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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gohan2091" data-source="post: 255236" data-attributes="member: 11990">Thanks all, I have read everyones comments and to avoid having this post becoming a novel, I have selected a few to reply to below. Thanks everyone so much and thanks @<a href="http://nikonites.com/member.php?u=645" target="_blank">mike</a>_d90 for the contract link!This is what I do, I look at local photographers who are  non-professionals and I charge below what they offer. Everyone else on  here are suggesting I charge triple or quadruple what I usually charge.  If I do that, I would be for sure one of the most expensive, if not the  most expensive photographer on the free-ad website and I wouldn't class  myself as a professional. I mostly use manual but for some candids in the outdoors, the only way for me is Aperture Priority. I don't have time to manually set exposure when so many things are going on around me. I'd rather slightly under or over exposure a shot and capture it, then miss it because I'm changing exposure and chimping the histogram. Shallow DOF is an issue for me because for the majority of the weddings, I use my 16-85mm which is slow. Also my cameras are DX so it can't blur out the background as well as a full frame can. When a new FX camera is released that's affordable, I will buy it and buy faster glass. I almost got the D610 but in some respects, it's a downgrade from my D7100. I found a Jerry Ghionis video on Youtube about Posing, I shall watch it for sure. Thanks!I think charging as a package makes sense, I  will up my prices but I am not comfortable charging even a minimum of $1500 for a wedding. I've done 5 Weddings and none have been anywhere near 12 hours. Where do you get that average wedding estimate from? Or are you including editing time with this? 4 out of the 5 weddings have only lasted approximately 2-3 hours each, one was 8 hours but one was just an hour and a half. Do you think my photos are good enough to charge $1500 for a Wedding? Please view the free-ad page I advertise on:<a href="http://www.gumtree.com/search?q=photographer&category=all&search_location=Norwich&distance=10.0&current-distance=0.0" target="_blank">photographer in Norwich | Gumtree</a>Look at the prices there. If I could select a few as an example:Photographer 1) £375 8-Hour Wedding Photographer, CD, Copyright Permission Granted ($622) - The phtos are amazing but nicePhotographer 2) I am willing to shoot yours for just £250 ($415) for the  entire day. This offer will only be open to the first few individuals as  I am fairly experienced as a second shooter and just want to increase  my portfolio as the main photographer. All couples will get a Disc  containing approx 100-150 High Resolution images from the special day  which are all individually edited using professional software and  techniques.  Yes, there are a couple on there charging a bit more but the majority are so cheap. I'm really going to have to think carefully about this but the days of doing Weddings for £100 - £150 are over.I am the primary shooter at everything, in fact, I have never been a second shooter, not even before I did my first wedding. I jumped in and tried to prepare as much as I can. I do formal posed shots but I like the majority to be candid. The example picture you shown is of my first Wedding. I think the bride was a bit camera shy. I know I have lots of her looking at the camera, perhaps my portfolio selection was poor. I'll sort through my portfolio photos sometime and try to replace a few.</blockquote>

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