Jeff Smith. Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography. 2008

Mouth and Expression.The mouth must be, for lack of a better word, “posed” properly. Don’t ever forget the old saying: expressio ...

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The hair can’t strike a pose, but you as a professional are responsible for ensuring that your subject’s hair isn’t in their eye ...

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Chin and Neck. The chin and neck area is probably the least photogenic of the body. It is the first area to show age in older pe ...

Shoulders and Spine. The widest view of any person is when the person is squared off to the cam- era. By turning the shoulders, ...

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ders shouldn’t form a horizontal line through the frame; a diagonal line makes the portrait more interesting and the subject les ...

they lay on their stomachs and relax on both elbows, or they use their arms to rest their chin and head. Any time weight is put ...

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this strategy makes your subject look like a mannequin from the 1960s. Also, when you have the hands posed in such a way, it can ...

or what they are to hold. If you watch people relaxing, in fact, you’ll see that they tend to fold their hands or rest them on t ...

eliminate the shadows in the same areas. This can be done by simply turning the body of the subject toward the main light. Waist ...

texture of the muscles in his stomach area. Simply turn the subject away from the main light to enhance the shape of this area. ...

gain weight in their hips and thighs. Unless you are a woman or live with a woman, you never will realize how much women worry a ...

woman who worries about weight will automatically choose to take every- thing from the waist up. With carefully chosen words, cl ...

woman, but it enlarges the bottom and thigh, which isn’t salable for 90 percent of women. Just as the arms shouldn’t be posed ne ...

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The thighs must be separated, if possible. Obviously, if the client has on a short dress, this isn’t possible. Instead, simply h ...

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