| A career as a wedding photographer can be both | | | | apply or you could offer your services on a freelance |
| lucrative and rewarding but in these recession hit | | | | basis. This will help develop your photography skills |
| days it can be a hard business to get into. The | | | | and give you an insight as to how the business |
| professional wedding photographer is competing with | | | | works. Basically, the assistant photographer helps to |
| the part-time amateur who may have the latest | | | | ensure that a shoot goes according to plan. This may |
| digital equipment and feels that through contacts and | | | | involve practical tasks such as setting up the lighting, |
| acquaintances having a new part-time job can be | | | | taking meter readings or transporting the equipment |
| quite appealing. It's not hard now for anyone to set | | | | to the site. |
| up an attractive looking website with decent looking | | | | After getting the practical experience you may want |
| photographs and try to convince potential couples to | | | | to set up your own business. As a wedding |
| sign up for their services. | | | | photographer you will be running a small business and |
| So careful planning is required. A wedding day will be | | | | with most small businesses nothing comes naturally. It |
| one of the most important days in a couple's life so | | | | may be useful to take a small business course and |
| you need to get things right. There can be no redo. | | | | this will help with accounts and marketing. A business |
| As a wedding photographer you will have a very | | | | plan may be useful and most business courses will |
| responsible job. But with the right preparation you | | | | teach how to do this. |
| can be in business. | | | | As a professional wedding photographer quality is |
| Qualifications for the Wedding Photography can be | | | | much more important than quantity. If you deliver |
| obtained through a further or higher education course | | | | quality work to your clients then referrals through |
| resulting in a City & Guilds certificate or BTEC. | | | | word of mouth will come easily. You will need to |
| Whilst qualifications can be useful to get a foothold in | | | | keep up to date with the latest photographic |
| the business, experience is much more important. | | | | technology, trends and imaging software and with |
| One way of gaining experience is to work as an | | | | access to the internet it will be a continuous learning |
| assistant photographer. Some of the bigger studios | | | | process. |
| employ photographic assistants to which you could | | | | |