Posing for Portrait Photography

for all shapes of eyes, except for people with bulging eyes. When this

is done on bulging eyes, too much of the white will show and draw

attention to the problem.

Eye Contact. The point at which you ask the subject to focus

their gaze in respect to the position of the camera’s lens also, in

essence, poses the eye. First and foremost, the subject should always

be looking at someone, not something. To do this, I put my face

where I want their eyes to be. There is a certain spark that the eyes

have when they look into someone else’s eyes that they don’t have

when they are looking at a spot on the wall or a camera lens.

Usually, I position my face directly over the camera. This puts

the eyes in a slightly upward position, increasing the appearance of

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Even when the subject is looking off-camera,
they should have a person to look at; other-
wise their eyes may not look engaged.

There is a certain spark that

the eyes have when they look

into someone else’s eyes...