See the news item here:-

www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2012/04/27/spring-flower-show-2012-basks-in-sunshine/

These images were for a news item in the local press and covered the catwalk show and a number of the trade stands.

These images are to go with a gig review for www.harrogate-news.co.uk

The Harrogate Nursery Fair has awarded us the contract for official Photographer for the 2012 event.

We are delighted to be covering this event which will include general photography during the day and an awards ceremony at the Majestic Hotel.

Please get in touch if you are an exhibitor and would like any further images taking.

tim@timothycook.co.uk

The A.M.P. Awards (Association of Music and Promotion) is both a Music and Enterprise Competition involving the collaboration of pupils and staff at Secondary Schools across Yorkshire, Business Sponsors and Mentors, Music Industry Experts and Charity Partners.

Although based from from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, we work throughout the UK.

This can be a good option for your wedding as it gives you full use of all the images to use online, print or make into an album. Online there are many print houses offering a very high quality service. Also, for the wedding couple to spend time selecting and design the layout  can be a great experience, bringing back many of the memories from the day.

Our wedding on  disc package is £650

We have covered many weddings in Harrogate and gained a lot of understanding from both the photographer’s and client’s perspective. Many people say that they really don’t know anything about photography, but you do….

Professional Photography is really just doing what you would do yourself, just better!

When you come to look at how much to pay for wedding photography, approach it like taking-on any professional. Think about how many hours you would want them for on the day and allow time after for editing and processing images. During a wedding you can take 500 images so even just basic process can take 4 hours. Then simply think about what a reasonable hourly rate would be and multiply them up.

There are also some material costs, especially with albums. Some of our albums cost £500 to us to have printed.

Watch out for the cheap initial prices but a package that goes up greatly when you want to add a few extra hours, some extra prints or an album even.

Think carefully about what you will definitely want and what you may want in terms of prints. If you negotiate that you also have the images on disc then this isn’t a problem as you can print away as you wish.

As an example, say you want a photographer from 12am until 9pm with an album.

9 hours on the day plus 5 hours post processing at a rate of £50 per hour is  £700

add an album, £300 then a package price of £1000 would be good value.

For most of our work we use a Nikon D3 and D3x bodies with a variety of lenses. They are built like tanks and can take a lot of abuse. They are also, big, heavy and take a while to get out of a bag and fix a flash to. As an addition we have bought what is a pretty standard compact, a Sony DSC-HX9V  (to be precise!)

What a revelation.

It just shows how photography has changed and how accessible really good quality photography is.

A tiny unit that will take 1080P video one minute then zoom from as wide or as far as you are ever likely to need. The interesting thing is though how it does the thinking for you. A photographer will look at an image and quickly work out where the focus points are the exposure, if it will need flash etc. I haven’t managed to catch the little compact out yet on how it copes just with a press of the the on button.

What else though, well image stabilisation so you can get away with a ridiculous zoom without shake, face detection, blink detection (so it tells you when you photographed a blink)

A pro camera with big glass will always have the edge over a small compact in ultimate image quality. But this little compact takes you a long way there.

It’s not going to be the main camera for a shoot, but it will be coming along for more casual press work.