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About John Wilson
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Expertise
Over 25 years specializing exclusively in professional wedding photography. I can answer most questions relating directly to wedding photography concerning the business, film, digital, traditional & digital labs, marketing, effects, pricing & packaging, shooting outdoors and in-studio with multiple flash, color management and creating magazine style wedding albums. I can't answer questions regarding other fields of photography. I am a full-time self-employed pro wedding photographer.

Experience
About 25 years experience photographing weddings professionally. Past 3 years shooting digital exclusively.

Education/Credentials
Going to photography seminars and reading all the wedding photography books I can find then applying the techniques and new styles I've learned with each wedding. You always need to grow and learn to keep up in this field. With each new wedding you photograph, you must challenge yourself to do better work than your previous wedding. You must always have the goal of making the wedding photographs for a bride & groom be the best photographs they have seen of any wedding.

   

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Questions Answered By Expert  John Wilson 
In Category  Careers: Photography

SubjectDate Asked

Raw Photo Processing7/14/2008
  Q: I'm a part-time photographer shooting mostly weddings. A few months ago I began shooting raw and ...
  A: As a self-employed portrait/wedding photographer, here is what I found works best for me. In the ...
photography7/11/2008
  Q: my name is melissa and I'm 14. I know that I want to be professional photographer when I get ...
  A: As you may have noticed in my profile, I specialize as a portrait/wedding photographer. I do not do ...
Chattanooga Wedding Photographers7/1/2008
  Q: I'm a serious photographer considering going pro as a wedding photographer in the Chattanooga ...
  A: Hey Steve, Thanks for your photography questions. Since you describe yourself as a serious ...
Promoting Home Based Wedding Photography Business6/22/2008
  Q: Greetings John, I'm wanting to start a home based photography business. I've been checking out your ...
  A: I do not have a blog. While blogs are all the rage in the marketing community, the fact is a blog ...
Photography Business in Economic Ression6/16/2008
  Q: I appreciate the idea of your customers having recession proof jobs, but when their income is fixed ...
  A: While their incomes may remain basically the same, most of those recession proof jobs are also "high ...
Professional Photography and Recession6/15/2008
  Q: I've read you are a professional full-time self employed wedding photographer. How well is business ...
  A: I know there are a lot of photographers and videographers asking themselves those questions lately ...
DSLR4/14/2008
  Q: I got my first DSLR canon 5D as a present from my wife and i have been playing with it and i have ...
  A: To understand how the 5D camera focuses you should read the owner's manual. I shoot weddings with ...
Feel Jipped by friend4/14/2008
  Q: I got married a few years ago and asked my friend to be the photographer for my wedding as she had ...
  A: Since she is refusing to speak with you this requires you to take her to small claims court. There ...
Feel Jipped by friend4/13/2008
  Q: I got married a few years ago and asked my friend to be the photographer for my wedding as she had ...
  A: It is so sad that these situations and so many like them happen every year. Cherry and I are ...
Photography Questions3/30/2008
  Q: I'm a photgraphy student and am doing a career research paper on Wedding photography. I was ...
  A: Here are the answers. 1. I got into photography when some high school friends of mine became ...
Too many links?3/26/2008
  Q: John, Been reading some of your posts here. You've advised that working with other wedding vendors ...
  A: I can see the apparent discrepancy in what I've said in previous posts here at All Experts and what ...
Salary as a wedding photographer2/25/2008
  Q: John, I've read some of your posts and have checked out your website. You seem to be very busy ...
  A: I've been shooting weddings with medium format film using Pentax 645 cameras for over 23 years. ...
Wedding Photography1/7/2008
  Q: I am intrested in becoming a wedding photographer but I don't know what to do to get started or ...
  A: Some photographers and especially studios might want to do a background check. You fill out the ...
Wedding Photography1/7/2008
  Q: I am intrested in becoming a wedding photographer but I don't know what to do to get started or ...
  A: Formal training or acquiring credentials is not a licensing requirement anywhere in the United ...
Wedding Photography1/3/2008
  Q: I am intrested in becoming a wedding photographer but I don't know what to do to get started or ...
  A: You mentioned you love weddings and you love to take pictures. That's a great start for becoming a ...
Internet Marketing12/8/2007
  Q: I'm a photographer in Kentucky with a studio in my home. I've been in business about 2 years. Just ...
  A: I don't know what your specific marketing efforts currently consist of, but this is what works for ...
Bcoming a portrait and/or wedding photographer11/18/2007
  Q: I am 55 years old (hopefully far from dead!) and am thinking of a career change that could have me ...
  A: Learning from books doesn't work for everyone. Like you and so many other people, it can be faster ...
Marketing in a small town11/14/2007
  Q: John, I am a photographer new to the business, well fairly new. I have been in the field for about ...
  A: The quality, style & pricing of your work and the quality, style & pricing of your competitors are ...
Wedding Photography10/29/2007
  Q: my name is Rose and I am an amateur photographer and a senior in high school. I have been avidly ...
  A: For me, the best thing about being a self-employed wedding photographer is this is not a "dead end" ...
photo5/9/2007
  Q: i have one quick question for you. I like photography very much and i have been very good at it. I ...
  A: I appreciate your question. First I want to make sure you know that my answer is based on several ...
Wedding Photography.4/17/2007
  Q: My 8th grade class and I are doing a career based project. We are to pick a career we would like to ...
  A: I can only speak for myself. I'm a full-time self-employed wedding photographer with a home-based ...
large group4/12/2007
  Q: I have a canon 5d and will be shooting a large group 39 people. I have 3 lenses right now but am ...
  A: Of the 3 lenses you specified, my choice would be the 70 to 200. I'm assuming there is plenty of ...
photography business3/9/2007
  Q: I really am just starting small for now. Then later on in the summertime Im going to school for ...
  A: Those are some very good questions. With today's film and digital cameras there are a vast array of ...
digital backgrounds2/22/2007
  Q: Don, I'll try to be brief. I'll be doing photo keychains at corporate events. I've been asked ...
  A: I just found your question laying around in the "Unanswered Questions Pool". I see your question was ...
photogrophy1/25/2007
  Q: What type of education is required? What are the working conditions/environment? What kind of ...
  A: My expertise is specifically wedding photography. So I will answer your questions to the best of my ...
reprint rights12/20/2006
  Q: I'm fairly new at publishing and perhaps you can help. A journal wants to publish one of my pictures ...
  A: Several times a year I'm contacted by various electronic and paper publishers about using ...

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