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Hi! I'm a hobby sports photographer and I mainly do football (soccer). I was asked to do a media day to take individual portraits of the players and coaches which is completely different from what I usually do (matches, action, etc.).

Do you have any tips on what tripod is best (and affordable), which poses work best (sponsor needs to be visible (chest)) and which lens is best for portraits?

For reference: I use a Sony A7III and my main lens is the Sony GM 70-200 f2.8, I also own the 28-70mm kit lens but it only goes down to f3,5 and I'm not sure if that is enough for good quality portraits. I have two clubs I'm working with; one where portraits should be taken outside so I really need the sun and the other one has a white background I can use as well as two soft boxes.

Feel free to leave any tip or advice. Tysm!

My boyfriend (M20) broke up with me (F18) 2 days ago. It was an amicable break up but not mutual; we both had our individual problems (him avoidant (parents divorced when he was a child), me anxiously attached (never experienced unconditional love from parents)) but I was willing to work on myself and I've been in therapy (and still am) even before we met. I didn’t want to throw away the potential our relationship had because the relationship itself was never the problem; I really saw a future in my partner even though we've only been together for roughly half a year.

I know it sounds stupid and most people will probably say that there’s sb better for me or that life will go on and that we’re both still so young. But I want a second chance for us, I can't explain how much love I feel for him and I knew the only way I could show him was to respect his wish to part ways. If I had accepted it, I wouldn’t be here right now. I just miss him so much (Ik I'm in the early stage of a break up and that time will heal all wounds). I know we'll be NC for a while (maybe days, weeks or months idk) and it'd be fine with me if somehow I knew that we’d end up together eventually again.

I'm also really anxious about the thought of him getting with sb else, he assured me that he was not planning on a rebound and that he's fine by himself not like other people who jump from relationship to relationship but idk if he still might hook up with sb or more and it’s driving me nuts. I'm the type of person that only has sex with their partner because it’s so intimate and emotional in my eyes but my ex had several sexual partners before me without any strings attached and in the beginnig it made me really insecure about myself but I eventually stopped thinking about it. Now that we’re separated that insecurity and anxiety is back. We unadded / unfollowed each other everywhere but Instagram and we still got each other’s #.

I feel so sad and my body is fully stressed. I feel like I want to die. Idk what to do i just want him back, can sb pls help