Posing Styles.
Business or Yearbook Poses. Having covered our objectives, let’s take a look
at the first basic style of head and shoulders portraits. We’ll call this business or
yearbook posing. This is the classic head and shoulders pose with no hands
showing. It doesn’t have a lot of style, but it’s what most businesspeople and
yearbooks still want.
For this image, you have the subject sitting on a posing stool—and for many
photographers the posing process ends there. But to add some salability to this
basic portrait, why don’t we integrate a few of those corrective posing ideas?
First of all, let’s turn the body toward the shadow side of the frame to thin
the width of the shoulders. Now we have to turn the face back toward the main
light, which stretches out the loose skin under the chin/neck. If the subject
must look very serious or authoritative (maybe an older businessman or a
A traditional pose is still what most people
want for a business or yearbook portrait.For this image, you
have the subject sitting
on a posing stool.