If you are interested in portrait photography, one of the hard parts (after learning your lighting and camera skills) is knowing how to pose your models. Particularly, if they aren’t professional models.
When you are taking portraits of men and women, their poses can be quite different because their bodies have different shapes and bend in slightly different ways. A pose that looks great for a guy, may look totally wrong for a girl and vice-versa.
So, to help you on your way to achieving better portraits by getting better poses from your models, I have compiled some videos for you to take a look at.
If, however, you don’t like to watch videos, you can grab yourself the dPS e-books, Portraits: Striking The Pose or 67 Portrait Poses (Printable).
Alternatively, see the list of articles you can read on posing models down below the videos.
Tips for posing men in portrait photography
This video is by photographer, Anita Sadowska.
This video is by photographer, Julia Trotti.
This video is from the perspective of a model agency, DLM Model Lifestyle, giving posing tips.
Tips for posing women in portrait photography
This video is by CreativeLive, featuring photographer, Lindsay Adler. These tips are for photographing people in a seated position.
This video by AtchatChannel Ubonratchathani, gives 60 model poses in 1 minute.
You may also like:
- 8 Posing Guides to Inspire Your Portraiture
- Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Women – Part I
- Posing Guide for Photographing Women: 7 Poses to Get You 21 Different Photos
- Tips for Posing People in Outdoor Portraits
- How to do Gentle Posing: A Collection of Prompts to Get You Started
- Tips for Posing Muscular Female Body Types
- Portrait Tips for Posing Women
- Beginner Tips for Posing People with Confidence
