Posing
Birthday photoshoot poses
Birthday sessions run on energy rather than technique. The job is to keep moving and shoot through the moments rather than arranging them.
Posing
Birthday sessions run on energy rather than technique. The job is to keep moving and shoot through the moments rather than arranging them.
In short: Birthday sessions run on energy rather than technique. The job is to keep moving and shoot through the moments rather than arranging them.
Blowing out candles, opening something, reacting. Shot in bursts through the action, never staged afterwards.
Solves the hands, lowers the shoulders, and produces a relaxed full length.
The single most reliable movement frame there is.
Some seated, some standing, nobody in a line. A row of people facing the lens is a school photograph.
Sixty seconds of the session spent on one clean frame of your face.
Camera at table height, cake in the foreground softly out of focus, you sharp behind it.
Start with laughing mid-action — the first two minutes are warm-up and the first pose should be the one that asks least of anyone. Move to seated on a step, drink in hand and walking away, glancing back once the shoulders have dropped, and keep with the cake, from the side for the end, when self-consciousness has gone. Shoot each one in bursts through the movement rather than holding it: the usable frames sit between the instructions, not on them.
Two metres back with the lens zoomed rather than close and wide — distance is what keeps facial proportions natural. Camera at or slightly above eye level for portraits, at chest height for full length. Below eye level enlarges whatever is nearest the lens, which is rarely what you want in frame.
Everyone holding a glass up towards the lens, and the jumping shot. Both are instructions rather than moments and they photograph as such.