This morning I was watching a video on YouTube where an established photographer/YouTuber was answering a question he received via email from a "semi-professional" photographer. The photographer basically said that they would like to get into wedding photography and asked the YouTuber what type of equipment they should get. The YouTuber then answered the question.
Had I been asked the question, I would have answered with: "I hope you aren't charging to shoot weddings if you don't even know what type of equipment you need to shoot one..."
Not only charging to shoot, but shooting weddings as the primary photog at all. Weddings aren't something that happen every day for people, which makes the photos taken extremely important. If you don't know what type of equipment you need to do a certain shoot, then I can't help but assume you have no idea about your equipment or the equipment available to you. Any real professional (someone who takes good photos and gets paid for it, not someone who has a fancy camera and thinks they're a photographer) will know their equipment inside and out, how to use it, and its limitations, as well as be able to determine what equipment they need for a specific type of shoot. If you have to go around asking other people what type of equipment you need, then you're obviously not ready to be paid to shoot.
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