Best photoshoot posing tips ever!!

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General facts that will help you better pose a person and understand why some poses work:

1. Things that are closer to the camera look bigger
2. Things that are further from the camera look smaller
3. A longer lens flattens depth (for example, a big nose looks smaller at 120mm than it looks at 50mm)
4. A short lens makes the face rounder and “puffier”
5. Things pointed directly at the camera look shorter (foreshortening)

The Face

The Jaw Line

Is a critical measurement of perceived manliness. Your job as a photographer is to make sure the jawline is well defined and as angular and sharp as possible.

Ask the subject to push their chin out and a little bit down. This will gently stretch the neck while hiding part of the neck from the camera.

You can further refine the jawline by clever use of shadow and by making sure the jawline doesn’t blend into the neck.

And never, and I mean NEVER, let your subject pull his chin back. This will not only accentuate any existing double chin but also create one where one wasn’t there to begin with.

Eyes

Big round puppy eyes do not look good on men. They evoke fear and confusion. Ask you subject to do what Peter Hurley calls a “squinch”.

It is a half squint, where the lower eye lids raise a bit to narrow the eyes while the upper eye lids don’t move much or at all.

This will make your subject look like “he is up to something”, adding a bit of mischievousness, playfulness and character to the image.

Head tilt (note this is about tilt, not turn)

Never let a man tilt his head towards the camera. That is a cutesy feminine pose and even the most interesting man in the world would lose his man card posing like that. Either keep the head neutral or tilt slightly away from the camera.

Be mindful that tilting too much away from the camera can be perceived as being rather arrogant and a bit aggressive.

Quick pro tips:

1. A lot of people have one eye smaller than the other (you would be surprised once you start paying attention). You can choose to ignore this or, if you think you want to do something about it, pose the smaller eye closer to the camera (see general fact 1, listed above).
2. When dealing with a heavy blinker, ask your subject to close his eyes and open them on three. You should be able to get at least a few frames with no blinking right after the subject opens his eyes.
3. If the double chin is a bit too much to handle just by pushing the chin out and down, you can try blocking it out of the view by posing the subjects’ hand in such a way that it obstructs a direct view of the double chin (chin resting on fist, fist to the side of neck, etc).
4. If someone has a big nose, use a longer lens and shoot the face straight (no head turn) (general fact 3 & 5). Foreshortening and optics would come to the rescue.
5. Puffy faces look skinnier when using a longer lens (general fact 3).
6. If your subject has a big forehead or is balding, shooting from a lower angle will help alleviate the problem (general fact 2)
7. If the person gets tired and has droopy eyes, shooting from a higher angle would force them to look up into your camera, thus forcing the eyes to open a bit more.

The Body

The ideal male body form is a V shape: broad shoulders, thin waist. Here are some tips for accentuating and defining the V shape with proper male body posing.

Shoulders

Shoulders should look as broad as possible. It follows that, you may want as much as you can to square the shoulders towards the camera and if possible leaning a bit towards the camera (general fact 1 and making sure general fact 5 is not coming into play).

Waist

The waist will look slimmer if the lower body does not exactly square the camera. Also, keeping the upper body closer to the camera will make the waist seem slimmer (general fact 1, 2 and 5)

Posture

Good posture is key for a good male portrait. Make sure your subject is standing tall, with shoulders up yet relaxed 

Hands

Men don’t do very well with their hands when they have nothing to do with them. You need to keep your subject’s hands busy. You need to give a man’s hand a reason for being where it is.

Otherwise most men will feel it looks stupid and then get uncomfortable. Here are a few ways to take care of this problem:

• hands in pockets, either thumb in (GQ style) or palm in and thumb hooked on the pocket
• hands hooked in belt loops or one hand hooked on the belt buckle
• one hand loosely to the side, one hand in pocket
• arms crossed on chest with shoulders a bit down (relaxed shoulders)
• holding newspaper with one hand
• fixing tie with one hand
• fixing cufflinks
• hands on football, guitar or other prop that your male subject may have brought with him
• one hand in pocket, the other hooked on a jacket thrown over the shoulder