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>>150502 No, not really, not at all.
Portraits are hard. It's not just about lighting. At all.
"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt." - Henri Cartier-Bresson, who didn't use flash at all, and who was the best portrait photographer, IMO.
It has to do with having a rapport, an intimacy with the subject, bringing out who they are. Pick where you shoot, when, the composition, all based on that. And learn to guide the subject.
Yousef Karsh, who shot intricately lit, posed portraits, once was shooting a photograph of a rather rushed Winston Churchill. What did he do? He ran up, grabbed Churchill's cigar out of his mouth, ran back, and pressed the shutter. The pissed-off look on Churchill's face was interpreted as a tough, defiant look at Hitler, not a nicotine addict pissed off at some photographer who snatched his cigar. (Pic related)
So work on all that.
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