Digital Wedding Photography

Fully revised and updated! Full-color guide to capturing great wedding images and building a successful photography business This full-color book from acclaimed professional wedding photographer Glen Johnson not only teaches you how to take memorable photos, it also shows you how to start a wedding photography business. Packed with great tips and savvy advice, this new edition helps you set up efficient workflows, choose camera equipment, manipulate images, make impressive presentations, and launch smart, photo-based marketing strategies to build your business. Best of all, it's loaded with new, superb photos that illustrate photography techniques. Shows you how to set up and capture beautiful photos, posed or candid, in all kinds of settings, for weddings and other special events Offers practical marketing strategies for building your own photography business, including how to build a fantastic Web site that attracts clients Covers current camera equipment and accessories, post-shoot digital darkroom techniques, digital editing software, and how to print your images successfully Gives you invaluable insights and tips from the author, who is one of the country's top wedding and special events photographers Capture better pictures of some of life's most memorable events and build a sucessful photography business with this indispensable guide!

Fully revised and updated! Full-color guide to capturing greatwedding images and building a successful photography businessThis full-color book from acclaimed professional weddingphotographer Glen Johnson not only teaches you how to takememorable photos, it also shows you how to start a weddingphotography business. Packed with great tips and savvy advice, thisnew edition helps you set up efficient workflows, choose cameraequipment, manipulate images, make impressive presentations, andlaunch smart, photo-based marketing strategies to build yourbusiness. Best of all, it's loaded with new, superb photos thatillustrate photography techniques.* Shows you how to set up and capture beautiful photos, posed orcandid, in all kinds of settings, for weddings and other specialevents* Offers practical marketing strategies for building your ownphotography business, including how to build a fantastic Web sitethat attracts clients* Covers current camera equipment and accessories, post-shootdigital darkroom techniques, digital editing software, and how toprint your images successfully* Gives you invaluable insights and tips from the author, who isone of the country's top wedding and special eventsphotographersCapture better pictures of some of life's most memorableevents--and build a sucessful photography business--withthis indispensable guide!

Acknowledgments.Preface.PART I: Understanding Digital Wedding Photography.Chapter 1: The World of Wedding Photography.Chapter 2: Developing Your Own Style.Chapter 3: The Right Equipment for the Job.Chapter 4: Camera Settings and Digital Exposure.PART II: Wedding Photography Techniques and Concepts.Chapter 5: Composing Your Art.Chapter 6: Finding Beauty and Emotion in the Dressing Room.Chapter 7: Shooting Outdoors.Chapter 8: Shooting Indoors.Chapter 9: Documenting the Ceremony.Chapter 10: Capturing Candid Moments.Chapter 11: Creating Romance in the Magic Hour.Chapter 12: Jazzing Up the Reception.PART III: The Business of Digital WeddingPhotography.Chapter 13: Creating Your Own Workspace.Chapter 14: Digital Workflow: Getting Images from Camera toClient.Chapter 15: Manipulating Your Images.Chapter 16: Creating the Finished Product.Chapter 17: Cracking the Secret Code: Breaking into theBusiness.Chapter 18: Show Yourself: A Website of Your Own.Chapter 19: Destination Weddings.Appendix: How-To Gallery.Index.