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Posing a photo subject

Posing a photo subject

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Posing a photo subject

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- Last week here on the Practicing Photographer, David McNeese took my portrait, a process that was for me surprisingly not painful. David, we talked last week about the process of interacting with a portrait subject to make them feel at ease so you can get what you need out of them. This week I want to talk about posing because you were giving me lot of very specific direction and right off the bat I'm going to say what was curious about it and you copped to this while we were doing it is a lot of it didn't leave me in positions that were particularly comfortable. - Right. - So you were having me tilt me chin up and things that are pretty common, you the first thing I want to get on, I was sitting on the stool and you were having me lean forward. - Right? - What does that change? - So your natural tendency I think when people sit whether there's a back on the chair or whether there's not, it's just to lean…

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