2021 dates will be announced once global travel resumes due to COVID-19
2021 dates will be announced once global travel resumes due to COVID-19
This photography workshop is a business intensive. It's for photographers that want to experience longevity is the industry.
Its focus is on the practicalities of running a successful full-time wedding photography business. You chose this workshop because you're thirsty for information and desperately looking for something more. We're here to give you that. We are here to help you find your way as a photographer and give you the tools to create a business designed to help you with longevity in your business and ultimately give you lasting fulfillment and freedom in your personal life.
In this intensive, we will cover the topics that we think are the most important in taking the steps to owning the right business and creating the right work for you.
It doesn't matter if you are an amateur photographer, just at the very start of your photography career or a professional photographer who has been in the game for a while wanting to refine your focus and overhaul your business - all skill levels are welcome to this two day event.
The workshop is taught by Dan O'Day and Samm Blake. Over two days we will be covering the following items :
- Putting your best content forward
- Finding YOU in your brand and what you offer
- Looking at your work more objectively
- Identifying the weaknesses in our work
- Finding a strong and consistent editing look to complete your photographs
- Understanding how other people are perceiving your work
- Building a strong price list
- Managing client expectations
- Workflow / from booking a client to order fulfillment
- Displaying and sharing your images
- Marketing yourself
- Legal stuff
- Creating accountability
- Open Forum Questioning - anything goes
How much does it cost to attend?
The ticket price is $1200 per person for the two-day workshop (you will make it back in one wedding we help you book, promise). This includes your seat at the workshop, lunch, drinks, snacks and a bag of goodies for you to enjoy alongside the journey.
What's the times for each day?
The workshop goes from 10 am – 6 pm every day. Even though the formal teaching ends at 6pm, you have the option to join us for dinner & drinks on the final night. You are responsible for making your way to and from the event each day.
What to bring?
Your laptop (not essential, but preferred), hard drives containing complete weddings, your pricing information and anything else you show to clients.
How to book in?
A 50% retainer is due immediately in order to reserve your seat – the remainder 50% is due 4 weeks prior to the first day of the workshop. A final invoice will be sent out to you at this time.
If you purchase a seat and find you are in a position you are no longer able to attend, there are no refunds but you are welcome to sell your seat to another keen attendee.
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Dan O'Day is an AIPP Master Photographer with two gold bars and is the current AIPP Australian Wedding Photographer of the Year.
He is an Australian based Photographer, specializing in wedding and Fine Art photography. Influenced by his former life as a contemporary artist, Dan’s wedding images reflect the commitment to his art practice, refining techniques and constantly developing & refining his practice.
Since going full time with his wedding business in 2009, Dan has managed to run a highly successful wedding business – Dan is a highly sought-after keynote speaker regularly commissioned for weddings, speaking engagements and judging commitments all over the world.
Dan’s Fine Art photography has been exhibited extensively Australia-wide and also held in collections in London, Paris, and Germany.
Dan was recently published as “one of the top 10 contemporary wedding photographers in the world” by Bill Hurter (Author, Former Editor in Chief at Rangefinder and After Capture Magazines).
In 2010 Capture Magazine recognized Dan as one of the Top 5 Emerging Wedding Photographers in Australia. The same year Dan was the recipient of the highly sought after Ilford Trophy for the Highest Scoring Print at the Australian Professional Photography Awards (APPA). Dan has been awarded the titles of ACT AIPP Wedding Photographer of the Year, Illustrative Photographer of the Year, Portrait Photographer of the year and overall Professional Photographer of the Year.
Dan has also won the AIPP Australian Creative Photographer of the Year and with the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP).
Dan’s wedding work has been published in VOGUE Australia, Frankie Magazine, Rangefinder, CAPTURE MAG and Better Photography to name a few.
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Samm Blake is an Australian photographer currently based in New York.
With over a decade of professional experience, Samm’s photographic journey has assumed a rich and varied path. Having studied Photomedia and Journalism at Edith Cowan University, her career began with documentary work exploring issues pertaining to isolation and Australian culture. Combining a fine arts background with a skilled and sensitive eye for portraiture, her images garnered acclaim for their honesty, vulnerability, and unfeigned connection to its subjects—qualities that translated exceptionally well to her next creative endeavor: documenting weddings.
Since launching her full-time wedding photography business in 2007, Samm’s work has received global recognition. She was named as one of Australia’s Top Ten Wedding Photographers by Capture Magazine two years in a row, and among the Top Ten Wedding Photographers in the World by American Photo Magazine in 2013.
Over the past 15 years of documenting weddings, she’s photographed celebrations across the world, from Iceland to Indonesia, the UK to the UAE and beyond, bringing unique editorial and artistic sensibilities to the wedding world.
Her work has been published in Martha Stewart Weddings, Harper's Bazaar, Rangefinder, Capture, California Weddings.
An entrepreneur at heart, Samm cares fiercely about empowering fellow artists take the leap into self-employment. She teaches and speaks regularly at events and conferences worldwide, sharing what she’s learned about creating successful businesses that stay true to one’s unique creative vision.