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and today we're gonna talk about posing
a bride and groom together.
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Here's the thing...
if you want lots of ideas about how to
shoot the bride and groom,
check out this other video...
'Ten ideas on shooting a bride and groom together'
But I want to give you the basics when
you're posing a bride and groom together,
you're simply posing a bride in a feminine
way and a groom in a masculine way, and
having them come together.
Posing a bride...
if you want more
on posing a bride we've got a video for
that too.. Posing a bride...
you're looking for an s-curve.
You want to make sure
that her weight is on her back hip, her
front leg is well in front, and bent and
a little bit over the other knee.
Now posing a bride, I'm not gonna tell them
all those things. They will have no idea
what to do.
Don't ever say left and right with the
bride... or any subject at all, they will
get it wrong every time.
But what I like to do..
is I like to mirror them, say.. look at me,
pretend I'm a mirror, just do what I do.
This is like a really fun game of Simon
says... here's what we're looking for.
She's got her weight, this weight, on her
back hip.
We've got this knee bent so
it's creating a curve here...
this is the s-curve we're talking about
right up here...
it's actually like a backwards one
I guess. So she's doing it on the other side.
You also want to make sure there's
separation between her
waist, and the elbow,
because that shows us where
her waist is.
Her shoulders are asymmetrical.
One is higher than the
other very important.
Her face is turned towards the light so
we've got really nice shadow pattern
happening right there.
Man I've made a mess of that..
then you're just gonna take the groom.
Now his poses are a little bit different.
For him we're gonna make it blue, we want
to have his chest facing towards the light.
If you want to learn a lot more..
about grooms posing check out this other
video...
but in the meantime here are the
basics...
the weight is still in the back
leg, but the front leg, we're not doing
a nice curve for him, we are just having
his foot point towards us.
So kind of a straight line, his shoulders
are pointed towards the light.
His head is slanted down towards the
shoulder in the back.
Anyway it's slanted down towards that shoulder...
slanted down that way.
I've taught this before.
You want to make sure that the
masculine pose is like this.
It's for the hair is possible to fall down
then it's more of a masculine pose, as
opposed to the other shoulder...
where it's more of
like it was a hair toss... all right!
There's other videos on that...
you still want his face going towards the
light, but it doesn't have to have so much of
an angle, because you can have a little
bit more structure, and a little bit more
shadow going on here.
So that's your groom now, you want to
take everything you know about posing
the groom, and everything you know about
posing the bride, and put them together.
Let's see if we've done it here, we've
got the s-curve happening right here.
The weight is in the back leg, there's
separation right here in between the
waist and the elbow.
Her shoulders, they're kind of symmetrical,
so I could have done a better job there.
Her nose is pointed towards the light,
we've got that nice shadow pattern...
right there also.
Note that her body is turned away from
the light, this is showing up the detail
in the dress, and also slimming for a woman.
The guy.. we've got the weight on
the back leg, the front foot is pointed
forward. We do have some separation for
him as well, between the waist and the
elbow, a nice little curve going right
there, with a hand in the pocket.
He has that tilt of the head down right, the
head is tilted down for him, and still
nose towards the light,
but not quite as
much as our bride ...
and there we go!
I think we did it...
that's how you pose
them together.
Now you can vary it from here.
I know this is a traditional pose,
and it's kind of boring, but that's why
this is the posing basics video.
The things that you have to think about..
anytime you're posing a bride and groom,
or brides and grooms in any position at
all.
When you want something to look
masculine and feminine.
These are the rules, break the rules.
I'm sure it will be fine.. here now you can
move it around.
So we've got this picture here,
we're just moving their eyes around.
She's looking in a different spot, but
it's still that same type of thing.
This is what happens a lot, you think hey
let's get them to look at each other, but now
what have you done?
This poor bride now
has her face in shadow,
and she does not
look very good at all.
So what can you do..
you can pop in a reflector and light up
her face a little bit.
That's an option...
it's okay, the lighting pattern was
better before, but this is an option, and
that's it. Just follow those basic things
to keep a bride looking feminine, and the
groom looking masculine, and just put
them all together.
Make some magic happen!
This is what happens when you've rolled
a one in Dungeons & Dragons while you're
playing with Fernando, and Daniel Norton,
He's uncomfortable...
I like making orcs uncomfortable.
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