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Posing a couple

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Posing a couple

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Whenever you organize group shots, you want to look for relationships between the people. And in this case, Trushana and Sako are a couple. Natalie Fobes: Now your head come on in, go ahead. You can actually kind of touch. Now I would like you to have your hand just up here, holding her, there you go. Let's actually try it over here on her shoulder this way, and down just a little bit, just kind of caressing. As a photographer you have to be aware of where your people are. Notice if they're nervous, if they need to take a little break. With Trushana and Sako, after a little bit of embarrassment about being photographed, they really kind of started getting into it and started enjoying it. I wanted them to be enjoying each other while I was photographing. Natalie Fobes: And you can smile. You have got a beautiful woman on your arm. There you go. When I am putting my couples together, I use the same poses that I use when I am shooting individual shots of them. I posed Trushana first and…

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