Hi this is Vanessa Joy and
Breathe Your Passion on Adorama TV.
Today we are going to talk about 3
things that you need to think about when
posing couples.
Height, hips and hands.
This is Andy and Abigail.
They are fellow New Jersians.
They are helping me out and we
are going to talk about 3 things
you need to think about when you
are posing a bride and groom.
So they are our bride and groom today.
First thingI want to talk to you about is
height.
So, Abigail, being a girl, wants
to wear heels. Right? We all want
to wear heels.
But that makes her about the same
height as Andy.
Also a lot of the time women
want to appear a little more dainty
while men want to appear a little bit more
taller and masculine.
So what I learnt from Doug Gordan
is how you stand, so that you are
spreading your legs
a little bit like this. It makes
you a little bit shorter. Obviously
I won't be photographing her in the full
length like this. But that will help out
with the first thing we are going to talk
about which is Height.
You guys can face each other, perfect,
and open a bit more.
Get nice and close and second thing
we want to talk about .. Hips.
So you guys are good, your hips are nice and
close together. If you photograph couples
you know that t
hey sometimes do the 8th grade dance thing.
Right?
So if you guys do that. Pretend you don't
know that.
A lot of times we tell them to get nice and
close and they do that. And their hips are
not touching. So you want to make sure
when posing to pay attention
to where the hips are.
If its not a bride and groom,
then their hips
probably shouldn't be facing each other
but they should be still be touching just turned
out a little bit.
But you guys are a bride and groom, they are
married, so we are going to get you guys
nice and close together. Hips together, watching
the height.
And then finally we want to talk about the hands.
Hands, Sue Bryce says are the fine tuning
of photographers and you can always tell
an experienced photographer as
as opposed to an unexperienced photographer
with how they pose the hands.
When it comes to wedding photography,
I always say hands should be
anywhere on each other.
It just shows connection, it shows warmth.
So I like what you guys are doing.
I'm going to change it just a little bit.
Your hand, Abigail, is going
to come in right here.
The reason I'm doing that is,
if she holds her hand here
I just see the back of her hand
and that's going to make it look larger than
it is
but if I go here, she's nice and kind of
cuddled in there.
I'm only showing the side of her hand
which is going to make it appear
a little bit more dainty
and a little bit more slender.
I do love how you have your hands on her hips.
That would be a perfect option
but another thing I like to do with hands
is to have you put your hands on her back
or shoulder here.
Again, that's pulling them closer.
They're coming closer together,
it creates a little bit more of
a connection and,
as this is not the case with Abigail,
if you want to slim down a bride
you can kind of cover a little bit with
hands. That helps out too.
Love this.
Let's take a picture.
So the first thing I want to do is get
my exposure which,
if you've seen me teach before,
do in a little bit of a weird way.
I turn on my live-view and just get
a basic exposure looking at the live
view and eyeballing where
I think the exposure should be.
So right now I'm at 100 ISO, 250 on my shutter
and 2.5 on my aperture.
I'm using a Canon 1DX.
First model, not the second.
I do want the second.
Along with the 135mm Canon 2.0 lens.
Let's see how this looks.
So you guys get nice and close together there.
Love the nose-to-nose.
Abigail turn and look towards me.
I can easily get some
really cute close-ups of their hands
since they look so nice and close.
Perfect.
Both you guys just go cheek to cheek
and look at me.
There's one thing I do want to fix and
it goes along the hips category.
Their hips are nice and close but
I want them to not be in the same
static direction.
So what I'll have you do,
both of you tilt your shoulders
towards me a little bit more.
Andy, you can come back
a little bit this way so you're still in towards
her.
Abigail almost like you're trying
to look towards that building.
Get your heads nice and close together.
That looks much better.
Then go ahead and look at each other.
Then just touch foreheads.
We've got some great usable shots
looking at all those little details.
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