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Hi, I am considering to attend a wedding videography "masterclass", related on technical and marketing skills. Without saying which, I just wanted to know if any of you ever did such a step and if it was worthed. Thanks for advices

@davjd You may be referring to Ray Roman? If not then check out "Wedding Cinematography Essentials with Ray Roman" at Creativelive. I believe if you apply everything in Ray's training then the rest is up to your experience and natural talent.

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As suggest bu @Vitaliy_Kiselev I post my question here, hopping for your addvice.

Hello, I have a quite "simple" question (maybe the answer won't be so simple). If you want to open of wedding photography business in USA, what do you have to do regarding to the law ? Should you register yourself somewhere ? I guess you probably have different possibility ? Do you suggest one better than an other one for a new company ? I m planing to open a wedding photography business with no studio. And I have read some article regarding taxe that you should paye or not , depending if you sell some object (like a wedding book), but didn't really understand every thing...

Wedding videography or videography in general is my personal passion and in a perfect life I wish it was what I did for a living. I work in IT full time and have done for 20 years and that pays the bills and allows me and my family to live quite happily. At weekends, free time at work or whenever I can I am reading about\playing with cameras and making videos. These videos are mainly of of days out, occasions with friends and family and other such events. I have also been piad to do weddings for friends of friends recently and the feedback has been very postive.

I really enoy the creative process and the look on peoples faces when they watch back my creations with huge smiles on their faces. I always feel I am fighting against time to enojy my hobby what with othe work and family comittments but as a hobby\passion it is what I truly enjoy. I dont hate my day job but even when I am work my passion consumes my mind.

With this in mind it has crossed my mind contsantly over the past couple of years whether to take the plunge or not and become a full time wedding videographer. On one hand I get to do the thing I love, and get paid for it so it must be a great idea right?

On the other hand, it would mean being my own boss, worrying about jobs coming in, working weekends away from family and changing what I would class as a creative free passion into more of a strict "job like" task to get the footage I need and to turn the workaround as quickly as possible.

This money pressure would then surley take away the passion and creative freedom I currently possses from filming only as a hobby and not a role that the mortgage relies on?

I suppose you dont know until you try it, but I dont know if I am prepared to risk it and lose the enjoyment of the hobby which filiming currently is...

Any thoughts greatly appreciated..

@Sph1nxster Thanks for your comments. I believe weddings is the only viable option at this stage as I have a small portfolio of wedding work already under my belt and it is easy to market yourself in this area through social media. Other more serious videography work I assume would require a long history of work, qualifications and years of knowledge. It seems with weddings most couples are happy to sign you up once they have seen a few examples of you work or you have been recommened through a friend, This wouldn't be true of more commerial work however?

May I ask what your previous full time job was and what type of videography do you do now?..are you full self employed?..do you find the new role still fulfills your passion now that it is required to pay your bills?