Only if you have a right big flash.

It's to do with the number of posts on this forum, don't worry.

I run my lenses starkers, to date without drama, I only use a filter if it adds to the image in some way.

Welcome to the forum

They approached you, right, what do they want the photos for?, presuably to promote themselves.

If this is what they do in public, your freezing the action changes nothing that the rest of the public will be doing with their cameras, mobile phones and the like.

I fear there maybe issues here with the group leaders, as others have said already, a polite decline and walk away.

Welcome aboard, enjoy both the forum and your photography.

Try this

http://www.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/showproduct.php?product=204&cat=44

Welcome aboard, enjoy the furm and your photography

Get me along to hold stuff

I sincerely hope that we do see AmandaW and or any other new forum members that have read this thread, come back here to this forum, should she or they require any further assistance.

It's a real shame that with the amount detailed and in depth knowledge of photography, which is so freely available here by the extensive membership.

To see the thread get so disappointingly get wrapped "round the axle", for whatever reason, to the extent the original post is nearly totally lost, IMHO is unacceptable.

We are all entitled to an opinion, thats what makes this one of the best forums out there, so lets all treat each other with a little more respect and get down to the photography and the gathering of truely stunning images.