of half of her left thigh and, at the same time, giving us a nice tapered look
to her legs. I had her turn her left shoulder toward the camera, widening her
shoulders and, in proportion, slimming her waist and hips. I further slimmed
her hips by turning her left hip away from the camera. Arching her back and
tipping her right shoulder down put the curve in her waistline, completing
the hourglass.
Jenny, like Kristal, is short and has bigger hips (below). In this outdoor
pose, I started asking her to turn her right hip toward the camera. Since we
don’t see her left hip or leg, we don’t even think about their size. Out of
sight, out of mind. Next, I asked her to turn her left shoulder back to the
camera, widening her shoulders and proportionally slimming her waist and
hip. Because the light in the creek bottom was rather flat, I used a portable
flash with a diffuser as a main light, directing it into her hip to flatten it. The
shadow created on her hamstrings tends to slim her legs a bit, too.
Here, the model’s pose and the shadows cre-
ated by the lighting are used to slim the look of
her hips and thighs.