female model posing tips – learn how to pose a women

Female model posing tips

learn how to pose a women with no modelling experience

In this video we are exploring few posing tips for women. there are thousands of books and guides out there showing hundreds of different poses, however if you understand the basic principles and have a methodology in place, you will never run out of poses and you will be able to get any women in front of your camera to act like a model.

Posing and modelling can be learned like anything else is life and with a little bit of practice, within on or 2 sessions, you should be able to have the confidence to get any model to pose to her best

The video shows few tips how to position the head, shoulders, hips, legs and hands as the parts of a nice composition. The combinations are endless and if you understand the basic principles you will have an unlimited source of inspiration. here are few tips:

The head

– always have the head with chin rotates to one side, avoid the front millitary position facing the camera directly. You can even ask the model to turn her back completely and look back over her shoulders

Shoulders and hips

– try to get the shoulders an uneven levels off the ground. One shoulder up an done down. Same story with the hips, the shoulder line and the hips line should converge. Having this position will force the model to get into a “S” shape which is the best way to go. try to look for the “S” and will will get somewhere

Legs

– try to get the model to either cross the legs, or turn one leg to one side and have the weight moved on the other. This way the “S” shape is created as well

Arms and hands

– try to have hands at different levels in an “S” shape like position, never too straight and have the palms flexed at 90 degrees form the arms facing down or up. Palms need to be relaxed at all times for a natural position and they should be a different levels

Recommendation:

once you achieve a “S” shape pose composed of shoulders, hips and legs, try to combine hands position as per the video above. The poses are unlimited see below just a few samples. As a photographer you should train few times to understand these principles, apply them few times with women who never posed, challenge yourself and you will get better with practice

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Veronica

Posted December 21, 2013 at 3:04 PM

Christian,

how do you make the background look completely white with no wrinkles on the fabric? Can you achieve that with one or two lights? What’s the power of lights and flash?

Thanks you!


Christian Tudor

Posted December 21, 2013 at 10:33 PM

Veronica
that is why I use the background lights, to overexpose the background. Sometimes I do it in post production in Light room, but you do need the 4 lights for this. you cannot do it with 2 lights only, as it might take you more effort to do it on the computer

Posted December 22, 2013 at 1:16 AM

I see. What exactlyyou do in light room?

Thank you, Christian.


Christian Tudor

Posted December 22, 2013 at 1:38 AM

I use a brush to overexpose manually bits that are still showing wrinkles behind.

Posted December 22, 2013 at 4:02 AM

thank you!

Derek Cummings

Posted January 16, 2014 at 11:53 PM

Many thanks for this Christian. You have explained how to pose a woman really well. The best tutor I have come across for this, so far hard to do subject for me. The next few days I will be spending in front of my white background and flash posing myself in the hope, soon, I can take your advice and ask a woman to pose for me that has never done it before. Again. Very many thanks from a grateful amateur photographer..

bean

Posted February 9, 2014 at 7:58 AM

Well I watch this video and least once a month, I love this video…….I think besides lighting posing is the 2nd hardest thing to do when you are new and this video I did apply to a shoot I did for a young lady who needed a promotional piece and she loved them of course I was in a panic on the inside because she didn’t know I didn’t have a clue but it looked like I did because of your video lol so I thank you……and now she is telling her friends about the great experience she had with me….but that was only due to you so thank you