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Weekly Q&A’s — Inaugural Members
This page is for members of The Wedding School who enrolled during the inaugural 8-weeks in February 2016. You have questions, Susan has answers. Each week Susan will be recording a special Q&A sessions to answer questions from the Facebook group or posted as comments in the individual course segments. This is where those Q&A videos live for this inaugural group.
Week 1 — February 15
- Q: How have my prices changed in the last two years?
- Q: What does the industry look like today in 2016 compared to a couple years ago?
Week 2 — February 22
- Q: How did it work for you meeting clients at your home?
- Q: How do you send the Wedding Day Worksheet?
Week 3 — February 29
- Q: How do you print your wedding day worksheets?
- Q: Accounting questions about personal and business funds? (Ask an accountant)
- Q: Should I keep my old married name for my current business?
- Q: Why are you showing us all your secrets? Aren’t you afraid you are helping competitors?
Week 4 — March 7
- Q: What’s your contingency plan if anything unforseen happens and you absolutely can’t shoot a wedding?
- Q: Are same sex couples too narrow of a target market for my business?
- Q: What are your feelings about Periscope?
- Q: What is a reasonable rate to start base on my experience or area?
- Q: How do I raise my rates when I’m in the upper middle range?
- Q: Is there an expiration date on being a wedding photographer?
Week 5 — March 14
- Q: What if my getting ready room has light coming in from many different directions and no curtains that can be drawn to control that light?
- Q: How do you handle an outdoor ceremony where the bridal party is in severe dappled light and the weather is at extremes?
- Q: How do you handle the album design process?
- Q: What is involved with getting that perfect print to submit to competition?
- Q: When discussing timeline with clients. How do you determine how much coverage they might need?
Week 6 — March 21
- Q: A venue contacted me about using my pictures for marketing and advertising purposes on their website and other marketing materials. Should I let them use them for free?
- Q: I started creating specific vendor galleries on my Smugmug site, I’m just curious what you think of this idea?
- Q: In the bridal portraits deep dive, what you were doing with the reflector with the square cut out of the middle?
- Q: Where I live, it’s not uncommon to have 20 people in the wedding party and large families. Is it better to invest in a strobe or use multiple diffused flashes?
Week 7 — March 28
- Q: How do we get a perfectly exposed subject and then the remaining image darker?
- Q: How do you handle dappled light? Two trees cover a venue but one tree shades the boys and the other tree leaves the girls in hot light?
- Q: Honestly one thing I would love is to see an entire wedding of Susan Stripling Mautner.
Week 8 — April 4
- Q: About the Upcoming Live Summit!
- Q: Rachel Brenke’s Top Legal Traps.
- Q: Ice Light vs Video Light?
- Q: Would I be mad to consider adding a D4 to my line up?
- Q: I’d love to see Susan and Sandra all outfitted for a wedding?
- Q: What deep dives do YOU want next for the learning library?
April 11
- Q: How do you handle wedding guests (often Mothers) who want to give their input on photos?
- Q: Do you advise brides or bridesmaids on hairstyle based on weather, or is that overstepping?
- Q: Do you have a clause in your contract specifically allowing releasing sneak peek photos on Facebook, Instagram, or Blogs?
- Q: Should I use a giveaway during a bridal show?
- Q: Is it standard to get grip-and-grins?
- Q: Any tips on things to look for when hiring second shooters?
May 2
- Q: Back Button Focus?
- Q: On problem solving crappy locations: Which Rogue is that on the flash?
- Q: Instagram Ads with Animoto: Do you use hashtags?
- Q: Pricing + Profitability: When you say you’re including digital files in a package In what form you give them the file?
- Q: Post-Production Editing: Do you include the blog/vendor images in the client’s images as well?
May 9
- Tip: Susan’s Battery Charging Strategy
- Q: What to do when the venue does not allow photos during the ceremony?
- Q: Bride hired me for wedding day only coverage, but used another photographer for her bridal portraits?
- Q: Anyone else have a full-time job outside of their photography career?
- Comment: Love looking are all your photos!
- Q: After placing bride by window and turning off lights, makeup artists says she needs the lights on to work.
- Q: I see you have a blue wall behind your editing station, don’t you have a concern over color balance?
- Q: You had mentioned the Pixel function from Facebook for ads?
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I was hoping to download and be able to print? 🙂
I would love to have these in print!!!
Yes I want the handbooks. I was going to print them after download, but that takes a toll on the home computer printers! Please please, get them printed! here is my email [email protected]
Definitely would be interested in purchasing the handbooks!!
the handbooks look great! are they available? 🙂 thank you
An other yes on wanting to purchase the printed copies =)
Yes yes for the books! I asked you about this when I signed up for the weeding school, and say it again! they are so beautiful I would love to have them printed.
Printed handbooks would be really nice.
I’d love the printed handbooks as well!
I would love the printed handbooks!
Yes please 😀
I just opened one of the handbooks and saw it was 92 pages; it made me cringe thinking of printing it, and figuring out a way to keep it in good shape. So, yes! I’d love to be able to get printed books!
I’d love the printed handbooks as well!
Super interested in the guides being printed .. I am a book nerd!
Super interested in the guides being printed .. I am a book nerd!
I would love to get the printed handbook too.
I would love the Handbooks in print if you decide to do a print run. Thanks 🙂
Brilliant Susan. I got alot of my questions answered
Thanks so much for answering my question Susan! That makes me feel so much better about my buisness name and also giving me the permission I felt like I needed to make my decision, and maybe one day I will go a hybrid approach, but for now I am just going to own my buisness name and stop feeling bad about it!