You said food, on three you're gonna say
your favorite food, on three you're gonna
say your favorite food, how long you been
dating?
Oh you better get this dude!
In part two of the foundation posing crash
course I'm gonna now demonstrate how we
can quickly get to 20-plus different
poses by using this system of posing for
couples.
Let's dive in - my name is Pye
and I'm one of the founders of Lin and
Jirsa photography, and SLRlounge.com
We're teaming up with Adorama to bring
you a new series of photography
tutorials called Master Your Craft right
here on Adorama TV, so let's dive in, so in
the last video we just covered the five
foundation poses, and if you don't know
them yet, be sure to check out that video
where we cover the foundation posing
framework, now from this point, this is
what I want to say, with each of the
poses that you put your couple into,
slow it down a little bit, slow it down
and work that specific position, that
specific pose by thinking of, well
there's four primary different ways that
we can sort of interact with the camera,
in addition we also can cue our subjects
and direct them into different
expressions and emotions.
let me go through what each of these are
now, so I'm gonna go ahead,
I have Jeff and Naomi again, they're
gonna help me out,
I'm gonna have you guys go into a V up,
so this is our V up right,
so think of this where they're looking in
the camera as kind of your first look,
your first pose, with every shot we have
another variation, so for example now I
want Jeff - you to look at Naomi,
and now Naomi I want you to look at Jeff,
and now Jeff I want you to look in the camera.
Perfect, so for each one of these shots,
for every pose we have four basic
variations, just on eye positioning we
have him looking at her, her looking at him,
both them into the camera, and both into
each other.
Now from there I can not only
use those different eye positions,
but then I can give them a cue okay...
so Naomi I want you to look towards me
and Jeff, I want you to look at Naomi, and
from here I'm gonna say Jeff whispers
something that gets Naomi laughing,
anything Naomi, do you dare saying what
he just said, she doesn't dare say what
he just said - that's fine,
we're not gonna force them, but that's
the last step, which is once we choose
kind of that eye position, we're gonna
then give them a cue, give them a piece
of Direction, give them something to do
for the shot.
There's tons of different games you can
play on this, there's lots of different ideas here.
But let's go through now,
those poses and just show
you those iterations.
So now guys I want you guys to hold
hands in the center, and
go into an open pose, perfect,
so from that open pose, this time I'm
gonna go back to a full length shot.
I want you guys to both look into the
camera, so we have this nice whimsical
shot, perfect, just like that,
Naomi, go ahead, and kick
the hip a little bit, there you go,
dropping the knee across, perfect, just like
that now, full smiles now, look toward
each other guys, now, now let me, look
towards me.
Now Jeff, look towards me,
and Naomi look toward Jeff, perfect now from there
you're gonna stay in the open pose, but
just close the distance between you,
perfect, now Naomi all your gonna do is
hug onto his arm with both hands, I love
that, just like that, Jeff look towards
Naomi, beautiful, okay, now Naomi I want
you to look up into the camera, and brush
your hair back on that side, and on three
you're gonna, Jeff keep looking at her,
Naomi you're gonna think about what Jeff
just said to you, so on three, one, two
three, and then you're gonna say what he
said, I'm just kidding don't, don't do
that okay.
So obviously the first cue is
kind of a like okay whatever, the second
one is the one to kind of get her to a
emote and to get her to respond,
and we get these really cute like laughing
shots, where she's kind of covering up
and, and they look really great, and
authentic now, let's put them in a
different one, so now let's go to the
reverse pose guys.
Jeff you're gonna face away now,
Naomi, want you to face towards
him, and I'm gonna have you looking at
the camera, and Jeff you're gonna focus
on Naomi, beautiful, just like that Naomi,
look down, and toward the shoulder,
beautiful, perfect, I love that, now Naomi
look at Jeff, lean away from him a
little bit, so I can see both your faces,
that's it, stay a little bit closer, with
the hips, perfect, just like that,
beautiful, now from there Jeff, hold her
from across the hip, so with that left
hand bring that left hand across the hip,
hold it right there, and kind of turn
towards her and lean her back just a
little bit, perfect, just like that.
I love that, all right, so we did closed,
we did open, let's go ahead and do a
stack shot, so Jeff stack behind her, I
just want to get a nice like portrait
shot for your family, so go ahead and
hold hands on this side.
I want you guys to both look into the
camera right here,
beautiful, just like that, Naomi
hold the dress with your right hand,
that's it, both you guys looking at the
camera, smile a little bit,
and Naomi, tilt the head in to Jeff a
little bit, there, perfect.
Now Jeff look towards Naomi, beautiful
I'm gonna come in close for that one.
I love that, Naomi look toward Jeff,
okay now if this looks awkward you got to change
your position a little bit, just so.
We're not shooting up her nostrils, so one of
the my favorite things are doing this
instead of making them look at each
other from this pose, is Naomi, just
look down to your left shoulder, there
you go, right there, and kind of bring the
eyes down, smile, perfect, just like that.
Jeff... how much you got in the bank dude?
Whisper one more thing...
what else you got guys,
go into the closed pose now,
face each other, and I love this,
because we're gonna kind of get in close,
I'm gonna shoot the shadows kind of
behind, so now touch foreheads, there
you go, beautiful, just like that.
I love that, fantastic,
that's absolute gorgeous,
I love going in, you can see that light right
on her there, smile a little bit, laugh with
that a little bit, there you go, now Naomi,
turn the chin down towards my side,
perfect, right there, and look kind of
right towards me, smile, with that
beautiful, and then I want you to both
look at each other, so lean back from
each other, right there, beautiful just
like that, hold that, I'm gonna go ahead
and get a wider shot,
you have it like a favorite car,
you have a favorite something okay,
what was something are you thinking of,
don't name what it is, but just a favorite
something, a favorite food, that's great.
Okay guys go into an open pose, I'm gonna
flip onto a 24 cuz, I want to get this
like a into action kind of shot, so I
want it to be up close, I want to see the
background behind them, I'm gonna shoot
on the 24 all right?
So from this open pose,
I'm gonna have you hug on to his
arm, perfect, just like that, okay,
I'm gonna go ahead, and get my settings
dialed in here, and you know what, let's
switch our direction just a little bit.
So I'm gonna put you guys like right
here, shoot with a little more of a soft
sunlight kind of vibe, there you go,
perfect, so you're in an open pose, you
said food on three, you're gonna say your
favorite food on three, you're gonna say
your favorite food, how long you been
dating.... 6 years.....
You better get this dude, if you
don't get this we're in trouble here.
I'm already shooting by the way, okay
ready, one, two, three... icecream / chocolate
Oh my goodness how
is that possible?
So look what we've done here,
in this process is we've helped them to
not only kind of feel comfortable
in front of the camera but
we've created a common dialogue.
I can now be on my side of the
camera, and direct them into whatever
pose, whatever thing I want,
then you'll notice we would set them into
a pose and then we would give them a
cue for that.
Last one we just kind of gave them a
little game to play, and it's one that
we'll commonly do with different things.
We'll ask what their favorite thing is,
and just kind of play a fun game.
Once we do that, then we get to these
beautifully authentic expressions,
and these fun images, and this is how we
can take any client who says I'm not good
in front of a camera.
We say you know what - don't worry!
That's our job, we're gonna help
direct, we're to help guide you, pose you,
cue you, and get those authentic images,
because you know what, every one of our
clients before you, have said the exact
same thing.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video,
if you did please subscribe to the
channel, you guys can also follow us at
SLRLounge you can follow me @Pyejirsa,
and also check this out, we have the most
extensive library, this was just a small
snippet of SLR workshops premium
education, it's an A to Z guide for literally
everything portrait and wedding photography,
from learning the camera to
shooting, to lighting, to compositions, to
posing, directing, to weddings themselves.
It's all there, so be sure to check that
out as well, and I'll see you guys in the
next video.
Bye.