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Portrait posing guide part I - Learn to pose couples and families, large and small

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Part I - Couples and Families

Follow me on live photo sessions with couples, plus large and extended families and watch me overcome peoples natural tendencies to sit or stand like statues!

  • Real life outdoor photo sessions
  • Warts and all posing i.e. some of them don't quite work, and I say why!
  • Non-model real live people, like you and me.
  • Create beautiful family photos by getting your lovely subjects into more natural, relaxed and flattering positions
  • Practice the easy steps in this course and it will pay huge dividends in your portraits
  • PDF crib sheets are available for most of lectures, keep them with you

Models aside, the majority of us are not aware of our natural and unconscious body positions and so we don't present ourselves as well as we might. Most of us tend not to be concerned with where or how we place our hands and arms, tilt our heads, or position our feet. This course shows how to overcome this problem.

Posing is a powerful skill that will transform your portrait, understand the basic dynamics of a good pose, and then you can create your own.

Syllabus

  • Introduction and overview
  • Extended family posing Part I, how to deal with a large group of people
  • Extended family posing Part II, how to deal with a large group of people
  • Gallery of extended family poses
  • Parents and two children Part I - Sitting, and running around
  • Parents and two children Part II - Standing and sitting on a bench
  • Parents and two older children Part I (repeated from my other course)
  • Parents and two older children Part II (repeated from my other course)
  • Posing couples standing up - Part I
  • Posing couples standing up - Part II
  • Posing couples standing up - Part III
  • Posing couples standing up - Part IV
  • Posing 'fuller figure' subjects (and a dog!)

Taught by

Bernie Raffe AMPA

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