There are guidelines, it's not a free-for-all. When noticed in time, any off-topic comments are routinely removed and certainly comments like "that's far too expensive, you can get one from here at £100 less" are taken off as soon as possible.

The Classified section is for the buying/selling process only. However, sometimes off topic comments that are helpful are left alone.

It's all a matter of common sense.

If you save a search on eBay then every time items that match are posted you get an e-mail telling you.

That's how I watch out for rare items - it saves constantly looking.

If you start to do that, your going rate will stay zero. And something that costs nothing has no value.

So be careful! If you are good enough to shoot a wedding, for example, you are good enough to charge properly for it. If you are not good enough to do a wedding, then don't do it till you are.

So where do you get the skills? Practice, practice, practice the individual bits first. Go into a church, take low light shots maybe with a couple of friends to pose. Practice the group shots with fewer people. Practice fill-in flash outdoors.....take lots of picturesw until the camera part is second nature.

Then you onloy have the people to deal with.

It's perfectly possible to shoot a wedding with an f4 lens Mike, but depending on the situation the techniques used may vary accordingly.

Whatever you use for a wedding complete confidence with equipment and people is the order of the day.

A few posts removed as this thread is a Classified Ad.

By all means discuss the matters raised, but in General Chat please.

You could shoot a wedding with one lens ata pinch, but it's always nice to have options.

The most important aspects of weddings are crowd control, people skills and getting the shots done with a minimum of fuss. No excuses for getting it wrong. I use the 16-45mm, but could happily use a number of alternatives if I had them. (16-50mm, 17-70mm, 18-55mm, 18-135mm, 18-250mm.....)

A 50mm is useful for low light portraits.

You always shoot in colour.

Making an image black and white can be done in several ways, usually in Photoshop or a similar editing program.

The Pentax cameras will allow you to select an image you have already taken and apply effects, including a black and white option. The modified file is saved as a new file, keeping the original intact.

Very interesting, it shows yet again how much can be achieved with square format.

Different and effective. The background has been selected well and very carefully presented. The only thing I'm not happy about is the table. It's light and distracting and I'm not sure its positioning is optimum.

In an ideal world I would ditch the table and if at all possible include a black cat in that space. That could be quite surreal.

I'm not an expert on Pentax flash, but I think you'll find that your flash is a TTL type and you ideally want a P-TTL.

However, all is not lost as you can still use the flash in standard Auto mode and Manual.

I'm sure there will be others along in due course with more detail!