How about at a more formal, yet non-jovial event such as a wedding? I.e. fund raisers, black tie dinners, university reunions, etc.

I do still have the mac - brilliant idea re export! I think I'll do that this weekend!

Alright, I know you've either all been here, or are currently here now. My digital image library is getting horrendously big. I'm not even sure how many photo's I have, but it's probably 50k+. So there has now come a point where I'm asking myself two things:

FIRST: I just changed back from a MAC to a PC - this means that all the work I did in iPhoto for my personal photo's has been lost. This pisses me off to no end. Do you folks make permanent changes to your photos?

SECOND: What do you do with that many photo's? I'm thinking of a huge purge - looking at each one for a few seconds and deleting anything that doesn't grab me right away. Maybe not for travelling photo's, but really how many shots of flowers / my cat do I need? How do you all decide what to keep with storage is so cheap? I'm also pondering printing and then deleting the lot as I don't picture ever wanting to blow up more than a handful of shots.

Hooray for my country of birth lasting one more year!

Lets keep the suggestions coming! I don't mind hearing anything even if it's a bit crazy.

Doing my first pseudo paid event this weekend (I'm being paid in food and alcohol, but it would have cost me 30quid to go to this charity event otherwise). In the past to make fun pictures I've made them groups something funny, get people to jump, do a funny pose / flex, or things like everyone point at one person.

What do you guys do to make people look good in photos? There's something in me that hates the fake smile with people just lined up. That's not to say I don't take those types as well - esp for older folks - but I'm looking for some inspiration here. I've also never done anything in a formal setting.

Shhhhhh! I'm not looking for competition for my search

So no one has any historic pricing information on the 70-200mm f2.8 Tammy / Siggy or the Siggy 100-300mm F4 I take it?

Whoops, yup, long end not wide end. My bad!

And to get that decent shutter speed, I need fast glass Hence my mental debate. Boo hiss. If I had the cash I'd keep my 50-135mm and get a 100-300mm, but I just can't rationalize that kind of expenditure for a hobby that yields no return.