Posing
Couple photoshoot poses
Pose the situation, not the bodies. Six arrangements cover nearly every couple session, and each is built to be moved through rather than held.
Posing
Pose the situation, not the bodies. Six arrangements cover nearly every couple session, and each is built to be moved through rather than held.
In short: Pose the situation, not the bodies. Six arrangements cover nearly every couple session, and each is built to be moved through rather than held.
The workhorse. Shot in bursts, from front and behind.
Intimate without a kiss, and it solves what to do with faces.
Puts both faces in the same focal plane and gives a height difference somewhere to go.
Steps, a wall, a bench. Sitting removes standing stiffness.
One says something quiet, the other reacts. Real laughter follows within seconds.
Fingers interlaced on a coat or around a cup. Every gallery needs two or three of these.
Start with walking, hands joined — the first two minutes are warm-up and the first pose should be the one that asks least of anyone. Move to forehead to forehead and one behind the other, arms around once the shoulders have dropped, and keep hands, cropped close 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.
The dip kiss, the piggyback and the jumping shot. Each appears in every gallery and each reads as an instruction rather than a moment.