How to Become a Wedding Photographer

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Rebecca Guenther with www.m5a1photography.com, and I'm going to talk to you about how to become a wedding photographer. What you want to do for this one, is you want to go out and you want to pull together a portfolio, ideally of weddings. But it's also OK if maybe you stage the weddings. Have your friends dress up in their old wedding dress and maybe a tux and get some photographs of them, photographs that you would like to see from your own wedding. You want to make them romantic. You want to make them not feel too posed, ideally, but you also want to know how to get an entire group of people together and have them look good. After that, you're going to go with your portfolio to a wedding planner and you want to show them your book and explain what your vision is in the wedding--'I want to capture the romance. I want to capture the love.' Hopefully, the wedding planner will like your work enough that they will recommend you to the bride and the groom. It also helps to use your friends as networking during this. So if you volunteer to photograph a wedding for free for one of your friends, it's very likely that they'll show your images to their friends and then their friends will use you and hire you on. And that's how you become a wedding photographer."