Portraiture Workshop

Attended the BootBOX portraiture workshop last Sat, where the focus was to try and break away from the ordinary "pretty smiling face, half-body, randomly blurred background" type of shots. Had some fun trying to break my conventional style, though old habits die hard and most of my attempts fell into the "regular" bucket.





The event itself was marred by bouts of stormy weather and bad logistics planning. The prearranged transport never arrived, and those of us with vehicles had to double as ferries for the rest. We started shooting late, rushing madly to capture something interesting before the sky turned completely dark.

One thing that I'm sure of - it gets messy with a large group of shooters. There were around 20 people shooting four models, and we kept getting in each other's way. I now understand the value of smaller organized shoots.

I'm just happy that I learned a couple of new things during the session, despite all of the hiccups.