{"id":12827,"date":"2022-08-23T09:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T09:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12827"},"modified":"2023-07-02T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T14:16:40","slug":"portraits-beginners-workshop-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/portraits-beginners-workshop-2022\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Portraits Beginners Workshop 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Absolute Beginners Workshop<\/h1>\n

After a 3-year break it was fantastic to get back to to be showing people her to do location portrait photography. We had our friends Andi, Andy and Michele, and a new model called Rachel, to play with around the exchange area of Leeds. <\/p>\n

The main focus of the workshop was settings and how to make the most of a background – so we had a couple of exercises to start with, including the “filling the frame at every lens length you have” test – starting in my case at 16 mm and working my way back to 200 mm. This is a great thing to do in any photography genre because it shows you how the subject changes with focal length as well as how the background<\/a> changes in relation to the model.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the photos<\/p>\n

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Rachel – long lens, wide aperture, gives a blurry background<\/p>\n

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Michele – shooting with the sun behind her, gives a golden glow to her hair<\/p>\n

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Andi, light behind him again<\/p>\n

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Michele – I moved the other side of her so the sun was lighting her, just to illustrate the difference<\/p>\n

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Andy – showing how to make silhouettes when there’s a great sky behind the model<\/p>\n

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Andi – finding textures in the background – here a black door<\/p>\n

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Rachel – Adding a splash of colour<\/p>\n

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