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Church Photography Ban List
When getting married at a church I would strongly advise both the Bride and Groom to be check with the priest directly regarding photography access.
Some priests will not allow any photography to take place during the wedding service. This means that you will miss out on those very special moments during the service like giving of the rings, the little glances between the bride and groom, the first steps as husband and wife, the kiss, the tears of emotion.
This ban on photograhy is nothing to do with the church or any church guidlines this is purely down to the priests own discretion. So please check as early as possible when booking the church that photography access will be granted clearly stating what you want on your wedding day.
Let's not forget when you pay to hire a church the church is entering into a legal contract to provide you with said service as stated between both parties so make crystal exactly what you want on the big day and what access and pictures you expect.
Below are a list of church's that will not allow photography to take place during the service.
St Mary's Church, Eston Sqaure, Eston, Middlesbrough
Been working on a personal project over this weekend putting together some concept shots around the Seat Leon shoot from last week. Basically playing with some new rain and water effects I have been perfecting in photoshop. These effects are not plug ins but use multiple effects with in photoshop this allows me to do these effects on any PC simply by taking my actions with me. Take a look below to see some draft shots.

Finally got to attend my first Flickr meet last weekend where a group of avid photographers got to meet for the first time. They where all member of the
Cleveland Camera Club flickr group and we all met at Saltburn By The Sea and it's stunning pier.
All these shots where taken with a Nikon D300 with a Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 DX lense with a B&W 0.9 Density Filter various shutter times where used below are some of the days highlights.
The shot below was taken when still light so the density filter came in handy here to capture the water movement.

1 hour later and the light was dropping fast.

This shot was taken outside the Ship pub at the base of Saltburn Bank.

And finally it was so cold we all went in the Ship for a pint or two near the log fire.

It was an enjoyable day and nice to meet other members of the flickr group many thanks to you all for making me feel welcome. If you would like to see more of my shots from this meet then
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A very busy week this last week with a shoot around the Seat Leon Cupra Sport. Stunning cars and awesome hot hatchbacks in their own right. These shots where taken with a Nikon D300 with a Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 DX lense with additional lighting provided by multiple Nikon speedlights including SB800's and SB600's all triggered with a mixture of Nikon's CLS system or Elinchrom Skyport Triggers.
Here are some of the highlights.




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A very busy week this last week with a shoot around the Seat car range in particular the Seat Leon FR and the Seat Leon Cupra Sport. Stunning cars and awesome hot hatchbacks in their own right. These shots where taken with a Nikon D300 with a Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 DX lense with additional lighting provided by multiple Nikon speedlights including SB800's and SB600's all triggered with a mixture of Nikon's CLS system or Elinchrom Skyport Triggers.
Here are some of the highlights.




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As part of an earlier shoot over at the Infinity site I also paid a visit to the Middlehaven Developement based alongside the Riverside Football Stadium in Middlesbrough. I wanted to take some updated shots of the new College being built on this site as I have been documenting this since the building was first being built and the rest of the Middlehaven developement as it grows.
Below are a couple of the shoots highlights.


Been out having a little bit of fun late yesterday evening doing a shoot around the new Infinity Bridge that is being built near Stockton on Tees.
This is such a beautiful additional to the local area and a stunning sculpture in it's own right take a look at the pictures below to see what I mean.

I decided to take a break and shoot other landmarks that are part of this site including the new Wolfson Research Institute below.

This next image was taken at moonlight.

Got to admit this is a real stunner.