So you're an aspiring professional photographer?

Serious advice with one drawback. Questioners hardly search for previous questions. You would be better off saving this lecture somewhere else then pasting it as your answer to the next applicable question.

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Wait, I want to do a wedding and portrature buziness, but I don't want to use any of those flash things. Their so confusing.

Whats a portfolio?

My parents bot me a 5dmkii - it dint come with a lens so we bought one off a guy on craigslist. It doesnt work right - when i look into the camera the sides of the piture are flat but the top and bottom are round. He said that's the newest thing in wedding fotos. Hes a wedding fotogrfer too, he advertisses their so I will to. Im gonna charge 50 for the whole day and give a cd to the customers. Is this to much?

@Edwin: Dude, lighten up. Your question (is there a question in there?) came across as a bit caustic - we were just playing along (or so we thought!)

It is unwise and frustrating to take these kids too seriously. Do you remember being a teenager? Every 5 minutes I wanted to do something else - this is a time of huge discovery for people as they change from being a child to being an adult - and they have to poke everything. What is tiresome is that they are brainwashed into thinking this has to be a business - when they are in no way ready to do more than run a lemonade stand or work at Mickey D's. I think the parents are responsible for that, pushing their kids to be "over"achievers while not allowing them to explore, make mistakes, fall on their butts. So they buy them $2500 cameras and tell them to go out and build a photo business. In many ways the kids are just doing the best they can. If you were trying to inform them, then good on you, but your comments sound very didactic - it reads as a lecture, not a question, and a sarcastic one at that. So sorry. I didn't take it seriously.

The links to Rangefinder are great though.

No, I'm already a professional photographer, thanks.

Oh, and by the way -- all of those things (and then some) are or can be your "portfolio." You seem to have a very limited, old-school idea of "portfolio." News flash: it's not the 1960's. Taking advantage of what technology and the web have to offer is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Peace.

Wait, what about my Instagram photos? My friends have told me they look really good!

I want to start a photography business, what camera should I buy?

Should I buy a D4 or a 1DX?

I just bought a 5D MKII, what lenses should I buy?

HAHA

The only question I see above is;

you're an aspiring professional photographer?

So Answer is none of your business...

Is this a conceded lecture or just a really stupid one? I can't decide either of the two.

"I'm going to let this go to voting because so far there isn't a worthy answer in my opinion."

Post a "worthy" question then !!

Did you have a question? Or do you just like to preach to people?