Getting a model to pose

08

Mar

When coming into a shoot and an agency send you a model, a new face. Great look, long legs perfect but her expressions are lifeless and her movements are stiff, now what do you do. You have two hours to deliver these beautiful fashion images to the designer. Start with this, go onto google images before the shoot and download a sheet of happy faces with expressions and what the expressions are written underneath it. Print this out and have it available for the model in the beginning of the shoot. Start with talking to the model and talking about all the different expressions. Tell her to go over the expressions and with every expression think of something, for example: this expression is happy, what’s something that makes you happy?
This will give more depth to the models expressions
Another thing to make the model more comfortable would be to put some music on, ask the model what type of music he/she enjoys.
To get the model more comfortable with posing you can do some funny poses first, tell her to do the craziest pose she can imagine and that these photos are just for fun and give you over exaggerated expressions. This should loosen the model up a little and get her/him in the groove.

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