Posing for Portrait Photography

younger photographers who haven’t studied art theory, buy some
books, go to some museums, enjoy the beauty in the work of the
past and look for ways to improve it for your clients’ work in the
future.
The Client Knows Best.As you can probably tell from the
above, it is usually the photographer’s frame of mind, not his or her
lack of skill or ability, that becomes the biggest obstacle to creating
salable portraits that have a sense of style. Talk to ten photographers
on any given subject and every one of them will think that they have
the best way of handling the situation. However, we could all bene-
fit by keeping in mind that we are in a creative profession and there
is not a single “best way.” The best way to do something is, quite
simply, the way that makes an individual client happy—and what

10 POSING FOR PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

The best way to pose your client is the way

that makes them happy.

We are in a creative profession

and there is not a single

“best way.”