August 2006
Beginner
336 pages
10h 55m
English
Content preview from Digital Wedding Photography: Capturing Beautiful Memories
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Chapter 5 ✦ Composing Your Art
Natural Posing
Every photographer has experienced the gruesome distorted face of a child who has just been told to
smile. Yikes! Sometimes the groom is almost as bad. Maybe the last time he was in front of a professional
photographer was way back when he was a ring bearer and somehow he still remembers how to do it.
Most of the clients we work with in the wedding business do not have any experience at modeling. In
fact, it seems far more normal to find subjects that are shy, insecure about their appearance, and gener-
ally uncomfortable in front of the camera — at least for the first hour. If you have a friendly personality
that helps people feel at ease, most of the normal fears will disappear quickly. However finding someone
who completely loosens up and acts naturally when you raise your camera is rare. The worst thing you
can do to a camera-shy couple is to give many specific directions about how to smile and how to hold
their body. The more you do this, the more likely you are to get the same results as the child who has
just been told to smile — he or she gets stiffer and stiffer.
Getting over the camera-shy stage takes some time. I like to start the wedding day shooting in the dress-
ing rooms, because it gives me a chance to bond with the clients and for them to get comfortable being in
front of the camera. During this time, I start creating a few directed ...
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