Photography Training in Leeds

I am always prepared to look at different styles of photography and to adapt new ideas into my wedding photography, so I was very pleased to go along to-day to a training day with Brett Harkness, who is undoubtably one of the best international wedding photographers in the country. We spent the day in and around Adel Church in Leeds. Here are some of the images.

Wentbridge House Wedding Photography

Whilst Yvonne travelled down to South Yorkshire to film a wedding at Ringwood Hall, near Chesterfield, Alex and I travelled across to Campsall near Doncaster to photograph the wedding of Natalie and David. We always attend rehearsals and after seeing the church I was really looking forward to their ceremony. Good photography is about using light and the lighting in their church was just awesome. Natalie was driven to the church by the lovely Claire who owns Beau's & Belle's Wedding Cars at Darrington. It was really nice to see Claire again as we had filmed her wedding quite a few years ago! David has something of a passion for cars and I think that he must have had a quite a large part in the selection of the vehicle. He chose Claire's Bentley Flying Spur which (so I'm told!) is the world's fastest four door car and costs over £150,000, so two trips in such a special car certainly added to the enjoyment of his day! They did actually beat me to Wentbridge but I still say that is because they went a shorter way than I did! I must say Natalie walked down the aisle with a huge smile on her face and she never stopped smiling all day! Here is a selection of their photographs. I don't usually mention the bride's bouquet on these blogs but I did think that Natalie's was particularly nice so I've included a rather nice photo of it, so thanks to Steel Magnolia in Doncaster for providing such beautiful flowers!

Waterton Park Wedding

It was back to our favourite venue at the Waterton Park Hotel last week for the wedding of Emma and Andrew. I just love Waterton as there are so many places where you can take great photos, both inside and out. Plus all the staff are so great! Emma and Andrew were really fun to photograph and were so nice. It's a really great job being a wedding photographer when you have a smashing couple in a wonderful venue. For the last shot of the day I got out my new Elinchrom Quadra lights to make a rather special last photo - or three photos to be exact - we photographed Waterton at night then added in the photo of Emma and Andrew which we took when we could finally prise Emma from the dance floor. The moon was then added separately to make one one photograph from three photos. The wonder of Photoshop!