Posing for Portrait Photography

posing by taking each of the poses you know and really maximizing

them. It also gives your client the maximum variety from each pose

they do.

Variations are simple, yet effective changes you can make in a

single pose to give it a completely different look. By changing the

hands, arms, and/or legs in any pose, countless variations become

possible. In the two sets of photographs that follow, you can see

how variations work. You start out with a basic pose and come up

with a variety of options for the placement of the hands, arms,

and/or legs. This takes one posing idea you know and turns it into

five or ten different poses.

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Using variations can quickly turn one pose
into five or ten (below and through page
119).