Hi this is Vanessa Joy here with Breathe Your Passion on AdoramaTV and I'm going to show you a few
quick tips on how to pose a bride. I’m a wedding photographer, New Jersey and this is Catherine she's
also a wedding photographer, so she might know a few things and and help us out even
more. A few things you think when you're posing a bride. Number one, big tip every bride I
don't care how beautiful she is or how skinny she is, always thinks she looks fat so
you want to make sure we eliminate that problem. It's funny some of my in thinest
brides are the ones that are the most self conscious and as a photographer it's your job to make
sure they look amazing. So first off a typical pose that I usually have with my
bride is I have them mirror me. I want you guys to see so I'm going to face this way but
you're going to start off with your foot forward, you’re going to face this camera here
because I’m going to stand there.
Let’s switch your feet so you're doing exactly what I'm doing, so you left foot goes forward, you’re going to lean on
your back leg and the reason we lean on the back leg is we are going to push our hips
away from the camera. Anything that you want to be smaller moves away from the
camera, so that is hips and then second it’s usually arms. So you are just going to hold onto your dress and perfect
you’ve got that bend in the elbow. Now when she's bending her elbow you want
to make sure that there is space between her arm and her waist, if you push them
together like this, it's going to kind of create the illusion that it's all one
piece and we want to break up the pieces here. So you want to make sure you can see her waistline
which is gorgeous, thank you. So thats another thing you want to do. We’ve put her hips back, we’ve created a
little bit of a waistline here and then we want to make sure that her body is not
facing the same direction as her head. Which she’s already doing. So her body is facing this
direction, her head we are going to have her turn a little bit that way. I’m just going back up, I'm going to get my exposure
here first and I do that by the way through live view typically, so I'm going to get
what I want to do. We're at 800 on my shutter speed, f/2.5 on my aperture and my
ISO is at 400. Perfect. I’m going to back up. Go ahead and bring your head down that way a little bit. Nice.
Look at me. Big cheesy smile. Gorgeous. See just how beautiful her skin looks, every part of her looks dynamic
she looks thin and gorgeous and thats defiantly what we are going for.
Sometimes having that dead on look is nice and it tends to be a little bit popular
right now just kind of that standing there very natural, very like you caught that
bride in that moment. So thats whats we are going to do. She's doing a really good job
doing it by herself. If she had a bouquet you just kind of hold it, but right
now you can just kind of play with your ring, your wedding ring, perfect. By having her bender arms were
creating that space in her waist. We’re also making sure that she's not flat-footed
you don't want her just standing down. You want her giving a little lean. This is going to give her body a little
bit more curve. You’re just going to lean on one leg, either one, you know what the leg you’re not
leaning on you can just give your foot a little kick. She looks awesome. I’m going to come back here.
The same exposure. Nice, beautiful.
Right off the bat, I don’t see her hand and I want to make sure I see her hand.
So when you grab your dress bring it in front. This hand can come up a little bit more. Just like right here and grab your dress, beautiful.
I always love adding movement finally, adding movement to your bride because she doesn’t just have to
stand there and that can be a little bit boring. So what I’m going to have you do, take two more steps
backwards. One, two. Right there. First you’re just going to hold your dress and you’re going to go back and forth.
Just like Cinderella, you know just a little girl in her wedding dress. Perfect
Then lately what you are going to do, take one more step backwards and you're going to walk towards me just like
you're doing a catwalk. So go ahead take a walk towards me. Perfect. Just in a few minutes we've got a ton of
pictures of our bride. So thank you so much Catherine. Make sure that you subscribe to AdoramaTV on the
bottom here because we will be doing a lot more posing with the bride and groom
and I will see you next time. Thanks for watching Breathe Your Passion here on AdoramaTV.