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so um today we're in the studio again um i have Souadou who is a freelance model from new york
she's visiting la at the moment and what i want to do is to show you guys some really simple posing
techniques that your models can kind of store in memory and and keep this in mind as you do your
photo shoots because when you're modeling and you have no props know where this sits nothing to lean
on nothing to play with on set and they just tell you okay stand in front of the camera and pose
that's one of the most nerve-wracking things for for models is like okay what do i do with my hands
what do i do my legs you feel awkward because you don't have anything to play around with right
so i want to show you guys what you guys can do when you don't have any props you don't have
anywhere to say it's nothing to lean on no other model to interact with is just you standing in
front of a background and the photographer and client is like okay pose for us so
if you may if you will go to the background really quickly i'm going to show you guys
some really simple posing techniques that you guys can keep in mind so stay tuned
all right guys so for the purpose of this video um i do have a flash units um i'm doing i'm doing a
single flash and using the the window as my fill light so this is really just you know for the
demonstration of this video um i'm going to have sowadu just stand in front of the background and
do some poses for me um so the very first thing that models like to do is that they tend to just
stand straight right and they don't know what to do with their with their arms they don't know what
to do with the legs but as a photographer and as someone who's looking at the images
right you want to keep that visual interest going from top of the frame to bottom of the frame
so it's always best to create angles where you can so rather than having both of her hands straight
to the side i advise her to play with the angles and the levels so maybe one hand is on the hip
then you have an angle right here and that already looks more interesting than just standing still
let's shoot that
the next thing that she can do is that she can play with the angles right so you can lean
always want to cheat towards the lights your key source of light which is this right now so you can
lean that way um don't have both of your feets at the same place together they shouldn't be seeing
maybe one slightly in front one slightly in the back another thing that she can do with her hands
again you can raise your elbow up a little bit like maybe you're playing with your hair
or you're kind of like framing your face with your hands a little bit
one can be crossed so you can do different things with your hands but always keep
always keep your hands moving so that way there's visual interest in the frame
and cheat your body a little bit towards the light
now another tip that i always tell models when you're standing still and you're feeling like
okay i don't know what to do i've done all the poses i've done opposing my arms crossed i've done
you know hands in the pocket hands in the back i've done all that just start stretching when
you start stretching you will find the poses in between so what i'm going to tell you stretch,
stretch your arms and pose as you stretch right but always want to keep it elongated rather than
um compacts right so always elongate as you stretch but look effortless you
know make it effortless and look natural yeah okay boom that's it now work the face
work the face cheat towards the light
the light yep stretch out elongate the arms there you go boom boom turn your cheek a little bit
towards the camera just turn that shoulder just slightly yep boom make it effortless
so now for the purpose of the demonstration i'm going to pretty much show you guys the same thing
but for men this time around so as i said a lot of models when they're taking pictures they just
need to stand still if they don't have any props nothing to sit on nothing to lean on no other
model to interact with they just kind of stand still and then they get awkward because they're
like okay what do i do with my hands right so take a few pictures of me and i'm going to show
you try to do it from a lower angle if you don't mind and i'm going to show you guys how i think
through my movements so the first thing i like to do is just put my hands in the back pockets
as you guys can see my toes are not level they're not together
so i try to have one leg one leg up front one leg at the back you know i can separate it um
both of your toes should not be pointed the same direction because you want to create you
want to create a lot of angles and movements so let's work this pose right real quick
can look off look to the side look away one to the camera
okay so now that pose is expired after a couple of shots you want to switch it up right
so go ahead so i'm just going to naturally move into my next position which is just
playing with my sleeves here giving the same thing look away look to the camera look out
cool now as you guys can see i'm doing this really slowly i'm moving from one post to another
basically what i'm trying to do is go from here to here to here looking away do some
poses looking away then i'm going to cross my feet so now this one should be an easy pose
one hand in the pockets again a lot of guys that don't know how to pose they have they
have their toes um leveled to each other right it should never be leveled one hand in the pocket
one hand in the pockets this like having some kind of like motion
a half step
looks way better than just doing this
all right guys so now i've worked the pockets right i did the back pocket i did the front
pocket i played with my sleeves now i said okay if you're running out of ideas what do you do next
you can try some different things like you could cross your legs like this for example
having both hands in the pockets again again the the angles that i'm creating is more
so at the lower part of my body rather than standing straight and keeping my toes to my
toes toe-to-toe basically on a straight line you never want to do that just create some kind of
create an angle create some interesting shapes so i'm going to do a pose like this
and work this one look to the camera look away
look out um work it a little bit maybe for like three or four frames then switch it up so go ahead
and then you can even lean you can exaggerate it if you want to right if the chute calls for it
so again now if you don't know what to do next
start stretching so i'm just going to stretch into my poses
make some movements
another thing that you guys can do instead of just standing straight is to
hop into a pose right so like almost like you're walking so it's like a motion shot even
but you're not really walking out of the frame you're just hopping into the pose so go ahead
right
all right guys so these are some really simple um posing techniques especially when you don't have
props you don't have anything to sit on nothing to lean on you don't have another model to
interact with right so if you're just standing still
and you know in a plain background or in natural environments where there's nothing around you
these are some simple tips that you guys can keep in mind if you guys learned anything new
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