A few years ago, our small and short-lived photography group held our first and only photoshoot with a model. A member who knows a professional photographer had arranged for this event for a small fee. It consisted of two parts - an outside photoshoot and an introduction to software editing.
The outside photoshoot was held in Bretton Park. During the photoshoot we were taught about poses and how to direct a model during a photoshoot. The model our trainer brought along was very professional and very patient with us. In the second part, which was held in a member's house we were taught on portrait editing using a leading software. I did not stay long although I wrote some notes as I was intent on doing it using GIMP software.
And for this blogpost, I decided to do very minimal editing on Snapseed e.g. crop and auto image tuning only and then lower the resolution on Pixlr for this blogpost. I wanted to showcase the colours you can get from the legacy Minolta lens I used on all portraits during this photoshoot.
We had great fun in this photoshoot but portrait photography is not one of my interests. However, the lessons learned from that activity proved helpful to me during parties where I took photos of friends and family.
All photos were taken with a micro four thirds camera (two earliest versions of https://amzn.to/2kSIQc4) attached with a legacy Minolta manual portrait lens (for most shots) and a few shots from a standard kit lens (earliest version of https://amzn.to/2nyhf0M).
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