{"id":10259,"date":"2018-08-05T14:15:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:11:59","slug":"2018-portrait-workshop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/2018-portrait-workshop-2","title":{"rendered":"2018 Portrait Workshop 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our second portrait workshop the summer was with\u00a0Nicola Papperazzo,\u00a0Chloe Mason and Andy Blue McLaren. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We split it into a couple of locations on the west end of Leeds city centre. Starting in the flowery Park Square, where I showed people how to use flowers in the foreground to add blurry texture – like this one of Nicola<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sun light was low and warm, so we also made use of that with shots like this one of Chloe, where she’s looking straight towards the sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sun soon left the square, so we moved on to a spot with some fantastic graffiti – a building which used to be the police station many moons ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s one of Chloe, I’ve used a technique of shooting along the building, focussing on the model, so the foreground blurs as does the background<\/a>. There’s a little texture added to this in post processing too, just to add to that urban feel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s one of the front of the building with Nicola – showing how you can use the environment as the main feature and the model only forming a small part of the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next we moved to the footbridige over the A58M, Leeds inner ring road. Its not the prettiest of things so not immediately obvious a location for a shoot, but I’ve always liked its long lines, hard concrete and hand rails. It lends itself to portraits – here’s one of Andy, framed in the concrete and steel of the structure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s Chloe on the bridge itself<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the end of the evening, once the light had dwindled, I captured a few shots of Chloe using just street light – you need street lights to focus for starters, plus once it’s dark, it lifts the model out of the background<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Then to finish the evening off, I did a flash demonstration – this used 4 speedlite flashes – compact and cheap to buy, but really effective.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    These next two of Nicola used just 1 softbox, quite high up to the right of her, so you get the shadow on the right of her face. Nearly Rembrandt Lighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    We then stopped Andy from leaving by putting him in the spotlight, which he loves! Here we have the same softbox, and 2 rear lights giving them a glowing “rim” light.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    And then we got all 3 together for a final few – this is my favourite of the 3 of them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Though to get this shot, we had a laugh first….\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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