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Posing Guide for Photographing Women: 7 More Poses to Get You 21 Different Photos [Part III] A post by Kaspars Grinvalds from Posing App.

Posing Guide for Photographing Women: 7 More Poses to Get You 21 Different Photos [Part III]

This is the third article in the series. You may want to look at the previous ones here: 7 standing poses [Part I] and 7 sitting poses [Part II]. Let’s move on with 7 lying down poses for women. And again I’ll briefly try to describe the process, how I tried to slightly adjust these poses in order to get three different photos for each pose. Pose 1 Very simple pose to start with. Photo 1: The first picture is the result of recreating this simple pose. Photo 2: With such a basic pose as this one, you always have different options to variate – different hand placements, head tilts, eye directions and face expressions.

Photo 3: And I continued by asking the model to lower down even more. Pose 2 Very similar pose as the first one, but this angle is better for including longer model’s body line in the frame. These 22 Photos Will Make You Fall In Love With Foxes. Owing to its beautiful coat and bushy tail, which can be fiery red, steely gray or snow-white, the fox has held a special place in our hearts since time immemorial as a beautiful and mysterious woodland creature.

These 22 Photos Will Make You Fall In Love With Foxes

These 22 pictures will make you fall in love with the fox all over again. The common red woodland fox that most of us know certainly is beautiful, but this cunning creature has managed to adapt to diverse climates throughout the world – the fennec fox of the Sahara desert and kit fox in the southwest U.S. both sport larger ears that help them stay cool in the desert, while the arctic fox has a thick and snow-white insulated coat and small ears that help it retain its body heat. The fox is a member of the canidae family, which also includes dogs, wolves and other similar animals. After 50 years of breeding experimentation in the Soviet Union, they’ve also provided us with extraordinary insight into the domestication process. Image credits: Roeselien Raimond Image credits: Dan Dinu. 25 Breathtaking Examples of Nature Photography.

Digital-photography-school. 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits. How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor?

10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits

Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules – but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules. I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography. I’ll share ten of these tips today and a further ten tomorrow (update: you can see the 2nd part here). 1.

Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. Get up high and shoot down on your subject or get as close to the ground as you can and shoot up. 2. It is amazing how much the direction of your subject’s eyes can impact an image. A. B. 3. 4. Using techniques like slow synch flash can create an impressive wow factor. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Women – Part I. This is the first in a series of Posing Guide posts by Kaspars Grinvalds from Posing App See below for links to the full series of posing guides including for kids, men, couples, weddings and more.

Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Women – Part I

Check out our new Portrait Posing eBook and Portrait Posing Printables for more advice and posing ideas. If you ever run out of ideas, get stuck in creativity or simply need some guidance when shooting female subjects, you may use following posing samples as a “posing cheat sheet”. Many pro photographers use such a technique when preparing for and during the photo shoot. The poses in this article are selected as initial reference. I would advise to look at the poses together with your subject, especially if she’s inexperienced. OK, let’s start, one by one. Digital-photography-school. A post by Kaspars Grinvalds from Posing App.

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If you haven’t read the first article in this series, I would kindly recommend you to start with Posing Guide for Photographing Women: 7 Poses to Get You 21 Different Photos – Part I where we started with 7 standing poses. Let’s continue this time with 7 sitting poses for female subjects and their possible variations in order to get at least three different shots for each pose. Pose 1 Nice and simple pose to start with.

Ask your model to sit comfortably with knees placed together. Photo 1 – This basic starting point provides you with many different choices to continue with. Photo 2 – After I got the first shot similar to the sample, I asked the model to lower both arms and rest them on the knees. Photo 3 – And finally I returned to the initial pose and took a close-up portrait shot.