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05/02/2007 09:18:49 AM · #1 |
| So I bought some black cloth and put it up as a backdrop. I need more colors now to play with. My wife dressed up for me and I took some nice shots...but she had no idea how to pose. She kept saying "What should I do, what should I do?" So...how does one pose? In bodybuilding there are specific poses to exentuate certain aspects that are needed...what about when doing something like a model shoot? |
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05/02/2007 09:31:41 AM · #2 |
| My advice is to look around on DPC and the internet for photos that appeal to you. Look at the model's pose and use that as a reference point. |
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05/02/2007 09:32:41 AM · #3 |
Your best bet is probably to buy a few general magazines (talking normal everyday stuff, not glamour stuff, unless that's what you're shooting) and just study the poses used by the models featured picking out those you particularly like, and then try to emulate.
Think about how head position effects the fold of skin around the neck, how light direction and intensity affects shadows created by the nose and whether it flatters or detracts from the models features and so on.
Main thing is to work on finding poses that don't look too forced. Again, I'd say studying existing photography that you like will give best ideas.
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05/02/2007 09:35:20 AM · #4 |
I agree, magazines are an easy way to practice different poses. Find what you like and practice that.
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05/02/2007 09:36:50 AM · #5 |
I've got a pose file that I keep. I see an image where I think I want to shoot that, I'll tear it out and put it in my pose file.
There are also portrait photographers guides (how to books) that will help you as well. Look in the photography section of your library or bookstore. |
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05/02/2007 10:11:35 AM · #6 |
Often not posing your model at all works well. Just get her to sit there while you look through your lens and compose the frame, and simply talk to her. Engage her somehow. Release the shutter when you begin to see what you like, most probably when she's looking directly at the lens (because she's really talking to you). That's what's going on in the portrait below of my mother, which is not formally posed. There are four of us in the room, and I engaged everyone in conversation, including my mother, and in this image she's listening to what's being said.
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