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Workflow for wedding photographer

A  lot of people are asking me about my wedding photography workflow, it seems that a lot of people are approaching the wedding photography business. There a lot of different workflow that you can adopt but surely one thing that a photography workflow will help you is optimizing your time and avoiding mistakes.
Here my wedding photography workflow:


PRE– WEDDING

  • 3 days before the wedding
    • I usually phone to the bride to check that everything it’s ok and that there are no changing in the plan of the wedding day
    • I phone to my assistant to arrange everything
  • 1 day before the wedding
    • Charge camera batteries
    • Charge AA batteries for flashes
    • Format memory cards
    • Check all my camera settings (programs, customized programs, ISO, and Raw file format)
    • Sync cameras clocks
    • Prepare my backpack
    • Print the plan of the day for me and my assistant with all useful addresses and phone numbers
    • Save in my GPS system all the locations

WEDDING DAY

  • I usually change batteries and memory cards at regular intervals
    • After bride and groom houses
    • After the church
  • My assistant take care of my equipment and of my memory cards
  • I have a plan in my mind is like creating an essay for a magazine using a narrative approach


Wedding photographer equipment

Wedding Photography Workflow

AFTER THE WEDDING

  1. I take all the memory cards and place them near the computer
  2. I download them to the computer in a single folder ordered by date created
  3. I open the folder in bridge and I rename all the files in this way PhotographerSurname_AAMM_DD_0001 where AA year, MM month , DD day + progressive number
  4. First security and temporary backup
  5. Open Lightroom, I usually create 1 catalog for each wedding
  6. Keywording inside Lightroom
  7. Rating  inside Lightroom
  8. Developing  pictures with > 0 stars
  9. Preparing on line gallery with http://slideshowpro.net/ Lightroom plug – in
  10. Writing Keywords to file in Lightroom
  11. Archiving files in a Drobo  (raid) an third backup on external HD
  12. Import all the files in Expression Media catalog
  13. Delete security and temporary backup (point 4)
  14. Send everything to brides and groom

I use a similar workflow also for my editorial works, I believe that this kind of workflow could work for digital photography in a wide  way ant that is really fine as a workflow for wedding photography.
A lot of wedding photographer use it (almost all my ex  assistants).

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