15. Posing with Movement, Feeling, and Expression
This chapter is about putting the finishing touches on a pose. Without the material covered in this chapter, the people you pose run the risk of looking rigid, forced, and worst of all, unnatural. I place photographs in which the photographer intervened to pose his/her subjects in three main categories:
• Portraits in which the subjects are looking straight at the camera
• Portraits in which the photographer attempts to create a “photojournalistic” moment but fails to create a natural look and the subjects appear to be just following the photographer’s directions
• Portraits in which the photographer creates a portrait that appears so natural that you totally connect with the moment without seeing ...
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