I reluctantly post this just like I have reluctantly accepted a paid/semi job. Anyway my photography has always been for myself I have lots of prints hanging around my house (up to 16x20). I and my wife haved received lots of requests for me to shoot portraiture for people around time, but I have always turned them down least I get the privilege of being branded a fauxtagrapher. Anyway I have decided to accept some requests and give it a go.
I live in a town of about 45,000 on the Texas border, the closest major town is San Antonio and that is 2.5 hours away. This means people don’t have a lot of options, and what I have seen around town from the pros is less than desirable and I know I can offer better quality. I was at a wedding recently and the photographer was using a D90 with kit lens, 55-200 and the pop up flash. Now I know equipment does not make the photographer, but believe me the pictures showed he was not properly set up.
My equipment
Pentax K-5
Pentax 16-45 f4
Sigma 24-70 2.8 hsm
Sigma 70-200 2.8 EX macro II
3 Flashes – 1 sigma 610 and two Pentax 340’s
Now that you have a little (Lot?) of background, i have couple questions.
1. Can you point me in a direction of an online resource or book for portraiture photography?
2. I do not want to spend much money on additional lightning, but was looking at
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Fancierstudio-1000watt-Lighting-Kit-background/dp/B003TYA7TI[/url]
Is this a complete waste of money? Remember I may never use the kit again except for my kids.
3. I am thinking of not charging anything, just setting up a smugmug/zenfolio account and selling the prints through there. Is this acceptable for a non-pro?
Thanks for any info and advice you might be able to offer. Here are a couple photos just so you can see what I am talking about, Not good but not bad and lots of areas for improvement.
Oct 08, 2011 at 11:38 AM
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