in today's video I'm going to share some tips and tricks with you on how you can gain confidence in
front of the camera but I'm also going to give you some poses that you can utilize so that you always
look your best in pictures let's start with the basics when we are ready to have our picture taken
we usually just go like this automatically we kind of don't know what to do with our hands
with our legs with our posture in general so we tend to just go flat and full frontal like
this now this does not look good on camera you look boring you look awkward you look like you
don't know what to do so the best thing in this situation would be to have a rule for
yourself never do like a full frontal always do a little side thing so by turning your body just
slightly sideways towards the camera this is going to create a more interesting look
plus it's actually more flattering for your body ladies or people in general who are plus
size and feel uncomfortable kind of with the width of their body this is actually a great
pose for you because you are not emphasizing on the horizontal line of your body instead you're
kind of tilting it a bit hiding that horizontal line meaning that the focus is not how wide you
are but more so on other parts of the body how much sideways though because we we don't want
to do this we want to just do a little bit now there isn't a rule for how much you can play a
little bit by ear sometimes you can just move your hips slightly sideways sometimes you can
include your shoulder sideways too sometimes you can actually do something more like this it really
depends on what you wear just remember always a little bit sideways instead of full frontal
then we need to talk about posture and let's put it this way very few people have a perfect posture
including myself and this is something we need to take into account whenever we pose in front
of the camera because the camera is really going to emphasize on your posture issues so whether
you have a little bit of sloppy shoulders like I do or let's say you have a hunchback or I don't
know you have a tendency of pressing your hips forward or I don't know over bending your legs
you need to be really cautious of your posture issues meaning that when it's time to take that
picture you really straighten yourself up like a little ballerina that you are making yourself
really tall rolling those shoulders back pressing that bomb in and just really make up effort like
an extra effort to feel and look taller this is going to help you correct your posture and yes
you should feel slightly unnatural of course don't overdo it don't feel like too unnatural
one trick that photographers tell you to do is to always lean slightly forward a problem that
some people do is that they're too much kind of leaning back and that obviously does not
look flattering on camera and also actually just presses your hips forward presses your
thighs forward so you look a bit bigger than you actually are pushing your bottom a little
bit out and leaning slightly forward not too much like you don't want to you don't want
to start doing something like this more so just like a little touch like hmm oh
we need to talk about your eyes what do we do with our eyes
do it just look like this do it look like this it will look like this like this there are so
many ways how you can gaze into the camera and of course I do recommend that you do a little smize
basically open up your eyes a bit so that you are awake without being this
I'm gonna give you a little trick always look slightly above the camera instead of like
straight into the lens because that can sometimes be a bit too intense and actually you might not
translate really nicely inside the camera versus if you just gaze slightly on top of it foreign
hack that I'm gonna give you the signature sideways so whenever I take pictures I always
do both I always look a little bit into the camera but remember what I said slightly above the camera
lens but then I also like to take a few variations where I just look a little bit on the side not on
the side like this or like that but really just slightly sideways what is interesting which I
kind of don't know why this happens is that if you think that you don't look good looking into
the camera then if you actually look slightly to the side you will see how often times you might
look better don't ask me why this is just magical photography sometimes and if you wonder but Anna
which side you pick and choose find out which side works better for you now I'm gonna give you five
things that you can do in front of the camera with your mouth we're talking now what are you gonna do
with this beautiful gorgeous smile of yours should you be pouting should you look serious I suggest
ladies that you try and smile as much as possible if you don't want to show your teeth that's fine
but try one of these five ways of how you can smile in front of the camera first and foremost we
have the smize so what is the smize well the smize is when you just barely smile but you just move
these parts of your mouth just a tiny bit and then you also smile a little bit with your eyes [Music]
so that's one number two smile with closed lips [Music]
number three smile with lips slightly opened [Music] number four a full natural smile [Music]
number five which I would personally kind of tell you to be a little bit cautious
with because sometimes the face can look a little bit strange a little bit too elastic
that is if you just go all in and do the biggest smile or laugh that you can foreign
but can maybe work for some so which one of these five should you be utilizing well
it really depends on your face and what feels comfortable for you and what you look best in
so basically try out a little bit at home put that camera on self timer and then just click
away and do a little bit of test shooting alone when nobody sees you that's actually going to
give you a little bit of confidence in front of the camera versus when you have to like try out
everything yourself when somebody's taking a photos of you in a public place with everybody
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to disappear in my previous posing video which by the way you have to watch after this video
I did talk a lot about what to do with your arms but one rule ladies that you always always have
to do for yourself whenever it's time for you to pose in front of the camera never just you
know do the hanging arms pose and I'm gonna give you five places where you can place your
arms my favorite place is the hip whether that is one arm or both arms I also like to
put them gently on my thighs like this there is a difference between this and just this
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you can have your arms in the air something like this where you kind of just hold them slightly
together you can also place your hands in your hair same goes if you want to utilize your face
you might want to be careful with this pose where you're basically closing off your body however in
some type of Photography it can work but let's say you're taking a group photo with your best
friends you don't want to stand like this you just kind of look like you don't like anyone lastly you
can also put them in your pockets we have spoken about that in previous video I don't have pockets
to demonstrate you on these pants but you can just imagine that you can kind of look a little
bit cool like this standing you know you know in your pockets next tip ladies please remember this
tip always suck your stomach in and this is both for ladies for men even if you have a bit of a
flat stomach going on it's not just for us with a bit of a belly but truly you will look first
of all taller in the picture if you actually suck your stomach and really press your buttocks in but
keeping your stomach like sucked in will create a nicer silhouette that will simply translate better
in pictures but what do we do with our feet now feet can be tricky and this is where I feel most
people fail because they kind of just stand like this they don't don't really take the peer into
account and I personally believe in the front feet slightly forward because it gives always an
elongating effect and it just looks very feminine very nice and you always know what to do with your
feet but there is a general rule that I want you to remember do 50 50. we don't do 50 50 on this
channel so always put your weights at least on one foot a little bit more which is where this
trick of having your foot slightly in front comes handy in place because you're putting all your
weight pretty much or most weights on your back foot so having an unequal weight distribution is
really helpful because you create a bit of an S shape in your body which tends to look quite
nice on pictures as a woman we are blessed with beautiful curves and Silhouettes and we want to
show it on camera because it is flattering versus than just standing flat and straight like this
if you ever meet me in person and you're like oh Anna feel free to walk up to me I love meeting
you ladies in person but one thing you're going to notice if we take a picture together is that
I will be doing this light light light where is the best light and ladies this is normal
and I actually think that you should be doing this too because depending on how the light is in the
picture how it goes on you it's obviously going to determinate the quality of the image and how good
you look rule number one always find a source of light ideally daylight I don't personally like to
take pictures at night because of the low light but you can still have nice pictures with flash
on try to have light coming from the front of you so you want to be standing in front of a big
window as an example you can also be outdoors the doors is a foolproof just be careful with sunlight
because you want to have the Sun going straight on to you pretty much you don't want to have the sun
coming from behind or from the side because that creates Shadows if you don't have natural light to
work with then of course you have to find where is the best artificial light be careful with certain
ceiling lights there are so many awful ceiling lights that will make you have all kinds of
ugly shadows and if you have a bit of wrinkles that can emphasize wrinkles too so something
to really be cautious with then when you want to speak a little bit about the composition should
you be doing a close-up when you take pictures should you do half body full body what should you
do well it kind of depends or you may be wearing a beautiful outfit that you want to show off or
you may be a tall lady meaning that you will always look fabulous in a full body shot or
are you maybe somebody let's say you're petite and you feel like oh it's a little bit risky for me to
do full body because I oftentimes look a little bit on the shorter side in pictures or let's say
you're not wearing nice shoes that day why would you want to showcase your shoes in the picture
so of course evaluate the situation according to that whether you take full body half body or
close-up I personally have a set formula for those days when I don't want to risk it I just take out
my iPhone I put portrait mode and I just do half body half body portrait mode always comes out good
never ever do portrait mode full body you're gonna look really short and it's not going to
look natural if you want to do full body shots then make sure you do the regular
camera mode make sure you watch my other video I'm posing straight after this video