You want to do professional-level work and you have to ask "what settings?"

If you were ready to do this kind of work you would not have to ask that question.

OK, here is the secret setting....it all depends.

Well, you need to get the flash off the camera, and a way to trigger it, you need reflectors and someone to hold them, you need a few million in liability insurance, a business/tax license. If you expect to get paid for this you should have two cameras. You need to have at LEAST Lightroom and Photoshop Elements and Photoshop is better. You need - probably already have - a computer to handle the retouching.

And you need to know enough about photography that you don't ask, "What settings?"

Hi billozz: I have the 70-200 2.8 usm L series glass and the 1.4 teleconverter and find I use them much less that I thought I would. I find I use my 24mm 2.8 wide angle and my 100mm 2.8 usm macro far more often. You can even throw in the 50mm nifty fifty gets more use than the L glass does. I have found on my 5D MkII I just don't get the reach I expected I would. Let me also direct you to this site on Canon lenses, it is my go to site on just about every Canon lens made. It's written for the biginner photographer and is easy to follow and understand. The site covers lens usage and quality. Hope this helps. http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/lenses.html

Mine is when people complain about how people use terms that have been accepted and have been used for numerous years. Those that picked up photography in the digital era use the term bokeh, it's not going away. Join any other serious photography form and you will find it used without question. Make a statement referring to the use of the word as being lazy and refusing to learn proper language would start a nasty reply about being old and refusing to change with the times.


The use of glass has been used even long, I have heard many, many older photographers refer to their lenses as their glass. Actually the gentleman who leads one of photography club calls his lenses "glass", he is in his late70s.

Mine is when people complain about how people use terms that have been accepted and have been used for numerous years. Those that picked up photography in the digital era use the term bokeh, it's not going away. Join any other serious photography form and you will find it used without question. Make a statement referring to the use of the word as being lazy and refusing to learn proper language would start a nasty reply about being old and refusing to change with the times.


The use of glass has been used even long, I have heard many, many older photographers refer to their lenses as their glass. Actually the gentleman who leads one of photography club calls his lenses "glass", he is in his late70s.