Posing for Portrait Photography

shooting area to another, working with up to four clients at a time.
As you can imagine, this requires some real speed at posing demon-
stration, as I assist each client into the desired pose and then refine
it. Then I am off to the next client.

Helping Your Client Relax.

Demonstrating posing variations will also help your client to relax in
the pose. Just think of yourself doing any new task. You feel kind of
nervous—especially if you have the extra pressure of wanting to look
your best and do this task at the same time. Wouldn’t you appreci-
ate a person to guide you through the task and demonstrate how to
do it as opposed to telling you to “go stand over there and do this”?
We always need to put ourselves in our clients’ shoes.
No matter how silly you might feel demonstrating variations, it
is the most important part of the learning process. You can look at
all the poses shown in this book, get clippings from magazines, and
go to seminars, but until you practice them daily in the same situa-
tion as you will actually use them, designing flattering poses will
always be a challenge to you.

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Demonstrating posing variations

will also help your client

to relax in the pose.