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Anyone with a camera knows how to take portraits. You just ask a model to look at the camera and press a shutter button. But you need much more than that in order to get high-quality portraits as a professional takes. When a camera, exposure and lightening are ready, you only have to work on exposure and a model’s pose to achieve the best result.

In this guide you will find all successful poses for a photo session to transform your portraits into works of art. In order to shoot like a professional, you should not only be able to photograph and stylize your photo session, but also to add a little creativity to the process and to work with the model. And our poses for a photo session will help you with it!

 

 

Work with the model during a photo session to obtain a good eye contact and a friendly smile. Try to throw a hand behind your head - this will help to stretch out the stomach. If you bend a knee a little, this can add bends to the body. We used the 24-105 lens for all our portraits, but in fact any standard lens will be suitable.

 

 

Seating pose for a photo session

You have to make contact with your model during shooting in order to get the best result from her/him. Good mutual understanding between people is the fastest way to obtain a better pose and facial expression of the model and to get a professional portrait. Do not expect perfect shots right away. You should not be disappointed if first shots do not look like you expected. Slowly build your contact, relax and enjoy the process, you may have a little drink. The model’s mood depends on yours. You can show received frames to the model in order to improve needed poses in the photo session, and soon you will get a desired result.

 

 

Your arms should be relaxed! If the model sits down and faces the back of a chair, then a pose will look more dynamic. If the legs are standing on fingertips, it emphasizes muscles of shins and thighs.

 

 

Poses to photograph from the top and from the bottom

In order to photograph a model from the bottom or from the top (as it is shown in the examples below), you will need very high ceilings and tall stands to take such portraits in the studio. Or use a flash and shoot on the street using the sky as a beautiful background of a portrait.

It is also very important to keep the studio perfectly clean because if you're taking portraits in full growth and the model's legs are shown in a frame, and a floor and background are not perfectly clean, then you'll spend a lot of time cleaning dirty marks in Photoshop after the shooting.

Ask the model to turn around and look at you over her/his shoulder. Shooting up from the bottom makes the model’s legs longer. If the model looks down at you from the top, it will create a more imperious and stronger image.

 

 

Use a ladder to get above the model to shoot more creative portraits. If the model looks up a little bit, it makes an image meeker and more innocent. A choice of clothing and footwear can play a very important role in the shooting process.

 

 

Facial expression

If you photograph at home or in a professional studio, why not try to take portraits and display them directly on the computer screen. We used utilities and connected our camera to the computer via USB, which had been sold with the camera. Such shooting allows you to see frames at once on a big screen and immediately understand what to change in order to improve them: move closer the lights, tilt them up or down, add a reflector or change the exposure to a lighter or darker one. Indeed this kind of shooting provides more accurate instructions to the model while showing received frames on the screen. I hope you enjoyed this article about ideas for a photo session.

 

 

Source: www.photo-cribs.com