Cheers Tim, the guy with the flower was really cool pulling lots of poses. Some made it easy some I had to push a little, but worth it. Certainly made me more confident to ask people to photo again..

Been shooting Alchemy Festival in Lincolnshire this weekend. Wanted to do something totally out of my comfort zone so decided to shoot 35 portraits of strangers using the DA 35mm f/2.4 on the K-5.

Found it really difficult to approach people at first but after doing 5 or 6 it became a little easier. I didn't get a knock back until about the 28th portrait & this was the only knock back of the day. Maybe it was the festival setting that made the hit rate more successful. But either way I enjoyed doing it, took about 2 hours between gaps in the bands all in. I even had a couple of people ask me to take their photo.

Here are a few of my favourites the whole set in order taken can be seen here, I think they get better as I go on...

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Surely best bokeh lens is the 50-135mm???

Amazon price match a lot of marketplace seller prices. I have often wondered what happen if you listed a brand new k-5 for £499.99 & see if they would price match it...

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This lens has a great 3d effect for portraits.. Great set..

Cool ))

Its not the weekend warriors charging free or £50 that's the problem. I have seen WW's around my way shooting for £1750 for just a disc full of out of camera images shot on a D40 with kit lens. The images haven't even been selected through for out of focus etc... just literally copied the card contents onto a cd...

These people leave a trail of disappointment & total trust in the photography industry.

At least this person is being up front, if you pay £50 for a wedding photographer, then the expectation is going to be low & as others have said is not really going to be a client to the full time wedding pro..

Ah did wonder...

Number 10 is excellent