Portraits for Larger People...

[CronoZero]

Hello everyone!

I wanted to know if anyone had any advice for taking photos of larger people...a few of my friends aren't the skinniest folks in the world, and it's harder for me to take a good picture/portrait of them since I don't have too much experience with portraiture in general.

Does anyone have any advice on posing, camera placement, or lighting?

Thanks!

Aaron

[zespri]

I bet you'll get heaps of advice on this one, the topic has come up a few times in the past

• Taking photos from above is a good one for getting rid of double chins - so they are looking up at the camera.
• Don't have them standing straight on, or they'll look like a sumo wrestler. One shoulder & foot SLIGHTLY further forward than the other can narrow them out a bit.
• Also while this advice can be difficult to follow, not having arms too close to the body helps.
• How they are dressed plays a big part too. If they are kinda bumpy, no sleeveless, plunging tops.
• Another flattering angle is to have someone lay on their tummy, that way most of their body is in the background.

I'm looking forward to seeing any other advice, this can be a fiddly one to navigate

[CronoZero]

Mmm, mm, good advice so far, I had been trying the slightly raised angle for a bit.

I was actually kinda surprised a topic like this wasn't stickied...Quite a few threads I saw seemed to discuss this topic but didn't have all the info in one place.

Anyone else have other suggestions?

[zespri]

I just re-found this thread, might have some ideas in there. I agree, it would be a good sticky topic, there are lots of us squishy people out there, it's got to be a hot topic