brian_kraft

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<p>I came across this great posing guide in the past. I've found this collection of poses to be a great help to my photography with individuals and couples. It's an 18 page PDF that's full of poses-- with the woman by herself, with the man by himself, and both together. You may find some to not be your style, but there are many that are useful. What I've done is before an upcoming photoshoot, I'll pick a handful from here that I want to try and commit the position to memory. Then after I look at all the photos I've taken I decide which are really working and ditch those that are not (although, some of those may just be more appropriate on the right person, setting, mood, etc.) Then before getting behind the camera for the next photoshoot, I add a few more to memory to add on to those ones that worked well the times before. Eventually, they start to get engrained into you (well, I still have a lot of work to do on that!) and I think you start to intuitively see the body lines, angles, etc. and it becomes more about subtley molding the person in different situations, rather than the more canned cookie-cutter posing approach. <br>

http://www.briankraft.com/posing.pdf</p>

 

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<p>Great work on your very first wedding photos. Hopefully you can start to get paid to be a wedding photographer in the future- if you decide you want to. :-) Looks like a beautiful location.</p>