Hi this is Vanessa Joy here with Breathe Your Passion on AdoramaTV and we're
going to give you some tips on posing a groom. This is brad here,
he's actually a newlywed so he's done this a few times by now but when you're
posing your groom, a few quick tips. Number one,
men want to look more powerful as opposed to women who tend to want to
look more dainty in photos.
So overall when I'm shooting a guy I will usually shoot from a slightly lower
angle then I would shoot a woman. A woman, I would shoot at a higher angle which
would make thin them out, make them look a little bit more dainty. A guy, obviously don't
want to not thin them out but shooting slightly more low with your camera
angle will give them a little bit more of a sense of feeling more powerful in
the image. So we'll start off there.
What I'm going to have to do is come right up against this wall, and guys I do tend to
like to put them in a little bit more relaxed of pose.
So you're just going to lean against the fence here, put one foot up, both hands in
the pants pocket and however you're comfortable with whichever foot is fine . Just
like that you got it.
Personally I like to have thumbs out and that's exactly what Brad did, he's got his
thumbs out.
Some people like the whole hand in, personally I like to see thumbs.
I’m going to start with setting my exposure first, right now I have my
shutter set at 800, f/2.5 on my aperture and then my
ISO is at 400.
I'm also manually dialing in my white balance, right now it's at 6,500. I also
really love the light that's on Brad right now. We have the light coming from
the side, so he had the perfect side light. Which is also something that you
tend to do with men because it's going to make them look a little bit more
rugged, little more manly.
So you are perfect just like that. Go ahead actually look towards that angle
first. I'm going to get a little bit lower. Get a few different crops here,
perfect.
I did some horizontal, some vertical, awesome and then you can go ahead and
look at me.
Love that, you guys are taking a look at those pictures right now on the screen,
you can also get nice detailed here. So just like when I talk about my
couples or talking about a bride
if he's in a good position he's in good light. I'm not going to have him move,
instead i'll just move around him. So I love what you're doing. Keep it up and
then I'm just going to photograph your handkerchief here, I'll photograph your
tie.
Just some of those typical details that you want to get of a groom.
Perfect, why don't I have you take your hands out your pockets and you're just
going to kind of mess with your cufflinks, your sleeves.
There you go, so you can add a little bit of movement into posing your groom as
well.
So go ahead and bend up a little bit more just to right here,
you can look down. I'm going to get a detailed picture first. Love it,
and just sort of just look off to the left there as you're doing that,
perfect.
Love, love, love. All right let's have you go ahead and take your jacket off.
I'll get a couple that way, what's nice as well guys don't have bouquets that we
can use as an accessory,
they of have jackets, and he’s wearing suspenders which are just super fun.
So I'm going to have you kind of fold your jacket, throw it over your shoulder.
Love it and the other hand goes in your pants pocket.
Perfect, guys it's so nice to just kind of throw their hand in their pant pocket.
I tend to do this instead of just letting it dangle by itself. So most of
the pictures I will take will have the pant pocket again with the thumb
sticking out.
Next I'm going to have to come away from the fence because I do want to do some
not with him leaning, not that I don't like the fence. The fence does make him
look more manly, rugged, hanging in his environment, but it does kind of send the
horizon line going through his body. So we'll do some off.
I love his pose what I usually have with guys
same kind of thing where he's holding the jack in the pocket but your front
foot is going to point towards me.
Exactly, you can still kind of give yourself a little lean where you're
facing more towards of the camera over here.
Nice, his body is going to turn that way a little bit but then your head is going
to turn towards me.
Perfect your head can actually even turn ever so slightly that way, we back up a
little bit this way. That looks really good.
Just make sure my backgrounds nice and clean, good.
This is another good spot where you can just kind of do the little details.
Perfect awesome and one more looking at me, nice.
So we just did a full session in five minutes with a groom. So we've got
details,
we've got different poses, different environments, different looks and
that's pretty much what I do want to groom session. Thank you so much for
watching make sure that you click on the bottom to subscribe to AdoramaTV and I
will see you next time with Breath Your Passion here on AdoramaTV.