I know many photographers really wanna take photos of people
now this could be any kind in situation we could be talking at the wedding
posing people at the wedding
it could be you niece so said i really wanna do some modeling uncle Mikey
can you take some pictures of me
but the key is you gotta know how to get someone to stand how to pose
now I would assert that one way of doing that is to spend some money on a professional
model
really knows what they're doing you gotta be really straight up with them
and tell them what it is that you are doing,you want them to teach you something
and then hire them to do that now sitting with me here is the lovely
Steph who's been a professional for a very long time
and you know you've been published in all sorts things done all shoots
havent you
yea and i mean do you think they're hiring a professional model could help some
and learn
stuff massively first off
and hiring someone who knows how to pose
is massively beneficial because if you're photographing your niece
she's gonna stand there
expressionless may be smacked a cheesy smile in
whilst if you hire, yea the duck face as they call it
whilst if you hire a model
modeling and acting are quite similar, a model can display emotion and
that's one of the massively beneficial things that hiring a professional model
is they can create the the voice or any vision that you have
it's amazing I often find it amazing watching you guys when you work with a photographer
just says
gimme moody be sad yeah be happy
laugh where is like with your niece or your nephew or something like that you've
actually got to
create that emotion in the person but also I'm thinking about body shapes
angles you know
it's like say the old cheesy nineteen sixties seventies
thing like this which personally i think looks dreadful and hideously dated
but subtleties of where you feet of, where your legs of, where your hands of
things like that yeah being aware the lighting as well knowing
which direction you're facing especially in a studio Environment if you got two lights up
knowing which one is your main light and knowing which light to pose towards
where if you photographing a family member or friend they wouldn't
have a clue what they're doing absolutely yes I meaning is another benefit hiring
a professional model
and you just said you know what the light is doing you
you would be in a position to be able to say, you do realize that right now
got big black shadow
which is the lights coming from there because someone who's learning you can be
lost in
oh have i got them right I got my camera da da da and you can
sort of help with that I mean
I haven't done a huge amount of posing people i did a kind of
boudoir shoot actually from I am book keeper which i found it kinda odd
but i did you know
I don't work in that well I i've done very little bit would you be prepared to
i don't know just teach me a few things to work next go through some shapes and some
things i love working with a professional model is rarely i do it because
yeah i just didn't get that opportunity
yea that would be cool, im gonna go grab a camera there's the camera
camera will do some stuff in a bit
what fun
where we gonna go and Steph what are we gonna okay well because we cannot focus on
shapes we're not too worried about the background right now
we worry about things like that later on what we're actually creating an image
ways right now we're looking at what you can get out with me
so we're gonna start with some full length shots
maybe then do some 3/4s and then some portraits and
ill show you how to get my stuff of me awesome
that's really cool i'm loving this
okay so well okay where would we go way way you wanna work from here on the
crosswalk or what
a supposed we take a step on to the grass something as well
I mean I'm cheat y little bit view it because im using a super wide
aperture 1.7 lens here with a fancy electric
electric so i can shoot in this light because
so you can see what steph is showing me and how we gonna do
things
okay Steph for full length shot
yeah am right teach me here okay
but one of the things I see in a lot of amateur models and
where they make a big mistake the hands and i mean i used to do it when I started up
it tense hands
hands of fist you know it that doesn't look very
good so relaxed hands i can spot fingers
so hands numbs need to be nice and loose first off
so arms ready
legs I'm gonna show a little bit of my heel
and stick my hip out ever so slightly not much otherwise with
were verging on glamour for the fashion and that be
the first shot which is quite casual yet quite relaxed yea and looking at the way
you position your
foot your toes to use your wrist etc
these are things you guys can study
and if you got a model it's showing it is gold time you know as you noticed
I'm showing the side of my hand oppose the back of my hand because that seems
quite masculine thing to show the back of your hands so it's more lady like in
feminine
to show the sides of your hands this this feet is really swan like
take alot of practice in the mirror
okay so let's have a look let's go for full length shot im gonna move back a bit
because i have a fixed focal length here we go with a full length shot
I am gonna come on this way because i want to hide that nasty
thing behind you get you get you in focus
perfect i mean that's a lovely looking
sort of that we've got going on in that picture
that's quite sweet yeah nice little sort of thing I mean ignore the
house and all the mess on the background ok so
time tell me some else things to watch for if you're gonna ask a model
to to to pose like that well
postures a really big one I used to have a terrible posture before i started and
modeling actually helped me become
i walked more confidently and i've got much better posture thanks to modeling
a bad posture looks awful in picture so you gotta
pretty much have your shoulders square over back ever so slightly
and it makes you feel better empowers the model to be like that
I I'm damn proud to be able to shoulders back
it feels good and it looks better than that
absolutely okay so let's have a go
another full length one I'm gonna see if I can just video
through the camera should i do a 3/4 this time ? im coming a bit
now I'm exposing at steph because
here we go we rolling now I'm exposing for
step the background is blowing out you can see from this
steph can you forward you shoulder a bit
forward or back
is come forward you doing that so don't you know like don't stand like this show
show not to stand
yea going to show me what yous show me be just now
look at the did you see what a difference that is just that
tiny movement makes a world of difference looking through the view finder
see it
let me switch the video off and take
there he is
you lost our camera man
I'm gonna take the video off and just take that image
that's really looking cool nice one
okay now something I notice as well
doing this with Steph is the almost every time the camera goes click
Steph moves
just a little movement and this is like the mark a seriously experience
model because you just know that you this click it depends what the photographer is
looking for some time the pose is right but the head position on the facial
expression isn't
so sometimes also change everything my facial expression when my head is and
where my body is all
I will just tweak one small part of that or maybe just my hands or just my feet and
so yea try to mix up a little bit but not too much, let's do that , can we just do
that to show people what that looks like so i mean if i just
set you up here not something you do need to to watch for guys and girls were
watching this video I'm
many experienced models with also say a be careful with this because the sun's
coming from here but it's still your jobs as photographer just to keep an eye
these things
totally lost in one thing a okay so if I was to take that shot
that's really nice
there's a really there's was a strong hi lights on Stephs eye, that's better
you see what i mean you still have to watch these things that might take the same picture again
got a much nicer light on Stephs face
now Steph she immediately changed her head
from up there,and a different up there
can you see from that how the sequence of picture
how invaluable this is you need to study this you need to think of this
as an experiment as a lesson im gonna share a little thing with you years ago when i
started
am in photography I totally black my way into photographing a Marks &
Spencer's fashion shoot
Don't Tell them alright but i have no idea I what i was doing but I managed to get it
yeah I did and I shot in everybody was happy rock-and-roll
buck one other things are really got was i was talking to some of the models there
i said look im learning i told them the truth about what I'm trying to do
they would you like to come out with me
will you teach how to show people how to stand and what to
do and Exchange if you want any of the picture of-course you can have them
and I think the key being authentic because couple the girl Tanya
particular hezcroft if your watching this Tanya hezcroft i haven't seen you for many years
would be brilliant so call me
tanya hezcroft she took me out and we did a few shoots that I learnt
so much i can tell you she's done how to stand how to hold a head and all that sort of thing
should we do another one yeah teach me something else
okay well another thing that I love newer models make the mistake of this
hands-on face which sometimes looks a bit bizarre
kinda cheezy
it's a bit 1960 isn't it yea that and the whole hand behind head like you said earlier
im gonna roll the video camera
will you show so we gonna do a bit of how not to do it
now if you just go into kinda what you think will work what will work
from this, look at that can you see
what a subtle move that is go back to the one
that doesn't yea and again to the one that does
somehow there's something also
I don't know what it is language and in what the word is a not very good at that
it is a whole world difference ok im just gonna kill that
video and
kill that video if i can
and shoot the picture
here we go
awesome
got it sorry right teach me another thing another thing I'm enjoying this
we got for it I'm enjoying this as i said the hands on face can be
a right pain and alot of models don't appreciate when that being booked by
photographer
and a makeup artist pick my hands on the face ruined the
makeup which a right pain
say if I am doing any poses when I touch my face
I don't actually really touch my face ever so slightly
fingertips because that doesn't look get you see where im actually pressing on the skin
i tell you what
while you just look through here see if we can see that
so if I do is shot and right we've gotten touching now I'm Way
and let's do the caressing the light
it's not actually
making it dimple on your cheek
an issue that is smizz the make up alot of work goes into make up i mean i sat
to make up i sat for three hours sometimes before it even
got into the studio and got the shots doesn't make the make up artist very happy in
the photographer is not happy when he is to go and photoshop later
and fix it all absolutely come on one more give me another lesson
enjoying it i really love working here it's fun Stephs boyfriend is on camera here we got
we got awesome Dave Kai Piper fashion photographer
who's doing the video and he keeps moving around but
so i told you were gone people, give me another lesson
well as i dont have the most fabulous figure
which I've quite happy with and
i accentuate my figure
by moving my hips accordingly and same with my shoulders
so again just standing normally this
not much but i can with my body appropriately
to make myself look more feminine it depends on the type shots your doing
puts really well with lingerie because you know you need to be more feminine
lingerie and brief wise
how shoots about where is that with fashion
it doesn't always let good if you're really poking your hip out like that
yeah I get what youre saying and
I mean I guess then we go to just do that
we got Steph i need to change the exposure sorry about this guys
just a little bit bright there we go that's
better and Ok so like you really given yourself a hip
and stickiny bum right out to the side there got you
there's one kind of a look
show me another can you demonstrate something else you see thats some really
really nice shape isn't it and it's what makes a great picture
but knowing how much is too much because some would say
very
kinda stereotypical glamour
whilst just having a very subtle hint
yeah now I noticed it is looking through head of your dress is
absolutely smooth and flat yeah
because otherwise it's a nightmare in photoshop there's creases in it
and specially if you are shooting fashion you know you're focusing on the clothing
say the clothing has to be perfect if that's creases in it that you've to edit it in
photoshop you not going to be very happy with me after
i totally get it
and these are things that the photographer
you become my experience you can learn to look for but if you
can get the guidance had someone like Steph it's gold
its absolute gold you know have a conversation with your model don't be shy
whether you're male photographer or female photographer doesn't matter don't be shy
and also I think the most important thing is you could be completely
authentic
everybody knows if someone is joking someone that aren't now guys ok
want to be like I'm in control I got my camera
photographer but would have will learn stuff and begin somewhere
yeah and I think anyone anywhere is ever gonna go
he was just stupid you can just say look im this stuff and I'm really wanna know
how do i do this how do i do that . that other thing I want to briefly touch on as well
is as you become more confident they can be very easy to get lost in the
photography the you doing
and do things like this a Stephs hair laying across her face
just to stick your hand that's not going like that yeah
don't touch the mode
it's absolutely okay once he built a Rapport with the model and you can so steph do you mind if i move your hair
move your hair if it goes in your face
and then Steph can say yes or no you know but dont just waitin remember you
got another human being here who is a professional person
so Steph thank you so much for doing that brilliant you're
brilliant on camera isnt she good Dave?
but yea
you know back n don't just gone hire
the pretty girl from down the street or the good looking young guy who lives
next door
don't you say hi i;; buy you a karaoke and some beer if you come and do that
it's the experience is the users experience Steph has had working with
people like dave and with other photographers in all sorts of walks of life
and realms
that has given you the knowledge and it's invaluable
so guys reverse engineer a bit
let the model tell you what to do to tell the model that you want them to do
that
and i think it will be great than you Steph
you are very welcome, so will gonna have a beer let Dave put the camera away
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