Probably your 16 and 50. The 16 will give you a really nice wide shot, and the 50 is nice for portraits. If you can, a 200 or 300 zoom is what i use for candids.

I saw a very well-known actor give a panel. He said always get paid. Even if it’s minimal. I would agree. Just for self-respect, negotiate a payment. Then, you can justify writing off business expenses. If you’re not paid, you have no business, therefore cannot write anything off.

Depends on the gear. Having a lens with a better fstop means you can bum up the shutterspeed. Moving to on with more around f2 cpuld help. The max shutter speend of the camera alnd malx ISO work in to that to. I just watched a video on youtube sort of about this by simon d’Entremont. He breaks it down to almost an elementary level but is still useful.

Happy shooting