Unfortunately our incredible video team has moved on to another focus and has therefore decided to stop advertising their service with us; however, I am still referring work to them and it may be accepted based on availability. I also have one other company in Adelaide I happy to refer people to.

Always, always, always RAW.

CPL are cool for some stuff for cutting through secularity. B+W UV simply for protection, can cause some flare issues shooting into the sun. Don't buy expensive lenses and cheap filters... Think about it.

Haven't used the Sigma or Tamron but given the performance of other lenses, stick to the Canon. Both of the 100mm have awesome near identical awesome image quality and at about $600/$900 they are great value I think.

I have a Canon 40D I wouldn't mind getting rid of...

Battery grip and 2 batteries. Great condition.

An active Facebook page. No doubt about it. I also have had leads by sending submissions to blogs and magazines. In my opinion, don't use traditional advertising.

The problem with those sites is the only people generally looking at them are generally other photographers. They could be good for sharing and creating online portfolios to link to potential clients.

Go and ask some wedding photographers if you can tag along on a wedding. Even if you just end up carrying bags, you would learn a heap. It's pretty high pressure and you can't be still working out how to use your camera, make sure you know your camera and exposures etc. Shooting families would be a good start at learning how to photograph people.

To be honest I struggle with it too! If you want to shoot landscapes, go find some! If you want to shoot people, go find some!

I follow quite a few wedding photographers work but I try not to get my inspiration from there. I like fashion photography so I check out a bit of that.

There are plenty of landscapes not too far from anyones home really. Go for a Saturday morning drive :)

Look at my photos then look at the f-stops of those lenses. You now know why I like primes.

With the older film cameras zooms were TERRIBLE for image quality in terms of contrast and sharpness. The modern top end zoom lenses are generally as good or better than some of the primes.

The 2 zooms that are there would account for maybe 4-5 shots on our website.

Don't let my wife see this list... (it's ok cos it's all business owned!)

2x Canon 5D mkIIs
16-35mm f/2.8L
35mm f/1.4L
50mm f/1.2L
85mm f/1.2L
100mm f/2.8L IS macro
135mm f/2L
70-200mm f/4L IS

Canon EOS 5 (takes the lenses above)
Canon AE-1 Program with 50mm f/1.8

Mamiya RZ67 Pro II with 110mm f/2.8

Wow, loaded question!

How's this for an answer? Choose the right medium for what you want to shoot!

I don't really feel qualified yet to talk too much about film as I am still very much learning! I must say though, I will be shooting a fair bit of film this year and I'm sure you will hear more about my learning process!

Plans are to do a couple of different courses around the middle of the year. Stay tuned :)

1. Not if at all possible.
2. Only ever once used extension tubes and was pretty unimpressed. I would rather use the 100mm as it comes, I have no need for any more than 1:1.

That's a tough one. It depends a lot on what you want to shoot and how you like to shoot.

For me for weddings/portraits:
50mm
135mm
and either 35 or 85mm depending on how much room I had to back up!

(I would probably miss a 100mm macro in that!)

If you don't mind zooms:
24-70mm
70-200mm
85mm

If you like landscapes you would want something wider probably like a 16-35mm or a 14mm ($$)

The first time I ever held a DSLR I was trying to take photos of butterflies with dave's 40D and 70-200!

After doing a fair bit of shooting together, Dave and I second shot for a few people before doing our first weddings together a few years ago. It took a fair while to find a voice, but I think we're getting there now :)

Haha, nope!

I can only talk about Canon gear that I use at the moment but it all roughly translates to Nikon or whatever. I use mostly fast primes, so bokeh quality is generally quite high and important to my style from all the primes mentioned: Anyway, here goes a long answer:

16-35mm f/2.8L - Not used much. Great for big wide landscape shots for bride + groom in vineyard for example. Also for whole group shots although does have significant distortion on frame edges.
35mm f/1.4L - New favourite wide lens, replaced 16-35mm for a fair bit of stuff. I call it a story teller lens because it includes a lot of context for the subjects. Colour and contrast are exceptional!
50mm f/1.2L - Probably my most used lens. Is quite similar to a natural field of view (kind of how our eyes see) and so doesn't distort faces etc until you get quite close. F/1.2 is magic...
85mm f/1.2L - Not the sharpest lens but 85mm@f1.2 is UN - BE - LIEVABLE. I love this lens but good luck keeping the eyes of a bride and groom sharp at f1.2!!
100mm f/2.8L IS Macro - Awesome detail lens, particularly for jewellery including the rings. A VERY sharp lens. Also great for close details (lips/eyes etc).
135mm f/2L - Possibly a new favourite. The sharpest lens mentioned here. Colour and contrast are as good as the 35mm. Step back and give yourself some distance from the subjects and let them forget you're even there!

I won't post a specific one because that's too hard to choose; however, this is what I look for in a photo: Light, expression, composition.

I take inspiration from and love (not all, but most) fashion photography. So I love direction and posing from fashion.

I like post processing that is not over-cooked. Not to say high level processing and effects are wrong, just not my preference :)

...and of course this is all relative to people photography, because that's what I love!

I have used both systems. The 7D is a great camera that I made some really nice images with. Once I saw the first images with 5D, for what and how I want to shoot, I will never go back. Here are a few reasons:

Bigger, brighter viewfinder.

Bigger pixels generally means less noise and better dynamic range.

For the same field of view, a FF camera will have less DOF (which I like).

A 10mm lens on an APS-C camera is likely to have more distortion than a 16mm lens on a FF camera (in my experience and not such an issue if you use lens correction and don't mind the loss in pixels that can come with that).

The 16-35mm is a much nicer lens than the 10-22mm EF-S as a Canon example.

I could keep blah blah-ing but at the end of the day, you can make great images with both size sensors. Go rent a 5D or a D700/D3S and a nice lens that suits what you want to shoot and try for yourself! Be warned though, as a lot of people say: "Once you go full frame, you'll never go back".

I can't wait to see the difference my new RZ67 has over 35mm film too! (36x24mm frame compared to 67x56mm frame!!)

Nope, have to admit I'm a bit of an Apple fanboy!