PT4U Master Wedding Photographers And Business Guru’s- Gary and Sue Williams

Gary and Sue run a very successful Wedding and Portrait business from their home, the husband and wife team, both photographers, have created their own magical way of creating a happy client and at the same time making a superb living from photography – which after all is not a sin but an essential skill in running a business

In this film Gary and Sue take you behind the scenes on a real wedding, where you get to see and hear the real banter that goes on, plus how the 2 photographers have different rolls on the day.

Part 2 includes – Groom, Bestman, Bridal Party Arrrivals, Ceremony, Big Group

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In this series of films you get to follow the two SWPP Apprentices, Lisa & Anna over 12 months on their route to higher qualifications and hence better photography skills. You will be able to track the Apprentices on their training journey using a combination of specific films on PhotoTraining4U as well as hands on monthly tuition with Mark Cleghorn on their route to becoming better photographers.

In this 3 part film Mark interacts with the Apprentices as they shoot and discuss bridal posing when photographing on location at a Pier.

Lesson 10 Part 1 includes – Location 1 – The Pier, harsh lighting and exposure. The Anna kicks off the shoot before Mark starts to interact with the girls but the brief is set to go beyond the basics, looking more at Associate level than “L”.

You will also catch a glimpse of Ossy hanging around in the background, as the location is close to his neck of the woods.

Also discussed Exposure, metering, pose. Sekonic Meter

In this series of films you get to follow the two SWPP Apprentices, Lisa & Anna over 12 months on their route to higher qualifications and hence better photography skills. You will be able to track the Apprentices on their training journey using a combination of specific films on PhotoTraining4U as well as hands on monthly tuition with Mark Cleghorn on their route to becoming better photographers.

In this 3 part film Mark interacts with the Apprentices as they shoot and discuss bridal posing when photographing on location at a Pier.

Lesson 10 Part 2 includes – Location The Pier — Mark starts to drive home about animation in the pose to exaggerate shape and to using leading lines for enhanced composition and dynamics.

Also discussed Exposure, metering, pose. Sekonic Meter

In this series of films you get to follow the two SWPP Apprentices, Lisa & Anna over 12 months on their route to higher qualifications and hence better photography skills. You will be able to track the Apprentices on their training journey using a combination of specific films on PhotoTraining4U as well as hands on monthly tuition with Mark Cleghorn on their route to becoming better photographers.

In this 3 part film Mark interacts with the Apprentices as they shoot and discuss bridal posing when photographing on location at a Pier.

Lesson 10 Part 3 includes – Location The Pier, harsh lighting on the Pier – the girls finish off with finding shade and adding some reflected light for contrast. Mark and the girls then review the day before leaving the location.

Also discussed Exposure, metering, pose. Sekonic Meter

This Film features a funky slide show of some of the images shot by Mark Cleghorn on an Apprentice WOW day.

On the rocks is the wedding theme, a Jurassic coastline is the location for the second WOW Apprentice shoot on a cold day. These images are dynamic through the combination of location and model and brought further to life with some post production.

This film is designed to help photographers on a Bride Location shoot to get a quick fix of images and to get the ideas flowing before a session.

This is a 3 minute 29 second Wedding slide show to inspire ideas as well as to give you image goals.

In this 3 part film Mark Cleghorn discusses Bride and Groom posing on location and how to maximise the variety in the short time we are allocated on a real wedding day.

Using a model bride and groom, Mark explains the use of location and the light combined with natural as well as fun and funky posing.

Each of the 3 parts takes place in the same location vicinity but with a radically different background in each film which will give you a better guide to using the location when combing posing.

Part 3 Includes -Posing The Sit , The Sat, The Walk and The Wall using an office glass frontage and the steps leading up, Mark creates some dynamic but simple images with the couple.

In these new WOW style apprentice films John and Osy the original PT4U apprentices join Mark Cleghorn on location were he sets out to shoot images to WOW!

On the rocks is the wedding theme, a Jurassic coastline is the location for the second WOW Apprentice shoot on a cold day. The images are dynamic through the combination of location and model and brought further to life with some post production.

Unlike previous apprentice films this time the boys get to see Mark working in his real and raw style but at the same time getting to ask why and how, something all photographers want to know. Mark tries to explain his thinking process when shooting to help the apprentices get a little more inside his head and thoughts as well as seeing the shot develop from location to location.

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PT4U Master Wedding Photographers And Business Guru’s- Gary and Sue Williams

Gary and Sue run a very successful Wedding and Portrait business from their home, the husband and wife team, both photographers, have created their own magical way of creating a happy client and at the same time making a superb living from photography – which after all is not a sin but an essential skill in running a business

In this film Gary and Sue take you behind the scenes on a real wedding, where you get to see and hear the real banter that goes on, plus how the 2 photographers have different rolls on the day.

Part 1 includes – Introduction to the wedding, The Camera Equipment, The Flash and Modifiers then the getting ready shots of the bride and entourage including the formal and informal portraits.

In this series of films you get to follow the two SWPP Apprentices, Lisa & Anna over 12 months on their route to higher qualifications and hence better photography skills. You will be able to track the Apprentices on their training journey using a combination of specific films on PhotoTraining4U as well as hands on monthly tuition with Mark Cleghorn on their route to becoming better photographers.

In this 3 part film Mark interacts with the Apprentices at one of Lisa’s locations as they are down at her locations for this training day to shoot portraits atthe second location, using just natural light to create the images.

Lesson 9 Part 3 includes – Location 2 – The apprentice continue shooting in the old military type location trying to make the most out of the misty weather. Mark talks about separation, composition, variety as well as a recap on the day.