My advice: Don’t let other other people, especially other photographers, determine how you spend your money. Having too much money tied up in cameras, lenses and lights or worse, debt for all that gear will sink a new portrait photographer faster than anything else.

For too long I considered considered the 3:2 rectangle as sacred and I will admit that it’s still my default shooting crop with my mirrorless cameras, not the 4:3 that is standard. I’m gradually getting over that kind of thinking too. But sometimes this idea can be carried to extremes, I think, as evidenced by the SOOC movement, not as Seinfeld once said, not that there’s anything wrong with it.”