No, it doesn't beg the question. It raises the question. Begging the question is a logical fallacy in which the premise presupposes the conclusion, resulting in circular reasoning. For example, "God created the Earth because the Bible says so", that is an example of begging the question.
Hi Cassie {again!} I applaud you for wanting to take up photography for a living. Persue your dreams while you are young I say. Could you tell us how the wedding shoots went? I believe they are one of if not the most demanding disciplines in photography. Do you have any pics that you could show us, to get a feel of your style? As far as equipment goes, & I am only a beginner myself, I feel it would be difficult to do paid work on a shoestring. If this is your ambittion, then you owe it to your future clients & yourself to use the best tools for the job. I made a living doing joinery {carpentry} & buying the best quallity tools was a must. As I mentioned in your thread in Open Talk, considder better equipment used. But even the best tools need to be used correctly & with both carpentry & photography, it takes time to gain the experience to do paid work to an acceptable standard. By all means buy your equipment, but take your time learning. Dont be intoo much of a rush to go self employed, believe me, wherever you live, its a difficult way to make a living especially in the current financial climate. Forgive me if I sound a bit negative, but these are the hard facts. lee uk
You said you were doing weddings, senior portraits, and freelance work. It just made it sound like you were selling a service.
All four are good enough to get started with. The D3000 is the oldest, with the most limitations; it's the only one that cannot shoot video, and does not have Live View either. It's been discontinued awhile, so unless you have a local store selling one with a kit lens very cheap, it's not worth buying. Same story with the D5000; it has been out of production awhile, so unless you find it somewhere much cheaper than the D5100, it's not worth buying.
The two statements are to some extent mutually exclusive. You must understand something about the way the hardware works in order to understand how to get the best from it. The details are very important. The more you understand the more you can achieve.
In this forum, we have a few guys who take "pro" income work idea very seriously in terms of delivering professional, consistent quality. They get very upset and irritated when someone who's just starting says they are already charging for work when they don't know the difference between a 3100 and a 90.
There are haves and have nots - I am a have not. Have not a lot of money.
Please don't say that. If you know how to work a camera, you would clearly know the difference between a D3000 and a D5100. I don't have any Nikons (except a point and shoot one from year 2000) and even I know the difference.
