Daniel Griffiths is cutting down from over 80 weddings per year to around 70 – by raising his prices again! He's too busy to take on more clients and he primarily works alone. When I asked about his wedding workflow, his advice was to shoot more, edit less for a streamlined wedding photography business.

Considering Daniel shoots around 4000 frames per wedding day and editing time is between 30 and 60 minutes per wedding, he is one to practice what he preaches. One of the “secrets” to his streamlined and simplified workflow is his couples get almost all of the 4000 images he captured on the wedding day!

In this interview, Daniel explains how he does it and more importantly… why he does it his way. You'll be surprised at his approach and probably make changes to your workflow following this interview.

Here's some of what we cover:

  • Daniel's photojournalistic background  and his start with weddings “on the side”
  • His streamlined workflow for shooting 4000 wedding images in a day
  • Why giving all the images to the client is the perfect system
  • Processing the files and giving them “The Treatment”
  • Shooting 60-70 weddings per year and how it's still possible in todays market
  • Destination weddings and the effect they've had on Daniel's business
  • Using smart objects for album designing and avoiding lengthy photoshop post processing
  • The experience is what leads to so many wedding referrals and how you can get more in your business by following Daniel's approach
  • Photography workshops and why they are harming our industry
  • Getting right in camera, how Daniel does it and how it can dramatically cut down post production
  • Using white balance presets for every location
  • Album designing with indesign and the benefits of staying within Adobe for designing
  • Why you shouldn't be upselling after the wedding day and the hermit could be causing your wedding photography business
  • Why a great sale could lead to a bitter experience for your couples and less work for you later
  • How to get two wedding bookings from every wedding you shoot without paying a cent
  • How to fool the wait staff and get fed at a wedding with your dress style
  • Following photographers whose style you DON'T like may be more helpful than following those you admire
There is no doubt that Daniel has a unique approach to shooting his weddings and his post production workflow. Following this interview, I'm reassessing the way I do things in my business, I'm sure you'll be doing the same in yours.

Daniel Griffiths wedding photography workflow

Premium Members

Daniel attributes his biggest leap forward in the business of wedding photography to his first destination wedding. From this point on, he felt like he as a photographer was seen differently by his clients.

Premium members are treated to Daniel explaining exactly how to book your first destination wedding and what has led him to European holidays every year since his first wedding plus regular trips to 8 other countries to photograph weddings.

By following his simple steps, you could realistically be booking your first destination wedding next season.

Daniel Griffiths Photography Interview

What is your big takeaway?

Following this interview with Daniel, I'd love to know what your biggest takeaway is – what is the one thing that you'd like to implement or remember from what he had to share? Let me and other listeners know by leaving your thoughts in the comments below.

If you have any questions regarding Daniel's workflow that I missed or a specific question, feel free to add them below and he'll happily answer them for you. There are absolutely no silly questions and chances are, if you're wanting to know the answer to something, other listeners will too. Get the conversation started by using the comments area below.

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Daniel Griffiths Photography Interview

Links to people, places and things mentioned in this episode:

Daniel's website – DG Photos
Daniel on Facebook
Sony XQD Cards
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe InDesign – Daniel's preferred album design software
Asuka Books – Wedding Books
Vision Art – Wedding Albums
i-do.com.au – online wedding directory
Easy weddings – online wedding directory
Janis Ratnieks – Daniel's wedding photographer
Tim Pascoe – Daniel's wedding photographer
Marcus Bell – Studio Impressions

That's it for me this week, hope everything is going well for you in life and business. I'd love for you to leave a comment below about your biggest takeaway from this episode.

Speak soon

Andrew