IOP® provides a highly respected online wedding photography course to help you transition from amateur photographer to actually getting paid for delivering your services.
The Diploma in Wedding Photography is an online wedding photography course that covers all the bases you will need to start up in business and become a successful wedding photographer.
As well as all the technical aspects of photography and essential hints and tips for getting the perfect shot on the day, we also look at commercial aspects of setting up a wedding photography business.
From the conception of your business until launch, we can help guide you through the process and help you get up and running as a wedding photographer.
You don’t need any qualifications to join the course but you should have a basic knowledge of the settings of your camera.
You will start by studying set-up costs and equipment as well as marketing and pricing strategy, before moving on to planning and finding your niche.
Then it’s time to start studying the technical section where we break the wedding day down into sections and give you practical advice on the camera settings, lenses and lighting you will need to understand to get the best results.
Finally, we look at the people skills required and help you to gain the expertise needed to effectively organise groups, deal with nervous subjects and contingency plans for all eventualities.
You don’t need to have photographed a wedding to take this course. The Final Assignment will ask you to provide shots to highlight certain skills but we deliberately have not asked for these to be wedding shots. This makes the course accessible to anyone who wants to become a wedding photographer.
If you want a flexible wedding photography course that will give you the confidence and skills to succeed, take the Diploma in Wedding Photography.
Start today and enrol now.
If you aren’t ready to begin yet, have a look at the full set of modules in the wedding photography course here:
Each unit consists of different types of learning materials to appeal to all students and will be made up of study materials labelled READ, PRACTICE, WATCH, INTERACT.
Set-up costs & equipment
2 MODULES
READ » Set-up costs and equipment
Marketing & selling your business
3 MODULES
READ » Marketing & selling your business
PRACTICE » Practice Assignment
INTERACT » Marketing & selling your business test questions
Creating a website
4 MODULES
READ » Creating a website
WATCH » Creating a website video
INTERACT » Creating a website test questions
Pricing strategy
4 MODULES
READ » Pricing strategy
INTERACT » Mastering shutter speeds test questions
INTERACT » Optional marketing live chat with an expert
The Contract
1 MODULE
READ » The Contract
Planning your diary & admin
3 MODULES
READ » Planning your diary & admin
PRACTICE » Practice Assignment
INTERACT » Planning your diary & admin test questions
Planning the day
3 MODULES
READ » Planning the day
INTERACT » Planning the day test questions
Finding a niche
3 MODULES
READ » Finding a niche
INTERACT » Finding a niche test questions
Pre-wedding shoots
3 MODULES
READ » Pre-wedding shoots
PRACTICE » Practice Assignment
INTERACT » Pre-wedding shoots test questions
The client meeting
3 MODULES
READ » The client meeting
INTERACT » The client meeting test questions
Technical section
10 MODULES
READ » Introduction
READ » Bride getting ready
READ » At the wedding pre-ceremony
READ » Inside the church/ wedding venue
READ » Formal shots
READ » Reportage
READ » At the reception venue
INTERACT » Shot lists for printing
PRACTICE » Practice Assignment
INTERACT » Technical section test questions
Inspiration
16 MODULES
READ » 15 galleries for inspiration
Finding the light
3 MODULES
READ » Finding the light
INTERACT » Finding the light test questions
PRACTICE » Practice Assignment
Using Flash
4 MODULES
READ » Using Flash
READ » Using Flash case study
INTERACT » Using Flash test questions
PRACTICE » Practice Assignment
Controlling the weather
3 MODULES
READ » Controlling the weather
INTERACT » Controlling the weather test questions
Organising people
3 MODULES
READ » Organising people
INTERACT » Organising people test questions
Dealing with nervous subjects
3 MODULES
READ » Dealing with nervous subjects
INTERACT » Dealing with nervous subjects test questions
Book a 1-2-1 chat with your Tutor
Post-production & workflow
READ » Post-production & workflow
INTERACT » Post-production & workflow test questions
PRACTICE » Practice Assignment
Wedding Albums
READ » Wedding Albums
INTERACT » Wedding Albums test questions
FINAL ASSIGNMENT
READ » Final assignment case study
INTERACT » Create a portfolio of 12 images for feedback.
Certificate and feedback
In this unit, we ask you to tell us what you thought of the course and provide you with your Diploma in Wedding Photography certificate as well as your member badge.
