Well I think we all learned something new at last night's workshop on portraiture presented by Philip Scanlon (www.photosbyphilip.com).
Philip started off the evening by going through the various steps involved in him obtaining his "L" - Licentiate of the Irish Photographic Federation award. After that, he showed us a selection of his work and pointed out what problems he had had to overcome for particular shots and shared with us the essential "sticker" tip.
Following on from this, he ran through some basic lighting set ups and demonstrated the effects of various lighting techniques with the aid of his volunteer model for the evening.
I think we are all looking forward to the follow-up portraiture session in 2 weeks time.