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100 Techniques for Professional Wedding Photographers

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I started my business as a wedding photographer last year, and I bought this book hoping it would give constructive tips. I have heard some good things about Bill Hurter's wedding books so I thought this was a good choice. I finished reading it in a couple hours and I felt cheated. I found this book to be more about general photography than really focusing on wedding photography. There is a lot of information on the types of lenses available on the market and how to use basic camera functions. Furthermore, half of the book is common sense (for example: "Have Backup Equipment", "Dress for Success", "Compliment the Couple" and "Learn Everyone's Names") and the other half is various lighting techniques that would be used in-studio (example: "Using Background Light", "Add Kicker Lights", "Use Umbrellas"). Personally, I will not be purchasing any other Bill Hurter books, and I'll look for other more enriching and educational books instead.

This book had a lot of common scene kind of "tips" I was expecting something a little different. If your brand new to wedding photography then I think it would be helpful. But if you have some experience then I would skip it.

Bill Hurter's 100 TECHNIQUES FOR PROFESSIONAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS covers everything from preparing for the wedding shoot to establishing rapport with the participants, creating engaging portraits before and after the ceremony, traveling to the event, and more. Pros receive techniques specific to the wedding photography market, making this a key business book acquisition as well as a recommended pick for arts collections strong in photography.

If you were to buy only one book on the subject of wedding photography, this would be it. This book has a little bit of everything which also makes it a great reference source. The ideas and advice are practical and can easily be applied. Great images support the content. This is an impressive book and definitely recommend it.

Just droping a note to let you know i have enjoyed reading this book and is filled with usefull and interesting techniques.

I recomend it fully.

I've been doing wedding photography for 3 years. This book has a lot of suggestions I was already familiar with, but also has lots of ideas that are very helpful.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone getting started in wedding photography.

This book was helpful and had some good tips for wedding photography. I would recommend the book for persons just getting started in the business of wedding photography.

This book is nice. It goes over some of the basics and also some more advanced stuff. I've been doing photography for a year but now I'm getting some weddings into the mix so it was a nice way to look at photography from that angle -- and it covered some basics that I we tend to forget about sometimes.

I own quite a few of Bill Hurter's books, they really gave me such a great education when I was first starting out in photography - and this is an excellent addition to the library. It's always helpful to thumb through a compilation of top-tier photography, and this is a very well-designed collection with some excellent reviews of important techniques to know, as well as some truly inspirational ideas to keep in mind. I was delighted, too, to see my work included in this particular book, so of course I'm even more impressed this time around ;)