The best way to be in the photo is to get someone else to do this for you...but if you need to do it yourself you will need a tripod and to use the delayed action of a remote control.

If the terrain allowed, I could see the potential for wedging the camera in trees and rock formations without the tripod, to make more interesting angles and compositions.

As regards the light, slow ISO and fill in flash seems the obvious choice, so a book on Wedding Photography will probably help! Practice this technique and you'll have that part of it sorted with no problem.

Can you pre-visit to scout out the location and make notes? If so, I would definitely do that.

She's gone.

I was thinking about some of the odd and contradictory things that I've seen photographers do, so here's one to start off a thread on the subject.

Taking a lens hood everywhere, but leaving it reversed on the lens when taking puctures. This rendering possessing it as totally pointless.

Any others spring to mind?

I agree with you, but I was talking in a generalised sense, not in a specialised one. Of course once the site is destroyed it is destroyed and later when new methods of investigation are available to you there will be no going back. So I think the basic idea is flawed, but driven my monetary considerations.

However, the advice on Kodachrome and archivally processed black and white is sound. It is actually very difficult to process archivally and needs to be done with the itmost care and attention to detail.

If you put this in the Classified Ads section of the forum it will get noticed much more quickly.

Nothing lasts for ever, but these days we worry about it more.

I don't remember any anxious discussions about archival permanence back in the days of film.

This is very useful information, but not useful in a Classified Ad...

How about starting it again in a new topic so we don't spoil this sale. It's worth getting the information in the right place so people can take advantage of it.

Please use Lenses or General and when it's under way I'll delete out these diversionary posts.

I'm receiving them OK, but depending on the ISP you use, sometimes there are transmission delays. A couple of days ago I had lots of notifications from various sites taking several hours to arrive.

It has actually been fixed, but the comments that were already there have to removed one by one.....

What was really interesting last night was who was online at 3.30am.

Your secrets are safe with me, but I was surprised with some of the fellow Pentax Users who were floating around in the wee hours....