Posing Techniques for Glamour Photography

FACING PAGE—When Tess was preparing for our shoot, I happen to walk to by as she was brushing her hair and notice the reflection ...

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self-esteem and ego. To do this, you could photograph her from a lower angle to make her look taller and thinner (a natural opti ...

I n glamour photography, especially with private glamour photo ses- sions, your subject often relies on your professional expert ...

Being Sensitive to the Subject. Everyone’s body is unique. As photographers, we are charged with por- traying our subjects’ bodi ...

By placing the camera high above the model, I was able to compose the image to suit Niki’s relaxed pose. The angle, along with t ...

26POSINGTECHNIQUESFORGLAMOURPHOTOGRAPHY fashion world, and many men prefer these types of figures. Additionally, heavier models ...

Taking an Individualized Approach. While glamour photography is about the subject’s inner and outer beauty, posing is the portra ...

Then, ask her to hike up her skirt past her knees while bending her legs at the knees. Presto! You have long legs again. Short S ...

which can be very provocative. Then, have the model come up off her hands and sit in a traditional “page three” pose (see chapte ...

hands and arms can help accomplish this concealment of the body’s prob- lem areas. The Three Main Body Sections. Now that we hav ...

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Sometimes body parts make for great images, but they still require posing. In this case, model Lauren was asked to lay down on t ...

From the Waist Down. You can start from the feet to the waist or the waist to the feet, it doesn’t matter. What does matter is t ...

When it comes to the buttocks and upper thighs, especially when the model is scantily clad (the more nude body is harder to phot ...

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Another sensitive area I look at when directing the pose (and some- thing I often show new models) is the tendons found at the u ...

not mandatory that those tendons are revealed, it does add a nice touch in glamour photography when the model is wearing lingeri ...

Framing Tess to camera left allowed her to place one leg out; this is considered the accent leg. The other leg was bent to creat ...

the inner thighs nor the knees should touch. Legs are more appealing and appear more relaxed when they are at least slightly sep ...