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How should photographers pose subjects verbally? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Elegant_Sloth@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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When you're photographing someone or a team for business purposes, how do you interact with them? Do you spend time trying to put them at ease, ask how they want to be portrayed, or just say "stand here, lean back, look here. YES YOU'RE KILLING IT!"? I got professional headshots done by my company with some team photos and I hate how I look in all of them. The headshots I though would be chest up so I didn't pose my lower half or I was told to pose a certain way and it looks awful. I've seen the other's photos and they look natural and relaxed. I look awkward and rigid. The photographer said maybe 4 sentences in all 5 photos for how I should stand and none look good. I've never had photos taken of me outside of school pictures and I really tried with posing tutorials beforehand so I was excited. Was this the norm for team type shoots or do others do this differently? What could I have done differently as a subject to get the most out of a rushed session?

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[–] SLPERAS@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you noticed that you look relaxed and natural in the mirror but rigid in your photos? If the other photos looks natural and yours is not, it’s nothing to do with your photos. That’s how you look all the time. You are used to seeing other people in real life and when you see their photo it looks natural, and other people see you all the time like you are on the photo. Ask them if you look natural or awkward.

People looks really good to themselves in the mirror but that’s not how they look in real life. It’s the same if you record your voice and hear it back. You’ll just have to learn to get over it.

[–] Elegant_Sloth@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks, good point. I hadn't thought of it like that. I've been trying for the past year to get used to seeing myself in pictures by taking them of myself and posing. It's more like everyone else's look relaxed but well staged as they have pretty much the same poses or characteristics whereas mine obviously missed something. Poor head or shoulder angles compared to others which they were told to change but I wasn't etc.