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Digital Wedding Photography For Dummies
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Digital Wedding Photography For Dummies

by Amber Murphy
April 2013
Beginner
320 pages
8h 37m
English
For Dummies
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Handling Stiffness and Stress during Portraits

Portraits are an important and time-consuming part of the wedding day, and you and the couple may have trouble relaxing. The following tips can help you reduce awkwardness or tension so that your photos capture the joy and love in a natural, beautiful way.

Guiding subjects through natural portraits

If you’ve ever had your picture taken, which I’m assuming you have, you’ve probably been in a situation where you had to hold an awkward pose for what seemed like an eternity or had to smile for so long that your cheeks started to hurt. Not only did you feel uncomfortable while getting your picture taken, but you also probably groaned when you saw the picture. Why? Because it didn’t look natural!

Some of the difficulty with portraits lies in posing. How do you create a certain look in your photographs without your subjects looking stiff? Consider the following tips to getting portraits that you and your clients love:

check.png Look to print pros. Magazines can be a fantastic source of inspiration when you’re coming up with natural poses you want to incorporate into the portrait segment of the wedding day. Not only are a plethora of wedding magazines available (which can give you ideas for everything from bridal portraits to how to arrange a wedding party), but you can also consult fashion magazines for both men and women and find natural poses that ...

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