Jeff Smith. Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography. 2008

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SEATED POSING 81 FACING PAGE—Here, the subject is leaning for- ward and posed at an angle to the camera. ABOVE—Finding natural p ...

Here, both subjects are seated, but at different levels. Still, the subject on the taller seat leans forward to bring her face c ...

the man in a seated pose leaning forward, while the woman is posed on the ground between the legs. We have the man lean onto his ...

T he full-length standing pose can be strikingifyou have the ideal situa- tion—the right client, in the right clothing and shoes ...

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dle-aged men completely shocked by the fact they were bald. They had con- vinced themselves that those three strands of hair twi ...

look at below), then zoom in or adjust your camera position to create the tighter image. You may also be able to create a waist- ...

body or on some element of the scene. The support leg is straight and the ac- cent leg is less dramatically posed than it might ...

realworld that we work in, this rarely happens. Realistically, the client will show up with one outfit—a white top, a black skir ...

Posing. Shoulders at an Angle.When the body rests on an element in the scene, one shoulder is typically lower than the other. Th ...

The thighs are not directly next to each other (or posed identically) and one leg supports the body while the second leg is the ...

W hile photographers get excited about full-length poses, clients get excited about images that are composed closer or in a head ...

full-length images that they forget about the part of the session that gener- ates almost three-quarters of their sales. Client ...

Include the Foreground. The one problem with outdoor sessions taken in a head-and-shoulders style is that clients like to see th ...

pose the body facing the shadow side of the frame and turn the face back to- ward the main light. The size of the face in a head ...

out the ads and pages that have interesting head-and-shoulders images. These images are what set the standard for beauty in your ...

have. A subject looking atsomeonerather thansomethingwill have much more life in their eyes. When I was younger, I used to think ...

to crop the image at the widest part of the base, whether this is the shoulders or (in a pose with the arms on the hips) the elb ...

M any photographers have a difficult time learning how to pose group portraits. The challenge, of course, is that you must apply ...