alright guys what's up my name is Brett Garamella today we're gonna talk about
how to get a defined jawline alright so let me just get started here alright so
a lot of people want to know how to make their jaw line more accentuated in
photos and a lot of that comes down to you know why my computer's make so much
noise um I must speak up a little bit so a lot of that comes down to your
technique and the equipment you use so having really having certain equipment
can help and then using it properly imposing your model properly can really
help so let me talk about that first so one thing I recommend to get this draw
line is to really hold the light up now I'll demonstrate with the light I have
over here if I have this light not bring it on right if I hold it up high alright
and I hold it down I'm just put my hat backwards easier so
if I hold this light up high right no matter where I hold it as long as it's
pretty high up you can see the shadow underneath here right you can see my
jawline no matter where I turn long as this is pretty high you can see my
jawline if I have it like down here it's not gonna be as pronounced I think this
is gonna be tough nice moving around and talking simultaneously alright so you
always want to have the light above the subject you want to have it at a point
where if you're using if you have natural light or artificial light it's
got to be above eye level going down so you have a shadow any shadow under here
that's created under here as you can see the lights coming from over here and you
can see mice you can see on my neck right here you can see the shadow and
it's sort of gonna be defined right and also right here because I have it up
you can still see that line right there now one way to get rid of that we don't
always want to use you don't always want to have a jawline right the way to get
rid of it if you're doing like more beauty stuff and just so you know
knowing how to get rid of it will help you improve and get it so have you ever
seen this right you see how my jawline is just disappearing right now see how
that shadow just disappeared because I hold a reflector see it without it now
with it you hold it up there you just open it up right and open up a big one
all right so let's open up the silver so you can get one of these reflectors and
this reflector will basically create light and bam look at that it's all gone
underneath right so I have reason to have a jawline I have a beard so you can
see it right but if I didn't have the beard it wouldn't be as substantial one
thing you could do is you can just hold it underneath your models so anytime you
have it things it's too big alright so over here with it all right
now without it okay see the difference see you especially when I turn you see
that jawline right now see that shadow now with it all gone
right so anytime you use like a reflector or
something like this your jawline is gonna disappear so that's more of a
feminine soft look but having the jawline gives you a much stronger look
one thing you can do is you can move the light to the side if I move the light to
the side over here to my side right here right and of course I want it up it's
not up right now not as high as it like it so remember you want to move it high
the higher you move it better all right that's gonna help create a better
jawline right so it's kind of one of it's not pointing
down right I point it down right here see there's a draw line there's a shadow
all right it's kind of hard to demonstrate and do this simultaneously
so let me just try to stop that all right so just lower this alright so one
thing you want to do as a photographer you always want to keep the light above
that'll help give you the nice that jawline if you're doing Beauty you want
to get rid of it put one light up top and then put that
reflector underneath you'll get rid of that jawline another thing you can do
just change the angle all right person to the side see their
jaw you sort of got to move them around to get like the best angle all right
certain people look better at different angles their jaw is more accentuated
like some people have that like Jay Leno jaw and others don't you know so you
know a person has like a cartoonish type jaw you may not want to shoot them here
unless you want to make them look like cartoon you may want to shoot them more
straight on okay but you just turn them a little and still get that jaw line
defined now one thing to do to pose so we talked a lot about equipment now
let's talk about and a little bit about technique let's talk more about
technique one thing I like to do is to tell the person to lift the back of
their head a lot of people say lift your chin up right but if I live with my chin
up I look weird I don't look natural that's completely different than what
you want to do right as a photographer you don't want the person to look weird
all right so you never want to say chin up never say that all right instead if
they're slouching if they're like in a weird pose or whatever other people are
other people are like this kind of nowadays like love it chin back anytime
you have your chin back you're not gonna see the jawline see how
you're not seeing as define now and it's also not looking flattering shoulders
are kind of hunched sit up straight all right and lift the back of my head
right so one thing you want people to do is just to lift the back of their head
all right the reason is because if they lift the
front they could lift the chin up and it's a weird angle
all right so you don't want those weird angles so you say lift the back of the
head once you get the back of the head lift up and they're still back here too
much just telling to move their forehead forward slightly remember it's all
slight adjustments because I'm something like this I look like a soldier right it
doesn't look natural so you always want to make make these changes but tell the
person to relax and all right stick lift the back of your head and relax okay so
that's one thing I like to tell the people sit up but relax okay so I'm
sitting up like this number Lacs right so they're kind of
looks natural right maybe my Chin's not defined enough stick it out now I'll
just move to the side BAM you got it all right just make micro adjustments so
first thing you do make sure they're sitting up normal all right if you tell
them to smile when people smile laughs a lot of times their head goes back you
see no jawline so remember make sure their heads forward then tell a joke
make sure they're you know because if they just tell the joke or something to
get them to smile it may be a good smile but sometimes their head is back all
right whatever reason people don't like to move their head towards the camera
all right so sometimes it may feel a little awkward for the person but
remember we're trying to get that jawline exposed
all right we're trying to get a more defined jawline so steps for getting a
good jawline I'm gonna go over a summary one you got a it's good to use
artificial lighting never don't put it straight on all right you want to put it
to a side 45-degree angle I like I prefer it could be even more so to the
side make sure it's above the subject
pointing down to create that shadow underneath all right the next thing you
got to do is make sure the person is sitting upright so tell them to look the
back of their head and then you could just have them move their head slightly
forward just a little bit maybe that was too much right there
right and if you still want to pronounce it a little more just have them turned a
little bit BAM there's your jaw BAM there's your jaw line all right those
are steps to get a good looking jawline all right one last thing just thought of
another thing I didn't mentioned so sometimes when you shoot actually when
you shoot I would say people who have or overweight all right we have a lot or
heavy all right they might have some extra they might have like a double chin
or extra skin under here or sometimes elderly people and so forth they don't
have the skins not tight right like this so what you want to do is you actually
want to go not shoot at eye level but actually shoot above and shoot slightly
down I would say especially with women because women are more cognizant of that
and they really don't like to see a double chin sometimes guys you can get
they can get away with it a little more like a heavy guy may still look look
slightly flattering where is a woman with a double chin will probably not
look as flattering so I'd always recommend especially you're shooting
like brides or are people who are a little overweight just shoot above
looking down and then that takes out the chin the double chin all right and you
still get a nice jawline but you don't get all the fat and everything
underneath here all right so that's one last tip to remember so guys I hope that
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