Picture Perfect Posing: Practicing the Art of Posing for Photographers and Models

16. Posing Couples with the Picture Perfect Posing System

In my previous book, Picture Perfect Practice, I wrote a brief explanation of each of the combinations in the couples posing chart. But for this book, the intricacies of posing couples will be approached from the Picture Perfect Posing System (P3S) taught in the previous chapters of this book. Fortunately, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel when posing couples. You just apply the P3S to two people instead of one. Doing so will steer you 80 percent of the way to a great pose, with a few tweaks for fine-tuning. The other 20 percent is how you manage the couple’s expressions, interaction, and energy. The energy that one person emits must be matched by the other. In other words, energy ...