Portrait Model Shoot | Ria Delos Santos
The Portrait Seminar with Sykes Photo Club
It
was a bittersweet event for me but I had no regret at all. I was
supposed to take part in an Outreach Climb at Bokod Benguet with Sykes
Outdoor, but I can't join since I didn't get the desired work leave
during the departure time. Taking the alternative for an invitation to a
Photography Seminar "The Portrait" by Sykes Photo Club was a good
respite for my downcast spirit on this uneventful weekend. The Sykes
Photo Club had shape the way I take photographs, starting from scratch,
that after attending a Basic Photography Workshop with them, my blogs
photos took a great change and I was able to develop my own brand of
photography.
Content with outdoor photography, I was always afraid to take portraits
of people, taking a brave spin towards Lifestyle Photography where you
shoot on events is even more scary for me. So it was about time I learn
the basics, differentiating the editorial, lifestyle and environment
portraits. Understanding the sort of light that would work for subject;
male or female, taking advantage of the long and short lights, the key
lights and the background lights, kicker lights, fill lights that attributes to a
great portrait.
There were a lot of things I had to undo while I sat in the board room of
Sykes for a few hours. A lot of misconceptions had been answered like
processing the photos. One thing is for sure, we were taught to take a
good shot, and make our photos as realistic as we can, without much
photo editing involved we can take a great portrait as long as we invest a
little effort in establishing the lights to illuminate the subject. I learned better from people who actually do it, no skin softening tricks that Digicam or Instagram does, only the tips on capturing a sharp image directly from the camera, how important is the right exposure, the poses that is useful for either male or female subjects, and how to direct them.
Looking at these photos, one might think it was shot in a studio when in fact, it was just the same board room where we had the Seminar in Worldwide Corporate Center (WCC) in Shaw Blvd, it was also broadcast live with our friends in Sykes Cebu. We made use of the equipment that everyone shared, and that one needs to have if interested in delving into photography business. Here I used what I learned during the seminar, the kinds of poses we asked of Ria Delos Santos, our female model. I was really fun to put a name on the poses, model poses that I would like to try with friends and incoming clients for photography gigs.
Unfortunately, our male model wasn't able to come around, so I didn't get to practice taking portrait of a male subject. But Ria proved to be so much more than what I can handle, she was professional in taking direction with a lot of photographers taking her picture at once. Considering the number of poses that we asked from her, its won't be surprising if she ended with a some muscles pains for being in a position for a length of time. There was no denying that she was a model through and through, being multi faceted, she only had to do little change, show or hide some angles in her face and you'll see a different look altogether. It made all my colleagues excited all throughout the shoot as Ria delivered frame after frame of really good shots. Now I can't wait to have another model shoot, who wants to model for me?
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I love the last shot. It looks so fierce. Ang galing din ng model na magproject. :)
ReplyDeleteGood shot! Galing mag-pose ng model and she is gorgeous, exotic ang beauty.
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