Portrait settings using GX7

[Duncan]

How do you set up your GX7 to take portraits? For example, do you use any of the portrait settings on the scene mode dial? And what focus setting do you use to get the person's eyes in focus?

 

[Armanius]

Portrait settings in cameras typically soften or smooth the skin of the subject out at the expense of detail. I personally like to do smoothing on the computer. BTW, just speaking generally given that I don't have a GX7.

 

[moccaman]

+1 on this, I have found shooting people in raw then using LR to be very useful in softening some aspects of a shot without losing the sharpness in the features, eyes etc. Results have printed really well. It may sound like a lot of work but I usually sift through my shots, pick the best couple and then process them, discard the rest into the backup drive :smile:

 

[Mr. Scruples]

Over-expose and under-develop. Then print your contact sheets reversed so that the subject sees themselves as they do when they look in a mirror.

Oh, errrm.. I might not be young.