Tuesday Tips #310 – Less Posing, More Directing

You know how they say “The best laid plans often go awry”? Anyone who has come to a shoot with a set of poses in their head knows this to be true. Here’s the real truth though, the awry is where the good shots always lie! Use those poses to set your subject up with a task to complete but while they are in the midst of getting there, shoot away. While you direct your subject into your pose, let them float from a relaxed position back into the pose. They likely won’t be able to duplicate the position perfectly every time and in those slight variations, the more relaxed and natural form of them is likely to float up to the surface.

“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.”
-Mary Schmich