HOW TO POSE IN PHOTOS – 9 Tricks Pros Use to Look Perfect!
– It is all good and great people telling you to
feel great about yourself and be confident, and just
get to used to who you are and all the body positivity stuff. Sure, that's really great. But the problem is you
stand in front of the mirror and think you look great,
but then you go out later on and someone takes a photo of you and you look like a disaster.
That is not what you certainly look like. You thought you were slaying life, you thought you looked damn good. You start thinking to yourself, am I delusional for thinking I look good, what is wrong with me,
damn I must be ugly, but honey it's most likely the fact that you just don't know
how to pose properly and there are some tricks that
models have up their sleeves that make them look so good. So, without further ado. (snapping) Dogs! If I have to have a shitty background, I'm gonna pick myself out.
At least you aren't distracted by that. Let's get into the video. This video is gonna be
the most comprehensive analysis and tutorial on how to pose. I'm gonna teach you
all the tricks and tips you need to know for a good pose so you no longer have to
feel crap about yourself. Because we all know that
when you feel great, you do great work and
you can slay the world. (dance music) Start at your core so you first and foremost
need to engage your core because when you're slouching,
it doesn't look good honey. Engage your tummy muscles
so you are making abs even if you don't have abs.
And pull your shoulders back
and try to them look relaxed not like crazy back, just back enough so that your posture looks great, and you look powerful and confident. (bass heavy music) Separate your limbs from your body. You don't want to become
like a little log, you have arms for a reason so
separate them from your body and also on that note, squishing
anything against your body is going to make it look bigger so lift your arms away from your body. That also go for your
legs when you're sitting. Try to lift them off the surface so you're not squishing your legs down and making them appear larger. Usually 45 degree angle for anybody looks great because
you're not just square on, you're turning your body just a little bit which is what we want.
We want to give the impression of angles. For some girls it does
look good straight on, but you really have to figure out if that works good for your body. If not, safely just look
at 45 degree angles. Sitting poses are all about angles. Angles, angles, angles. Here are some examples
of what looks great. Everything is separate
from from each other, very interesting shapes done
with legs and arms and so forth (bass heavy music) One leg in front of the other,
always a good way to go. One arm in the front of the other, always a nice little touch,
just as with the sitting poses: create angles with your body. Legs, arms, sit into your hips, so put all your weight into one leg and push your hip out a little bit, it gives the impression of fake curves. It's amazing. Photographs of women
are generally all about creating those curves so curve it up, show off those curves, even
if you don't have any like me.
All of the same principles apply, leg forward, create expressions,
and take a lot of snaps because quite often one girl doesn't look good 'cause
she was blinking or so forth so take a lot of snaps. Make sure that everyone is
happy with the photograph. But honestly group photos like this still make me the happiest. So don't forget, like get
the professional photo if you want to, but then take a selfie just for your personal storage
and embrace the moment. Show off the energy of the
moment, the love that was shared. Our life is not Instagram, our
life is not posed photographs so make sure you're still real. (bass heavy music) Very often, once the camera
starts snapping, we freak out. So having a go-to facial expression prevents that from happening. Figuring it out beforehand with selfies helps you figure out
what looks best on you. Which side of your face you like more, what facial expressions you like more. Memorizing facial expressions
so when the camera's on you can bring it. What is your favorite side of the face. Certain models love a
certain side of their face.
These are examples of professional models that quite often just see
one side of their face on all of their photos. For a lot of us, it's
straight onto the camera and choosing either
one or the second side. For me, I don't like this side. I always generally turn about 45 degrees or straight on. Not everybody has a side of
their face they love more, so if you're one of those
people that loves both sides: congratulations. This can be done through
sitting really close to a window which is what I'm doing right now. All of that beautiful light coming my way. Or if you're outside
and the sun is shining, tilt your head up so you
are right in that sun. Try to avoid harsh shadows on your face, specifically dark bags under the eyes. Not so good. This sucks, but it works. So start ridiculously
laughing and being a twat and then you will break
out into a real laugh and it's hilarious.
(bass heavy music) Chin forward and down. I don't know why, but it works. For straight on photos, it works a treat. What Winnie Harlow is doing
here, chin forward down, and she's piercing the camera. She's like looking straight
through the camera, squinting her eyes just a little bit. And as Tyra Banks says,
"Smile with those eyes." (bass heavy music) I am guilty of this one, you
have relax your lips open just a little bit. Relaxing your lips open makes
you look more comfortable because I grind my teeth. I am like always clenched and
it doesn't look good on photos Relax your lips just a tiny little bit. So whenever you're talking to someone, you are like engaged and
your head is shifting, you never sit there like this
because that's really awkward and something's not right if you do that. Same with photographs so you
can tilt your head forward, back, sideways, a little bit, just figure out what
looks good on you and then work with that. (bass heavy music) Laughing too much actually
doesn't look good on photos because you are like generally
in a very heavy laughter like hahaha! Doesn't translate very well.
What you can do is
still do your fake laugh which will translate into real laughter. Laugh like crazy, and when
you're laughing like crazy ask someone to just snap
a lot of photos of you and there'll be one in there
that looks really good, that isn't like the extreme
smile, but the smallest smile. And while we're on the topic of smiling, fake smiling just doesn't look good. Like it's very ugly (mumbles). (laughing) Deer in the headlights look doesn't look good. So relax your eyes a little bit. (bass heavy music) You need to work with
what your momma gave you because there is absolutely
no purpose or reason to look at the other side and think the grass is
greener on the other side because I know for a fact that people always think that
it's better on the other side.
So many times I want curves galore, and so many times women tell me that they want my muscle-y, skinny body. For some reason, none of us are satisfied. So just have blinders on. Figure out your body type and just own it. Nothing more confident
than owning your body type and working with what you got. This includes standing in front
of the mirror quite a lot, getting used to yourself, figuring out what your best assets are. All of us have our best assets. For me it's my teeth and my abs. (laughs) If you tilt your camera this way, it means that your head is now gonna look a lot larger and you're
gonna shrink yourself and you're gonna make your
legs look a lot longer. Versus when you shoot like this, it's going to mean that
your legs are gonna look super long and distorted, and your head is going
to be very, very small. The best thing to do is make sure you shoot parallel to your body and also a really good tip to make your legs look extra long: lower the camera a little bit,
shoot from about hip height or even sometimes a little bit lower depending on how long
you want your legs to be.
(bass heavy music) I have worked professionally
on photography sets and sometimes it takes
up to 200 photographs to get that right shot, so make
sure you take a lot photos, but please don't put your
boyfriend through this unless he really loves it. Let's give boyfriends of
the Instagram a break, and either find a friend that
really loves snapping photos and you can take turns getting the perfect photo of each other, or learn the art of
taking a photo by yourself like I have because I don't want to put my poor boyfriend through
boyfriends of Instagram.
You need to line up the camera, the framing, your body pose, before you start snapping away because it is so awkward
when the camera's going. And literally, well I do,
I forget what I'm doing. I freak out and all my
photographs look crap. Take a moment, establish
yourself, get the framing right, get your body poses right, and then ask someone to take
about 10-15 photos of yourself with minor differences
like tilting your head. (bass heavy music) Poses that you have in your body are going to represent
something about you. So are you an artist, do you
want to show artistic imagery, do you want go for the
high fashion model look, do you want to be a girl of Instagram.
Different categories, different poses. So you need to find out what inspires you so you can pose away the right away to portray the right image about you. Hopefully some of these
tips have helped you just to master the art of posing, so you look great in photographs, so you can feel really
good about yourself. And if you're still embarrassed about posing in front of other
people, that's cool. I am really uncomfortable
posing in front of other people, so I have learned the
art of posing by myself and taking my own photographs, and you can find that video just here.
Or another thing, you can grab a friend that you
feel very comfortable with, that you trust and you wanna figure out this posing thing. Snap photos of each other, and see what comes out as the best. And finally if you follow my Instagram, you know that my photographs
are generally art. I don't do the typical poses, I'm not into fashion modeling, I wanna create a piece of artwork with every single
photograph and tell a story. So my angles are very strange. And I actually encourage a lot of girls or guys, anyone watching to
really experiment with angles because it's so much fun. Make things weird, make them unexpected so that people love your stuff. And I surprise every single time. Photography, my eyes should really be art. I've provided you with so many tips and I hope you're not overwhelmed.
This was just giving you a breakdown of all the go-to methods that models and professional posers use. But don't be overwhelmed, just
take whatever works for you. And also, quite often,
my favorite photographs are breaking the rules so don't stick just to all
of these, experiment. Think of a really good idea for video. If you can't send in some
photos of yourself posing, your best of the best poses
that you think you're doing, send it in to me and
I'll be able to critique and give you some advice and whether you're doing something wrong that could improve your posture and your pose completely
and it'll shift the way that you see yourself forever. That'll be pretty cool. So only if you're comfortable with me sharing these photos to the world and just giving a little bit of advice. So email us here, send it through to me. I think that's a really cool idea, because the way that I learned
and I teach other people is by being like uh, I see
something not quite right so I'm able to just adjust slightly and be like ah, that
doesn't quite look right.
And then with minor tweaks, can you just get so much out of a pose. Anyway, I hope you guys
enjoyed this video. I'm a little bit flat 'cause I had such good
ideas for the background and I tried so hard for
like three-four hours now I try to get this video up. But anyway, here it is. Sometimes you fail on the YouTube. I really do hope you guys enjoyed this. If you did, make sure you like, subscribe, hit the bell,
and I will see you guys in the near future. Peace. Welcome to Bali. Wind, music, dogs. I'm just gonna talk really
loud until they used to me. And then hopefully they'll stop. But I don't think they will. I'm just gonna keep talking louder. Let's see what, oh my God. Praise the lord. Welcome to YouTube and
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