3 Day Weddings Workshop

Overview

Here at Lovegrove Consulting, we listen to our customers, and so have created an essential 3-day training programme. This amazing new workshop event, run by Damien, Julie and Marko, will combine tuition on how to shoot weddings, the business of wedding photography and how to get to grips with the post production editing process. This unique Lovegrove event aims to be the complete training package for photographers of all levels.

Day 1: Shooting Weddings
Learn how to plan and shoot a wedding, including the preparations at the start of the day, to getting to grips with flash when it's darker. Learn the tips and tricks of making wonderful pictures at every stage of a wedding.

Day 2: Wedding Image Processing Seminar
An all-in-one easy to understand post-production training day. This day will give you all the tools necessary to start editing and to create beautifully edited imagery that your customers will love. This day will give you an insight into the complete Lovegrove digital workflow. If you are new to raw shooting, or have limited digital manipulation knowledge then this day will be an ideal foundation.

Day 3: The Business of Weddings
A full, tips of the trade packed one-day seminar from Damien Lovegrove. Subjects covered include marketing, product, sales, finance, and customer care. A high value presentation packed with useful information from one of the top earning wedding photographers in the UK. Damien and Julie have photographed over 350 weddings, and average sales have been in excess of £7,500. This day will be opened up to photographers not attending the full 3 days.

Who should attend?

This workshop is designed to give wedding photographers the confidence and skills to take beautiful images that the client will love. Simple, repeatable techniques are taught to provide you with all the necessary skills to take your wedding photography further.

What you will have at the end of the day to take away:

1. Whatever the weather we will be producing portfolio images that you can use right away, on your website, in brochures or on your studio walls. Our models will always be patient with us to ensure you get the best images possible.

2. You will have a new repertoire of images you can shoot and, above all, access to professional image making skills that have a high repeatable value. You will have the edge over your competition and you will feel renewed excitement for wedding photography.

Please ensure you are familiar with your camera and flash, and know how to change settings quickly.

Timetable

09.00 - Workshop starts
17:30 - Workshop ends

Recommended kit list:

1. A DSLR camera
2. Two or three professional lenses covering 20mm to 200mm.
3. One TTL flash gun with a Sto-Fen or similar diffuser, preferably with a means of using it off camera.
4. A monopod with a ball and socket head (not a monopod head), a fast lens, or a camera capable of very high ISO. Buy a Gitzo Carbon Monopod here and a Manfrotto Ball Head here.

Please bring along all the kit you would normally use when shooting a wedding, including wet weather gear (although we hope it won't be necessary!).

Monopods
Damien and Julie always use a monopod at weddings. If you don't have one it will be worthwhile borrowing or buying one before the course as you may well find it frustrating to have movement on your images shot in low light. Do ensure you have a plate on the bottom of your camera to fix it to the monopod. Our advice is, 'if in doubt - bring it', as it would be frustrating to be without something.

Susie said: Having just come down to earth from three of the most inspiring days of my life, I want to thank you all.

Damien and Julie - the way you teach and the way you share is superb. Before the course, I knew where I wanted to go with my new business - now, I know how to get there! (And importantly, keeping myself on track!) The shooting day has given me so much more confidence, and I am so excited to go and shoot my next wedding. On the second day, I wrote 24 pages of notes - and I know there are some real gems within - trust me, I shall act upon them!

Marko - your expertise with Photoshop and Lightroom is awe-inspiring, and you are a brilliant teacher. Thank you so much, and thank you for the actions too. I can't wait to apply your teachings to my next set of images! Thanks must also go to Blaise and the people behind the scenes - you really do have a truly admirable set-up and your success is well deserved.

Neil said: I just want to say how professional, educational, courteous and well planned  the 3 day course was, please pass on my thanks to Julie, Damien and Marko. I will be booking with you again. Many thanks once more for a throughly inspirational three day workshop.

Mike said: Julie and Damien's method of training is fast paced and thoroughly enjoyable and at the end of day I felt enthused, invigorated utterly shattered too! I look forward to further courses with them in the future.

Today with Marko was probably the most enlightening eight hours I have ever spent and look forward to putting into action the skills I have learnt today.

David said: I would like to express my grateful thanks for the most useful 3 days of education I have ever experienced.
 
At some stage you must have been in the same position as us, knowing you can do better but not knowing how, and laying out the course to address this in the way you have is inspirational. The content of the course was exactly what I needed.
 
Beyond that, judging the skills of those in front of you to tune the content and understand what needed to be demonstrated and practiced made every moment count. The enthusiastic, knowledgeable, friendly, courteous, and highly interactive way it was all put across left me wanting for nothing.

The Lovegrove experience is clearly not constrained to photographic clients, it is an ethos across your business that I believe we all enjoyed throughout the 3 days of training, and one that I hope to emulate.
 
I have much to take in, but plans to implement my learning are already being formed. When they are in place and under way I hope to meet up again to help keep the plans in trim.

Booking your place

To secure your place on this workshop, scroll to the bottom of the page and add it to your basket.

All three days in this workshop course are available to book as individual training days.

Cancellation Policy

As our costs for each workshop remain the same no matter how many delegates attend, please note that just like any pre-booked tickets for the theatre, concert, flights etc, we are unable to give any refund in the event of non-attendance, regardless of the circumstances. The exception to this is if we have prior notice and are able to put a cancellation place back online AND your place is resold.  In this event we will of course make a full refund or credit to you. We also reserve the right to cancel any workshop if there is insufficient demand, especially if it means that our costs would be higher than our income.  Please therefore do not leave it until the last few weeks if you are interested in a particular date, as you may find that it has been removed!

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