{"id":2607,"date":"2012-06-25T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2012-06-25T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:51:15","slug":"portrait-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"Portrait workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

These portraits were taken at the camera club workshop:<\/p>\n

\"boy<\/a>We run these workshops every month to practice our photography. For this session the theme was posing. We were lucky in that 2 members brought a couple of young nephews to the session (these photos appear by permission of the parents).<\/p>\n

The session was a bit stilted until I got out some props – hats gave the boys a different look and playing with bubbles enabled some really nice photos to be taken. With trying to co-ordinate the activities at these workshops I don’t get to take as many photos as I would like, but between us we took a nice selection of photos – the parents were quite pleased.<\/p>\n

For the first photo that I am showing (above), rather than take a ‘straight’ portrait, I got down low to get a ‘boy with attitude’ look – I think this works quite well as did one with a high viewpoint.<\/p>\n

For the second image, this younger boy is fascinated by tractors:<\/p>\n

\"boy<\/a>When he wasn’t playing with the bubbles he wanted to play with his tractor – I think this is quite a nice shot of him with his favourite toy.<\/p>\n

These workshops, that are held in a local village hall, work quite well and give us an opportunity to practice with our cameras, help each other, make suggestions and learn about photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These portraits were taken at the camera club workshop: We run these workshops every month to practice our photography. For this session the theme was posing. We were lucky in that 2 members brought a couple of young nephews to the session (these photos appear by permission of the parents). The session was a bit … Continue reading “Portrait workshop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}