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Leicestershire Wedding Photographer Steve Walton Scoops International Wedding Photography Award

Steve Walton — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:46:51 +0000

I have been been awarded the Mario Acerboni East Midlands Master Wedding Photographer of the Year 2011! I am delighted with this achievement which requires three images from one wedding to creatively illustrate before, during and after the marriage ceremony. This is a prestigous international award and is part of the annual professional photography showcase Master Photographer of the Year Awards. The glittering awards presentations and gala dinner is held every October, in 2011 the event is taking place at the Hilton Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Steve Walton FMPA FBIPP FRSA is the highest professionally qualified Master Photographer in Leicestershire. Contact Steve for availability and information to secure the very best in stylish, contemporary wedding photography.

www.stevewaltonphotography.com

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Steve Walton Photography Offers Wedding Photos on iPad

Steve Walton — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:13:17 +0000

Steve Walton Photography now offers you the option to have your wedding photographs pre-loaded onto a brand new iPad of your choice. Simply add the cost of your chosen iPad to the standard wedding coverage fee and you have the ultimate portable electronic wedding album! In addition to single image slideshow transitions, storybook-style album layouts are also available for your iPad to make a stunning complement to your matted or storybook wedding album or as a stand-alone electronic album package.

This exciting new wedding photography option is incredibly versatile, HD video clips can also be included in your slideshow to further enhance your wedding photography package. Add Steve Walton’s internationally recognised talent for creating elegant fashion-inspired wedding images combined with documentary HD video footage of your wedding day and you will have a stunning, easily portable and versatile wedding album presentation that you can take with you anywhere.

Broadband user? Stream your interlaced still wedding images and HD video footage from your iPad through a new Apple TV (only £99) and you can re-live your wedding day experience in high definition on your HDTV.

Want to know more?

Contact Steve Walton for full details of this offer and how to obtain the very best in stylish, contemporary wedding photography and HD videography in Leicestershire, presented on an iPad of your choice!

steve at stevewaltonphotography.info (replace at with @)

Photography and the signing of the Register.

Steve Walton — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:18:39 +0000

This can be one of the most frustrating parts of a wedding ceremony from a professional wedding photographer’s point of view, especially in England. Church of England ministers and Local Authority-employed Registrars seem to be completely divided and often incoherent over what I, as the official photographer, should be allowed to do when it comes to the signing of the Register. The marriage ceremony is their responsibility and the church, hotel room or other venue is their domain. I am a professional photographer and I respect their position, but my aim is to record your day as unobtrusively and artistically as possible. Every part of that day belongs to you, it does not belong to the photographer, videographer, minister, verger or Registrar. As a full-time professional wedding photographer of well over a decade, I have seen all of the other bit-players on that list behave unprofessionally at weddings. No doubt each of those has encountered an unprofessional photographer and that is certainly the reason behind the current shambles of divided opinion amongst celebrants.

Quite simply, some Registrars and ministers will allow me photograph the signing as it happens, which allows me to create believable documentary images. Then there is the type of celebrant who, for reasons best known only to themselves, will not allow any photography and insist on me setting the shot up with a mock register and a biro for the couple to grip and then grin inanely at each other for the camera, after the event.

The point is, if you want a genuine documentary record of your wedding, then tell the Registrar or Minister that that is what you want and insist upon them allowing me to do the job for which you are paying me. You can even tell them that I don’t actually photograph the entry on the register page. I, of course, am a professional. I will continue to politely introduce myself to your celebrant on your wedding day in order to find out what their ground rules are. I will always abide by whatever rules they see fit for that particular day in the knowledge that the rules will change by the following week. Clear as mud, isn’t it?