creative Live when I was starting out. Susan Stripling and Joe Buissink are two that really helped me better understand how I can use my fun loving personality as a way to relax people vs trying to be standoff-ish. Joe said it best, you can be a commodity or you can be an experience. There is only one of you, and not all experiences are equal. If you allow people to consider your value strictly by your photos then it allows for couples to consider price comparisons more as its photos to photos, and not experience where the photo are the by product.
I love how your camera sounds like a silenced pistol in an old French comedy in some of your POV clips. Huge thanks for sharing this!
the amount of work put into this AND for free is unheard of!
As an introverted person I am so glad that I stumbled across you on TH-cam and I am so here for this tutorial!
Still watching, but that "Introvert" thing you said touched me :D Great video so far!!
Hello how are you doing hope you're safe?
I know there are so many photographer can take more crazy beautiful photos. But for wedding photography, I think the best is the moment. And you did it amazingly wonderful. Great job! Great work! The world needs more people like you and we are not perfect but we are doing it better each and every day!.
Phenomenal! Thank you so much! You inspire me and motivate me to make photography my own and not have to be like other photographers. Especially the parts about being an introvert. SUCH practical, useful advice. Thank you!
Great video! The information was spot on, and the humor was exactly what I needed to stick around.
39:21 Is the reason I'm into wedding photography. What a beautiful shot with gorgeous colours, and the still shot at 39:30. What great light and perfect subject matter. Every photographer's wet dream.
I really enjoy your videos. Its nice to hear someone talk about all that they think about and do when they shoot a wedding day. I'm sitting going "Hey, I do that too!". I don't know many wedding photographers, lol.
I was offered to do my first wedding next year. I am very nervous & excited. Thank you for this helpful content!
Hope it helps! Have fun :)
Hope you find it helpful! Presets and more videos up here: www.taylorjacksoncourses.com/members
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Taylor-no apologies! This is awesome, thanks so much for doing it!!
Great stuff Taylor, really strong John branch vibes on this one in terms of how deeply you explain and how you are completely generous with your whole process. People like you and John are how the world gets better photographers.
You should try Capture One. It does an excellent job at removing objects without having to load photoshop to use its content-aware. C1 would have automatically pick parts of the sky that would closely match the area. It's just amazing. Also C1 would replace the need for Photomechanic and take your culling to the next level by quickly showing you which faces are out of focus. You can even have it programmed to add auto adjustments to your parameters during import. It gives you a great starting place before you start making adjustments. It's so good, many times I'm happy with its choices. The straighten tool is superb as you just draw a line on a building or object and it will line up your photo perfectly.
Too speed the learning curve, they have a tool that moves all the tool layout to make it look similar to LR. After a time, you'll want to move the tools around for the different photography projects. I have a desktop for product photography and one desktop for weddings. Oh, and about skin tones. C1 has an amazing tool for fixing skin tones without having selecting the skin. It's mind-blowing. We even use the tool for what it wasn't made for like changing the colors of objects. C1 runs on older machines even. I'm using an old Mac Mini 2012 with an e/GPU and the damn app never crashes or slows down with large images from my R5.
Sorry for sounding like a fanboy, but Capture One is just too good not to let fellow photographers know about a better tool for busy professionals.
I'm so thankful for this video. This is heaven sent. Now if only you had featured a darker skin couple's wedding, that would've found it all up since lighting for lighter skin is different than darker skin. What is your approach to dark skin couples? Thanks a bunch
OMG this is the best resource I could've found on this. I love taking photographs of myself and I think I do a good job of capturing others and I'm finally deciding to take the leap into photography. I'm training & working on building a portfolio right now. Hopefully by the end of the year, I'll have learnt the basic beginner technical aspects of this so I can do this as a career. Thank you so much! :)
TH-cam suggested you and I'm so glad they did. Your videos are awesome and so easy to watch and learn. Massive introvert with a dry sense of humour so got a lot of time for you! Thanks buddy
thanks for sharing your knowledge with us beginners! Personally I'm not making any money from photography. I'm just enjoying taking pictures of friends and family sometimes and it's nice to spice up the images in lightroom
Thank you for the idea of setting up a speedlite with sender and receiver for speeches. I don’t this at a wedding yesterday and it worked brilliantly
I literally have my first wedding tomorrow! Perfect timing for this vid! And Taylor you did fantastic putting this together! I appreciate all the categories!
Hah I figured it was a good time to release it! Happy it connected that closely :)
Did my first reception a week ago. Can't wait to do my first full wedding and do more than candids/details. This channel is so helpful. Good luck on your first day!!
Good luck 😀
Good luck and have fun!
Please tell us how it was. I have in three weeks my first wedding and I start to get nervous right now.😯
From 30:11 to 32:05 is really touching. Thanks for the encouragement :)
Taylor!! Thank you so much. I'm new to photography, but it's my dream to be a wedding photographer. Your tutorials are so fun to watch.
I've never watched every minute of a video on TH-cam that's longer than 10min, but I watched the entire thing thank you so much for such a great sharing!!!
This is the first video I watch on your channel and I love how personal you are describing how this business feels to you, why you do certain things. That's something really rare and helps me to relate and understand everything so much better. So thank you! :')
thanks!! really loved how I am learning so much from the video and more so, getting to know you as a person from your emotions and experiences. you are a really great story teller! kudos!
Incredible video. Wow. You cover it all. I love how upfront you are about your whole process, it’s one of the things I love the most about your videos. What an incredible resource. Thank you!
Happy it could help!!
This is incredible! Just wrapped up my third wedding and have a lot to learn. I appreciate you being the little fountain of knowledge that you are!
this is one of the best videos i've seen for wedding photography!! thank you so much!!
Thank you thank you thank you thank you.. this 2.5 free video help me a lot
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with so much amazing info. I can't get over why you outsource your post-production. I understand it's probably a time factor, but as a photographer I can't imagine sending it to someone else to post-edit with their own vision of what the end result should look like. Either way, thank you for all the great information, much appreciated.
Excellent video. Thank you so much!
I have turned down shooting many couple’s weddings because I’m introverted. (I have done a few weddings and some second shooting) I just feel like I’m not good at directing a crowd and “bossing” people around. I just stick to engagements, families, and seniors. But you’re making me rethink it a bit. I don’t need to let my introversion hold me back.
Thanks Jackson...I have learned a lot from your videos.. I am beginner but love photography from my college days. Now I have sources …thanks brother
I’m loving wedding photography more and more. Just did two weddings in the last month and I am enjoying it so much. Thank you for all the tips. Your videos have helped out so much.
So incredibly generous of you to share all your knowledge!! I can barely function a point and shoot camera 😂 but I love watching how you work!!
Hello how are you doing hope you're safe?
Thoroughly enjoyed watching your video. Thank you!
Intro music was badass!! Tutorial was fantastic. Thank you!
What an incredible channel I just found. I’ll spread the word. Thanks Taylor.
Taylor I don't know if I will ever get into wedding photography , but I've learned a whole lot about angles , lenses and preparing for any shoot , just by watching you work . Thank you for all this valuable insight and information .
Happy to hear that! And yah wedding photography is so many different genres of photography all in one day, so that makes a lot of sense.
the value in this video.....awesome, thx so much for this. i am very much an introverted shooter and it keeps me from seizing opportunity so i thank you for that encouragement as well.
Wow Taylor this video has incredible value. Thank you so much for putting it together!
So helpful. Shooting my first wedding this week. Thank you!!
This guy is an icon!
Best 2 seconds, 29:20 ! Lol. All of this is great, thanks Taylor!
Many thanks Taylor for this video, you've got balls of steel to do weddings, I get nervous doing landscapes, lol. Once again many tanks for doing this, it will help out loads of aspiring wedding photographers I'm sure. Take care and stay safe.
I am not a photographer but enjoy photography. You do amazing work, I really enjoy watching your processes and explanations during the stages, thanks for sharing.
This video is such an incredible resource, thank you for making it!
Amazing video. It makes you want to jump into wedding photography haha.
I love how you give a "call if duty" camera style. Very fun to watch.
I'm not even looking to be a wedding photographer, but this video was fascinating. Thanks for posting!
Very good job. Thank you for sharing. I need to learn more about lightroom.🥰
Don't let it get to your head but you're simply the best. I can hardly think of another situation that I have learned so much in 2.5 hours. Each of your videos have a information/time ratio that is just wicked. Makes other youtubers look like the kids who hope the essay is double spaced if it's 10 pages minimum :)
Not sure if you've done it, having done everything, but can you do a video about your worst wedding experience? Or, in order to make it not obvious whose it was, a video about the worst situations that have popped up in your career and how you handled it (or would have handled it with hindsight)?
Haha I don’t have any super terrible experiences fortunately! Have a few weird ones starting out that will eventually be in a video though!
Great Video. Do you set a number of pictures that you will supply your client with?
This is insanely helpful. Thanks for providing this for free!
Just did my first 15 for a client. There was not video like this for that. I may make one for free like you! Thanks for showing me its possible.
Wow...incredible insight...nothing left on the table. Huge effort. Congrats and thanks!
yeessss it's more info than photography school would teach and it's FREEEE
Your humour makes these vids, love it. Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge
Hello how are you doing hope you're safe👍👍🙏
Your commentary at some points is hilarious ..i enjoyed every aspect of this video
Great content, thank you and thanks for being real. Quick tip on the LR clone tool... if it doesn't work (edges turn dark, etc.) click on clone rather than heal. Otherwise PS it is! (I always end up in PS after for several photos too).
Wow! Thanks Taylor! This video was so great!
Awesome tutorial. Have you done a video on using Luminar in your batch edit for skin softening?
Awesome walk through video. Thanks man. All the best 🙂
This is an amazing tutorial and breakdown! Thank you so much for the information! Very helpful!
7:50 you don't necessarily need to spend a lot on a 24-70 2.8 with "VC" or "VR" or "IS" or whatever.. if you get the G1/G2 Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 VC, it's a spectacular lens if you can adapt it on to the Nikon or Canon mirrorless bodies.. the G1 often goes for well below $900 CAD, and the G2 is somewhere around the price of the RF 24-105 f/4L.. so around $1500. If you ask me, it's a steal. It ain't no RF 24-70, but it's 90% of it, for 50% of the cost.
Just make sure you purchase Tamron's tap-in console to update the firmware on their lenses if you do choose to adapt them on to mirrorless bodies. Or if you live near a Henry's or something, maybe they will do it for you for free. Who knows.
And don't use electronic silent shutter modes near artificial light sources! I think Sony's A1 might have solved the banding issues.. nonetheless, I read a story of a lady who ruined an engagement shoot with banding due to using silent shutter.. Yikes
2:32:40 98% is top of the month, thanks man for such an amazing video :).
I love your videos. You have an amazing job. Look up to you. One day I'll travel tje world doing weddings as well. Thanks for the info. I got my first wedding this Saturday and I am excited;)
Wedding Videographer here... it's absolutely fine to be shooting each others setups. My theory has always been two creative minds are better than one and ultimately the couple is the one that wins out as they get a wider variety of shots in both their video and photo.
Of the hundreds of photography videos I’ve sat through - this is THE most useful. I don’t normally shoot weddings but i am doing a friends wedding in December so this video is a God send for filling in those crucial details that no other video gives you. Thanks a lot man, really great job 👏
Happy it could help!
Nice job with the sparklers! What are the settings on that sparkler send-off? (tough to see on the screen)
If you only want to shoot a single body (with a backup in your bag of course), would you choose a 24-70 2.8 or a prime? 24/35/55/85mm f1.8 lenses are game for the prime choice. Body is an a7r, so lots of cropping is allowed.
I would personally go with a prime. 35 or 55 and have apsc crop set to a C button
@@TaylorJacksonPhoto I already own the 24 and the 85, so seems like I'll be getting a used 35 or a 55, depends on what comes up first.
I want to get a 24-70 down the road too, for street, landscape, etc, where I don't require the shallow DOF and extra light.
Your content is really awesome for someone starting out with weddings! Thank you very much! :)
Fantastic video! I have my first wedding booking, a year from now, so I will be learning as much as I can in between, including signing up to you. Thank you for being you.
Happy the videos can help! :)
Thank you so much for sharing . Big fan
Thanks for watching!
Love this!!! I never worry about frame count, you can’t ask them to do it again next week
Zack Snyder would :D
This is amazing !!! Thanks for sharing this for free.
Dude, you are the legend of legends...!
Subscribed! Thank you for the quality, honest, and even entertaining content. Keep up the great work! Greetings from Southern California ☀️
Thanks for stopping by!
Thank you so much for this…God bless you
Love the video, Taylor. I do have a technical question. At around 51:30, the couple has their first kiss. How do you shoot so the couple isn't dark because of the brighter background? Generally if I was to take a picture where the background is brighter, the subject turns out dark unless I use a flash. And obviously you couldn't use flash from that distance. Can you share how this is accomplished?
I’m manual exposure and trying my best to take something where the back highlights aren’t completely blown out (but still a bit overexposed) and the people have some light on them still. In my experiences, in raw files you usually have a lot of shadow detail you can bring up when needed, but I like to get the jpg preview looking decent as well. It’s usually a few test frames to get it as good as you can in camera.
@@TaylorJacksonPhoto Appreciate that. Sounds like its trial by error when it comes to something like that. Still amazes me when I hear someone shooting a wedding full manual. But with something like that, practice makes perfect and thats why its so important to become completely familiar with the cameras you are using before you take on such a task. You've got to be able to adjust your settings pretty quickly to capture that next shot. Thanks again for the response.
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I do few weddings by choice but my main clients are actors and most are females of prime first marriage age so I end doing more weddings than I want. They are all stage actors, with drama background but many are interested in moving to cinema so my connection to film casting directors caused me to start master classes of 20-60 members for 2-3 day classes with invited directors and casting directors. In my adopted home of St Petersburg Russia, an arts capital, there are 236 drama theaters. My native California has less than a dozen so my main business of portfolio sessions for actors, who usually want updates every 6-12 months, means a lot of requests for weddings. Do to the unique style of weddings here, the only predictable portion of the12-24 hour wedding is 20 minutes of actual ceremony in a wedding palace and the rest is much less planned, as a dozen cars and rented buses head off in unplanned movement around the city placing placing flowers at different monuments or parks, palaces etc, or on foot or canal boats, until late at night everyone ends up at a reception party for additional hours. Trying to be 10 yards a head of the coupe following on foot or cars or boat....really stressful. I like engagement sessions, however because I can control it and line up parts of it is spectacular places, parks(over 600 beautiful parks in one city an more canals than Venice and more palaces and classic buildings and museums than anywhere else). Another problem with weddings is everyone with a phone or point and shoot thinks they have priority, which is all avoided by Engagement sessions with only me and the couple and possibly someone doing videos, plus my own makeup artist and stylist. I am easy going so do not like to make demands of additional participants to stay out of the way.
With weddings, the photographer really has to be assertive and make friends with the wedding planner so she has some control of the schedule whereas weddings planned by the bride or her mother usually are chaos.
Invest in your craft by doing free or actual cost weddings with permission to use some photos for promotion. It is better for you reputation to do sessions for free than cheap, the former boosts your status and the later will create a rep you have no control of.
Create a separate on-line account for your business and do not link to your personal account. Do not post any photos unless you want them to represent your work for decades. There is no free pass for beginner photo, they will forever define your work, even it later they are taken down. Make friends with makeup artists and planners, you can become known by their work. Treat the free work as the cost of education and do not post anything until your images can compare favorably against anyone because in the market place there is no advantage for the excuse of being cheap. Attend every wedding you can, become familiar with the flow and pace. Build a rep for engagement or private sessions, where you have more control of the results, and post those images if you and more experienced local wedding shooter judge the photos to be high quality. Meet all the photographers in your town and community, and if they respect your work do not be surprised to get a panic call fill in for an ill second shooter...but only AFTER your free work is at a high level. Breaking in is a lot easer as a compete unknown with some good work to show than working with pros before you are ready. Being flexible in last minute requests from established shooters, if you are ready, because it only takes one time when you filled in to establish a rep, good or bad.
A friend of mine, a young 23 yo girl photographer I spotted shooting photos of another girl out in city presented an interesting subject so I took telephoto shot of her taking photos of the "model" so from 30-50 yards away took a dozen photos. While they were reviewing their images I walk over to them and showed both the photos of her taking photos of her friend. They liked the photos and invited me to hang out with them, it was a lot of fun and we shot until after midnight until I took them to dinner. As it turned out the photographer was an established photographer at such a young age, really cute and enthusiastic type while her model was overweight but with nice skin. My style was different but all the photos turned out well. The subject hired her from from 600 miles away and I just gave all my shots of them working and a lot of candies both. I am much older but we sort of bonded. She has a good business and is in demand so 3 times she hired me to be a second shooter on high end weddings and a commercial ad shoot for a major clothing brand. One wedding she was contracted for she needed a second shooter so I volunteered only to find out was a wedding on the beach in Bali for a famous international movie star. I was 72 at the time second shooter to a 23 year old girl. Although I only asked for travel expenses, without telling my she wired transferred $27,000 to my account as a tip( were I live, the cost of living is so low that a very high quality of life is possible on $1200 a month, whereas in the US it might require $20,000 a month but will far fewer options for culture. When I moved from the US 24 years ago, and gave everything away my basic cost of living(without any debt or mortgage I was covering $23,000 a month and had only 1/10 the access to culture and free time. We have done a number of projects together, some for fun and others for seriously wealthy clients. So, be useful and competent and friendly with all the pros you come in contact with. One of them needs you some time and that can put you into business. Good luck!
Supreme content. Thanks man.
Great video, priceless advice & tips.
Great video! I have been shooting weddings for over 15 years and I learned things!!
I am an introvert myself and that has been one of my setbacks as a wedding photographer. It is like you said in the beginning of this video, very draining. I really want to get over it because I really want to do this now because I don’t want to work forever at a 9-5.
Thanks for putting this together! Such a useful video and really appreciate it being free.
Thanks for watching!
This is so insightful. I was just approached yesterday by a colleague for a wedding photogrpahy shoot and I wanted to get out of the nervous bubble and Taylors videos are always a great source of encouragment. Wedding shoot in Arctic Canada.🇨🇦 I will need to check out the courses. Thanks again Taylor for sharing.
Very timely release then! Where in the Arctic are you?
@@TaylorJacksonPhoto Hi Taylor, I live in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Its still snowing here. 😆🤣
I’m going to come visit whenever the world is good again. But actually. Want to send me a quick email with your contact? I’m taylor@taylorjacksonphoto.com and maybe put Iqaluit as the subject so it’s easy to find when we can travel again
@@TaylorJacksonPhoto Awesome. Will do. Thank you 😊
I appreciate for sharing such valuable information. Thank you 🙏
Highly informative and well done. Very much appreciate you sharing your knowledge :)
Hi Taylor, this friday i shoot my second wedding. Im a real estate photographer and do this only for friends, just like the first time.
I really apreciate the videos u are making and i learned a lot of it!
I just purchased the presets as a thank you!
Hey Tim! Happy the videos can help! Have fun at the wedding!
🤩 Jaw dropping awesome contribution. Thanks man! 🙏
1:55:42 Wow at this image! I bet they were super happy with this one. I'm finally getting to the end of this video now (now I have time to watch) and I'd like to say a super thanks for sharing your advice and experience. It is giving me the confidence and knowledge needed to pursue this. Once my temp job comes to an end this year I will definitely be looking to be my own boss for the first time in my life.
Hi jackson really appreciate your tuorial but I wa wondering if u could talk about pricing and in detail and how to charge and calculate your gear and time
👏👏👏. Amazing man. You are a true inspiration
Thank you so much for posting this. Awesome content!