Aaduki Multimedia Insurance

Aaduki Multimedia Insurance offers cover for business equipment and images, Public and Products Liability, Employers Liability, Professional Indemnity, Business Interruption, Money, Personal Accident and Sickness as well as Buildings and Contents! With policies designed from everyone from amateur enthusiasts through to professional photographers, journalists, videographers and film makers we really do have a policy that is right for you..

ACS

ACS specialise in repairing all makes of camera and optical equipment. Whatever the problem, from just simply cleaning the CCD to a major repair, you can rely on us.
FREE camera check at the show see the side bar.

T: 01953 889 324

Adobe

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. Our award-winning software and technologies have set the standard for communication and collaboration for more than 25 years, bringing vital and engaging experiences to people across media and to every screen in their lives, at work and at play. The impact of Adobe® software is evident almost everywhere you look. Whether people are collaborating at work, transacting online, or socializing with friends, businesses use Adobe software and technologies to turn digital interactions into richer, high-value experiences that reach across computing platforms and devices to engage people anywhere, anytime. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies.

Aperture Books

Our high quality hand crafted photo books are printed onto heavyweight stocks using HP wet ink digital printing technology. Each book in our deluxe range is individually hand sewn by skilled book binding professionals, quite simply the results are stunning. At less than £100, we offer the best photobooks available in the market today!

We print and finish our books in Woking Surrey, the centre of the universe.

Our award winning easy to use software is free to download.

We have an amazing sample offer, allowing you to purchase the books at an incredibly low introductory price. Why not come and see us at the show.

Beaver Lodge Prints

Beaver Lodge Prints provide a range of framing services to the professional photographer, creating beautiful wall and desk display products from your digital images.  Our flexible approach to framing allows the creative photographer to unleash their design skills to create the ultimate display frame.  Our simple and easy to use studio framing catalogue will guide you through the design process, but for the more creative photographers we can offer a full bespoke service for that touch of individuality.  Our elegant yet durable Photoblox block frames are always in demand in a range of three colours; available as a self assembly or finished product.  All of our products are carefully crafted in our Essex based workshop which is evident in the quality of our frames. If you want to know more, drop by our stand for an informal chat on how we can get you started.

Canon UK

Get your hands on the latest Canon cameras, G1X, 1DX and D4. Try out the latest Canon lenses. All at this show.

Canon is a world-leading innovator and provider of imaging and information technology solutions for the home and office environments.

Canon prides itself on being a highly customer-focused company which supplies not just innovative products but also the highest level of service and IT support and consulting. This approach has led to the Canon brand being leader in many of its markets.

Canon is delighted to be attending Photovision in 2012 and will be demonstrating its current range of cameras and lenses.

Click Group

Bump2Baby

Since 2009, The Click Group has been supplying photographers with contact details of women as they progress though pregnancy and into motherhood. Our data is supplied through our partner - Bounty, the UK’s largest prenatal and postnatal data company, at various stages of the baby’s development:

•  Prenatal (6 & 8 months pregnant)
• 10 months old – as they approach their 1^st Birthday
• 22 months old – as they approach their 2^nd Birthday

We are the only provider that is able to give you this pre-natal data.

Leads are just 50p* + VAT each.

We even supply you with letter templates and postage cheaper than the Royal Mail!

To claim your share of 1.6 Million quality data records per year, come to the Click Group stand.

http://www.clickconnectioncorp.com/baby-freshclick-en.html

*depending on data sets taken

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The Photographic Organiser (TPO)

TPO will help you to become better organised, more efficient and profitable by allowing you to spend more time shooting and selling and less time worrying about administrative tasks!  TPO will simply manage almost every aspect of your photography business for less than the cost of just one single 8” x 6” print per month!

TPO operates on either Mac or Win O/S and it has a full support package so you won’t be left out in the cold. Manage all your enquiries, prospects, clients and suppliers in one place. With many useful features and rich functionality it will help you to keep on top of all sessions, viewings, other appointments, production tasks and appointment reminders. It has various marketing features built in and gives you access to financial reports to support your business.

To find out how TPO can help you come to the Click Group stand.

Creativity Backgrounds

Creativity Background papers have been the top choice of photographers for over 30 years worldwide. We at Creativity deal directly with professional photographers like you! No middlemen, no hidden charges, just exceptional value and efficient friendly service.

4 for 3 offer! 
Yes! That’s right! Buy three paper rolls and get one free, plus delivery to mainland UK costs just £6 (inc vat) irrespective of order value, and it’s free delivery on all orders over £150!  Our 2.72m x 11m rolls are just £35+vat and with the four for three offer that’s just £105+vat for 4 rolls plus delivery!

We also have 10% off our colour of the month, helping you save money! Have a look online and see what it is this month.
 

Exceptional Quality
Guaranteeing consistency and quality, all our Creativity Background papers are heavyweight for excellent drape and have a non-reflective "vellum" finish ensuring there are no hotspots during the shoot. All our papers made from pulp harvested from sustainable forests. Have you tried our Ultra Black yet which is 2 stops darker than our main range black?

Gallery inspiration
We feature some of the best studio photography on our online gallery. Have a look at what contemporary photographers in fashion, wedding, boudoir, baby and social portrait photography are creating. Using coloured backgrounds really can help improve your portfolio, set you apart and increase your business. To be considered for our gallery please contact us.

Range
With our extensive range of over 50 colours (including chroma-key), roll sizes up to 3.56m, we also stock muslins, fabrics, software, velour, varitones, kits and support systems we are much favoured by professional photographers. We look forward to meeting you! 

"It's whats behind your great images"

Eizo

At EIZO we specialise in creating the world's best visual display products for the most demanding users, including those within the photographic industry.  Established over 40 years ago we have the experience and expertise to ensure that each and every monitor manufactured by our specialist Japanese team, leaves our facilities equipped and ready to go, helping our customers the world over with their daily work.  Everything about EIZO is outstanding.  It excels in its ability to produce high quality monitors which ingeniously feature environmentally friendly attributes; technology to help protect its users health as well as industry leading functions to assist the users work.  Its ColorEdge range of monitors are designed to the highest standards ensuring they are able to showcase the world’s best photography – that is why so many photographers have an EIZO ColorEdge monitor as part of their photographic kit – it doesn’t just stop at the camera.

F2 Freelance Photographer Magazine

F2 is the magazine by and for freelance photographers concentrating on the business of working as a photographer in the industry. Photographers' work is showcased to a high standard, with top quality reproduction and incisive interviews. Whether you're established or starting out, if you're working freelance or working towards going freelance, it's a must-read.

Graphistudio

A New Concept
Convert your wedding album and shape your dreams into a time capsule of happy memories. The latest innovation from Graphistudio encapsulates memories and keeps them preserved and protected in a timeless, stylish, new and totally unique form of presentation. Totally new - totally different - Graphistudio again lead's the field with its brilliant innovations and now sets yet higher standards of design quality with a brand new form of display presentation. Simple yet stylish, this unique new way to display memories is yet another example of Graphistudio's ability to set a trend and forge ahead with great new ideas.

Hireacamera

Hireacamera is a family run business that has become one of the most popular suppliers in the UK of D-SLR cameras, lenses and accessories, with a comprehensive range of genuine UK sourced equipment from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Sigma and other major manufacturers. 

Hireacamera hires both video and photographic equipment for delivery Nationwide with the option of over 60 pick-up and drop-off points. A large stock of accessories is also available for hire including flashguns, tripods and lighting equipment. Hireacamera is also Sigma’s UK authorised hire partner and provides an extensive range of Sigma lenses in Nikon, Canon, Sony & Sigma mounts.  All bookings are insured in transit and delivered the day before the hire and collected the day after. In the event of short notice, same day delivery is available to London and the South East.  An insurance option is available to all customers, allowing you to hire without having to provide a deposit.

Just

CLEANING & PROTECTIVE PRODUCTS FOR CAMERAS AND ALL OPTICAL EQUIPMENT

Dust is the bane of every photographer’s life. Whether it is dust on the lens, dust on the sensor, the scanner or on transparencies and negatives. Dust can degrade optical equipment, ruin an image, add to retouching costs and damage valuable equipment. Whichever way you look at it, dust costs – period.

At Just we are dedicated to providing solutions to dust problems. We don’t promise to eliminate dust from your life, but we do strive to make it a manageable problem by providing cost effective solutions for a wide variety of imaging situations.

For digital SLR photographers we have safe, guaranteed products to help keep the imaging sensor clean. We also provide guidance, tutorials, product videos and telephone support to help you achieve success when cleaning the sensor.

With some companies charging up to £150 to clean the sensor in a digital SLR, it makes sound economic sense to manage this issue yourself.

We can show you how!

You may also find our frequently asked question page helpful.

Light Blue Software

Award-winning business management software for photographers
Designed for all types of photographers, from one-person businesses to studios with several staff, Light Blue is a flexible business management system that lets you keep on top of shoots, orders and contacts. It's bursting with clever things to help you to run a busy and successful business, and Light Blue also makes it easy to manage your image files, publish them on the web and profit from them.

Download a fully functioning copy today for a 30-day trial to see how Light Blue can help make running your photography business easy.

How can Light Blue help you?

Track enquiries, bookings and shoots: Know exactly what's happening when, and publish information to iCal or Google Calendar.

Be personal: Easily create mail-merge letters and emails to add that individual touch to your communications.

Handle your finances with ease: Add new orders, track payments, find outstanding debts, record expenditure and get an overview of your current position.

Publish your pictures online and profit from them: Effortlessly create attractive web galleries from sets of pictures, linked to PayPal's shopping cart.

Do it your way: Update your logos and templates yourself, with no extra fees.

Enjoy running your business: Light Blue is intutitive and pleasing to the eye, putting a little bit of joy back into the soulless world of admin.

Find out more about how Light Blue can help you.

Lovegrove Consulting

Business training with Damien Lovegrove
Damien Lovegrove is available for consultancy sessions to streamline your business, troubleshoot your marketing, sales, product design, finance and get you on the right track for success.

We are a small company with a big profile. A player on the world stage working from a converted farm in Somerset. Our enthusiastic verve is creatively driven. We love image making and always strive to exceed our own and our customers expectations. The foundation for our team sucess comes from a continuing education in imagemaking and business. We have never stopped learning and we have this wealth of knowledge and experience to pass on.

"It is no surprise that both fame and success at the very top of their industry have come so quickly to the Lovegroves. They are a winning combination with a recipe for sucess." Professional Photographer magazine

Loxley Colour

As a leading Pro-lab based in the UK, we pride ourselves in offering the very best in product quality and customer service. Our attention to detail and dedication is second to none allowing us to provide our customers with a complete professional experience.

We aim to provide our customers with a wide range of products including prints, albums, frames and stunning wall products to help increase sales and profitability. We strive to continually build on our existing range and create innovative new ideas to keep you one step ahead. Our exceptional turnaround time also ensures that our customers needs are fully met.

Our Roes and LDP software offers quick and efficient ordering solutions to perfectly compliment your existing workflow and our software support team are also available to assist with any queries you may have.

We welcome the opportunity to work with you and we are confident that you will also enjoy working with us. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information on how we can help build your business with you.

MPA

Established in 1952 and with over 2000 members, the Master Photographers Association is the United Kingdom's only organisation for full time, qualified and professional photographers.

The MPA offers members a variety of membership benefits, including education qualifications, informative regional meetings, national seminars, business building promotions and marketing support. 

NIK Software

Nik Software, Inc. is a privately-held American company that develops software solutions for the growing digital-imaging and photography markets. Established in 1995, Nik Software has become the recognized leader in digital photographic filter development and produces award-winning technology and plug-in products for digital photography and imaging professionals including U Point® technology, Dfine®, Viveza®, Silver Efex Pro™, Color Efex Pro™, and Nik Sharpener Pro™ software.

The company’s products use a range of innovative technologies that make digital imaging and photography easier and more powerful. Nik Software is headquartered in San Diego, California with branch offices in Germany

Photo Training 4U

Learn the day-to-day photography techniques of top portrait & wedding photographers as well as the author of ” Portrait Photography - The Secrets of Posing & Lighting” “Taking Great Family Portraits” ” Wedding Photography”, ” The Complete Guide to Lighting” and ” Photoshop in a Weekend”

PhotoTraining4U is the answer to all your photo-training needs in genuinely affordable, short photography videos that you can easily fit into daily coffee breaks.

To Instruct & Inspire you is our goal, your skill level doesn’t matter, you can be a keen amateur photographer or a seasoned Pro – you just choose the subject that fits what you want to learn today, whether to “Instruct” you in a technique or to “Inspire” you with ideas, there is a video in the knowledge bank to watch. 

Workshops can cost you thousands during a year but this meticulously planned photographer training website can instruct you or inspire you every day. Developed by Mark Cleghorn, one of the best known and most respected professional photographers, PhotoTraining4U will transform the way you work and the profits you make – and for less than the price of a coffee and a sandwich each week!

With over 800 films already on line and with at least three new films added every week, can you afford not to be a member of this life changing photographer training programme.

Photostorie

Photostorie are the leading suppliers of both Digital and Traditional wedding albums and Photo books.
All prospective customers are offered full size free sample albums which may be updated from time to time.

With over thirty five years in the Professional Photographic business we appreciate the challenges which face Photographers on a daily basis and are therefore better prepared to provide the answers you need.

Our quality is outstanding in all respects and to reinforce this we offer a lifetime guarantee on all our products. This quality assurance provides peace of mind to all our customers and yours..

Richard Frankfurt Photographic

Richard Frankfurt Photographic Ltd are one of the foremost suppliers of imaging equipment & supplies to the UK photographic industry, as well as a trusted supplier to various government departments and large multinational companies.

Although our company is the choice of many larger organisations, we offer a friendly and personal service and our main motivation is the satisfaction of all our customers and the building up of good business relationships.

The company was started in 1993 by Richard and has always been based in the Croydon area. Originally the business covered the South East of England but has since expanded to cover the rest of the UK.

Expertise:
Printers & Consumables, Photo Presentation Products, Digital Peripherals & Accessories, Camera Equipment, Film & Polaroid.

Risk Alliance Insurance Brokers

SHOW OFFER

Free Prize Draw: 12 months insurance policy worth up to £1000 at every Photovision Show in 2012.

We offer a range of packaged policies starting  from £99.00 ( for £2m Public Liability & £100k Professional Indemnity cover) to tailor-made policies covering  all aspects of the photographic industry.

Whether a full time professional, semi-professional or free-lance photographer, operating from a studio or working on location, we offer a policy that is flexible and  designed to meet the needs of today’s descerning photographer.

Our premiums are extremely competitive and our aim is to provide cost-effective insurance solutions for your business.

To discuss your requirements further, please contact the PHOTO-SHIELD team on 0845 180 6666, or email info@photoshield.co.uk

Sharif Photographic Services

Sharif Photographic Services is a long established UK dealer catering for all your photographic needs from a roll of film to full studio lighting set-up and much more. Large range of consumables along with new and used/ex-demo equipment online at www.sharifphotographic.co.uk or contact Sharif on 01461 206 578 for pricing and information.

Traditional or digital, professional or student/enthusiast,
online shopper or looking for a personal service Sharif Photographic Services
is available for everyone.

To see some of his current items on offer please check out the website or for further prices and information:

t: 01461 206 578 / 07887 837070
e: info@sharifphotographic.co.uk

w:  www.sharifphotographic.co.uk

Come to Photovision to see all the Special Show Offers!

Sim2000

Sim 2000 Imaging offers professional photographers a one-stop shop for all their printing and binding needs. We will produce high quality digital albums and parent books, portrait books, coffee table books and proof books, as well as a full range of marketing materials so that you can promote your business in the best possible way. We are delighted to also introduce a new range of wall hanging solutions, which include box frames, block mounts and layered acrylics, with more types of frames to be introduced shortly. You can design any of our products using our free 'SimWare' software, easily downloadable from our website. All our products are handmade in our factory at Elstree, ensuring you receive the highest quality products at the most competitive prices, with the best possible customer service. 

SmugMug Pro

SmugMug Pro shares your passion for photography. Whether you shoot BMX or brides, you get a complete ecommerce solution for your business. Simplify your life with unlimited uploads, a fully customizable website, guaranteed fulfillment and easy marketing tools.  Heroic support, pro labs and hundreds of print options -- we have it all. Impress, market and sell with SmugMug Pro for just $20/month or $150/year.

SWPP

When there is such a choice of representative membership organisations, forums, web listings and advice out there it is easy to get caught and misdirected with your hard earned cash. Built on 20 year’s of experience and with a combined membership of over 6500 worldwide members one organisation offers a complete package that will give you the return for a very reasonable investment. Best known as the SWPP & BPPA (The Society of Wedding and Portrait photographers and British professional Photographs Assoc) the world’s largest independent organisation has launched five new additional partner ‘Societies’ representing Sports, Travel, Wildlife, Press and Commercial photographers.

If you enjoy entering image competitions, debating on a Forum, attending seminars, getting referrals, saving on insurance, gaining distinctions, having feedback on your work and much more – then the ‘Societies’ are here to help you.

The Image File

Theimagefile is a constantly updated web strategy for the photographer. Take a trial account and build a great business grabbing website and be selling your images worldwide in three currencies two hours later. Or quickly update your web site by adding some of our fabulous pages like the flipping album, contract page, or special contact page.

Uploading your images is easy and selecting your sales, options from the collections is super simple. Have your customer orders go directly to your choice of partner lab, they will send back to your customer under your branding, saving double postage and your time.

Slideshows, your watermarking and re-sizing is all done for you. All this with fast and friendly telephone support.

If you are looking for a way to improve your web site, get more business or just sell more this summer take a trial with theimagefile and relax knowing it is all sorted. Even better, just use the Promo code summer11 before the end of June for an additional month for just £1.00.

Telephone enquiries welcome – 0845 118 0030

Towergate Camerasure

Insurance to protect photographers’ tools of trade. We can offer specialist cover for the photographic industry including laboratories and picture libraries, as well as professional photographers.

• Photographic laboratories insurance
• Picture libraries insurance
• Professional Indemnity insurance
• Professional photographers insurance

Trade Canvas Prints

TradeCanvasPrints.com are the canvas supplier of choice for professional photographers. Our canvas prints are hand-crafted using only the finest quality materials, guaranteeing first-class results at unbeatable prices. We use 420gsm 100% cotton quality canvas material, sealed with a triple application of either matt, silk or gloss varnish to resist ink fade and protect from scuffs and moisture. Our canvases are hand stretched over chunky 35mm pine frames, and finished neatly with framer tape, protective felt coins and pre-fitted hangers, and finally boxed securely in white premium reusable boxes. In fact, we are so confident you will love our craftsmanship, we will print you a FREE, no obligation canvas. With a dedicated account manager and design team, guaranteed 72 hour turnaround, 15% Show discount and FREE delivery, why work with anyone else?

Visit our website today or contact us on 0800 630 0880 to find out how to arrange your free sample and to receive 15% discount off your first order.

Wex Photographic