Help with photographer in Cornwall pls!!

Hi Ruth!,

Decent, consistent togs are hard to find. I'm not local to Cornwall so don't know anyone (sorry) but loads on here will do.

Assuming you want anyone decent and assuming they are £1000 then they would have to shoot 50 weddings a year to earn an average wage after insurances, equipment costs, advertising and all associated things like that.

Plus most togs don't do anywhere near that much and from start to finish one all day wedding can take 6 or 7 working days to do.

One pro camera can cost £5000 but an artistic eye is priceless (and chargeable).

Out of the names above Alan Law looks the most personable. The first two whilst excellent appear quite staged in their photos....so consider what you want at the end when the photos are delivered.

The average price I've seen is the £1500 mark. Someone can do 35 weddings a year and earn a decent wage from that.

Http://www.shahphoto.co.uk/

Did my friend's wedding - the photos looked great, no idea of the cost though.

Thanks guys for the replies!

Cheers Chris, very eye opening

Random I will be sure to have a look when my chubby hubby2B gets in.

Much love!

Ruthie

We are having Helen Morcom, and it is under £1000. She is really nice, and her past work looks good.

I agree with Chris in regards to photography price - a good set of equipment will start at at least £10000 so if someone is doing it for £300 he is simply a chancer.

I'm based in Scotland so don't know anyone in your region who I could recommend but if you still struggling Im happy to do a bit of driving.

www.pm-photography.co.uk

This is a valid point, although in reality many photographers do other work when not photographing weddings including portraiture, corporate and other image creative strands....so their income is not solely wedding based.

This is true. It will depend on the persons alternative income streams.

You get some togs who charge £500 because they work 9-5 Mon-Friday elsewhere and want to supplement their income.

In those cases you have to really check them out as to why they aren't doing it full time. Although I do know of one good photographer who does this (but charges a lot more).

A friend of a family friend is Stewart Girvan and he is based in Cornwall. I've seen his pics on facebook and they look stunning, but not sure on price etc

I think my photographer covers Cornwall - Ian and Kitty Wright. They're Exeter based so I wouldn't like to guess how much travel could be.

Have you tried looking in the back of Wed magazine? They have a lot of suppliers in there, many of whom are Plymouth based which isn't so far to travel.