VIDEO : Posing tips to improve your shots
January 16th, 2009 at 12:07pm
It’s Friday again and you all know what that means : A new LIME video !
For our fifth video we tried something new : a screencast.
Using some examples I’ll be trying to explain how some small changes in a pose can really improve your shot. If you like the movie and/or the screencast concept please let us know by email or in the comments !
Enjoy !
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In case you can’t play the video, you can also see it on YouTube.
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thanks very much for this. very interesting
make sure you have somen new material left for capture the romance
Beautiful and usefull video!
Thank you!!
@Tom that won’t be a problem
@Matteo glad you like it !
I loved it! Thank you!
The changes are really small, but they have a great impact!
Great video Pieter and above all great tips !
Since you are doing screencast now, I will really appreciate to see some before / after post processing. I am curious about the amount of work after your shot.
Thanks !
I like it. Simple and nice with shots to show all the dos and don’ts.
I can’t wait for the next video.
I really looking forward to your video’s. This is a valuable addition to all the existing photogrsphy sites.
Keep up the good work!
Your dedication to quality and frequency of video posts are great. You’ve got some really good momentum with this project, and I’m becoming a true fan. Keep it up!
Love the videos, thanks for being a great resource!
I loved this! I’m really looking forward to ones from you in the future.
Question: In the shot with the piano, did you set the lens focus on the groom or the bride, or was the depth of field deep enough to make both sharp? I initially thought it must be on the bride since she’s facing directly at you, but the groom’s face is so bright in the frame I began to change my mind.
@Tom the images in the movie can already give you a good idea about the type & amount of postprocessing. These came from a finished wedding, so the before pics are unprocessed, the after pics are processed. But you can count on it that we’ll be dedicating some screencasts to postprocessing in the near future !
Thanks for all the cool comments guys !
Great video Pieter!
I’m 17 and I currently assist doing weddings - I think i’ll find your videos most useful for the up-comming wedding season =D
Cant wait till the processing videos come along =)
I think it would have been more of a fair test if you simply copied the processing of the after image to the before image, it only takes 4 clicks
Fantastic images, loving the videos - I check all the time for new stuff =)
Thanks
Daniel
Nice screencast, Pieter.
Well worth watching!
Nevertheless I’m wondering if this might me easier to show with just some text and images. I can imaging it would take less work to make and the end result will be equally useful.
Personally I postpone watching video’s until I’ve got some more time whille articles are easier to quickly read through. However I’ll do it, I’ll most certainly will watch it. Just trying to be helpful..
I partially agree with you Elja, You see, I’ll watch a movie before I read a long article…. I have a free subscription to webphotochool.com, and all they have is text, and no video….I would much rather watch a quick video that taking time to read a bunch of text… But either way is useful… For me, making a screencast is super easy…. you just start the program, hit record, and start working…. afterwards, you add your credits, and you’re done….
I definitely liked seeing your before and after pics… it helps to visualize what you want your models to be doing.
Like this format very much. Great work!
I would like to see one on balancing your flash to the indoor ambient for those reception and party shots where the ambient can be everything from bright to very dark. How do you cope with low light levels, and how and when do you alter the white balance for tungsten.
Gene
Great posing tutorial Pieter. I like the way you did a video to show this rather than an article. It is much easier to digest and understand when I hear your reasoning and thoughts outloud. I think you could take this posing theme a thousand different directions and then you could do the same thing with lighting also. Great concept and a nice addition to your video series.
Great format and advice. Thank you for the post. This has really helped me.
Pieter I really enjoyed the video as well as your style. A future subject I think that would be very helpful is the subject of White Balance under mixed flash and ambient indoor light, especially when there are no assistant for off-camera flash and we are forced to bounce/diffuse…
Thank you so much!
Great stuff. Love the movies and the screencasts. Keep up the terrific work.
If you are ever in San Francisco let me know.
Loving this website, i get so much out of each post, keep ‘em coming! photog from sydney, australia
loved it!!!
I really appreciate what you are doing here, and i look forward to all of your posts.
Im a 17 year old photographer living in barbados. and it’s difficult to come by good advice down here
I’d just like to say how invaluable this site is becoming as a resource. All of the posts so far are brilliant, to the point and inspirational.
Thanks a lot and keep it up.
Matt (UK)
Absolutely fabulous! Great pictures, and priceless advice! I really appreciate the insight that you guys are sharing! Thanks so much!
Some great work here. I think that something fresh and new like this really diversifies the community and is invaluable tools to other photographers.
Thank you.
Hey guys!
Thx a lot for sharing this nice video. It will help a lot to capture a portrait.
cheers
André
Wonderful video. Thanks a bunch, very informative especially to a beginner photographer like myself!. Please post more! =D
Really like the screencast, small posing tips like these make all the difference in these shots! You can bet that I’ll be here waiting for the postprocessing screencasts!! Great work with this site guys!
Really helpful! I hope to see more screencasts like this. Maybe a recommended lightroom workflow?
Wonderful! Didn’t even think about a video like this and yet it is just as interesting and helpful as the other while shooting. Great tips, subtle things do really make a great difference, looking forward to the next screencast!
These posing tips are really helpfull, the small changes make the difference.
Sometimes when working the strobist way vs available light I find sometimes one can get carried away a bit in the thinking process about lighting issues.
Keep up the good work!
Yet again, a nice movie with lots of helpfull tips.
What I’d like to see, tho i don’t know if it falls within your scope, is a movie handling workflow in Lightroom. What way do you rate, dismiss, handle pictures before coming to a finished product.
Greetz
Nice screencast. It’s those simple but brilliant little tricks that make a diffrence between a snapshot and a great picture !
Just to show, all the little things add up.
I really appreciate the posing tips a lot! Hope to see more in the future.
Fantastic video. It has a lot of the same concepts as Doug Gordon’s flow posing, but your delivery is a little easier to follow and offers a different perspective on it.
Keep up the videos! I’d like to see more of your ideas on posing.
When you get in closer, do you tend to worry about details like hand position, or do you let the couple be more natural?
Thanks Pieter for the really interesting video. I love how you show that a little adjustment makes a huge difference.
..how little details can change the whole final picture - awesome. you guys really do an amazing job at squeezthelime! i love your “behind-the-scene”-videos, they inspire me so much. looking forward for new posts here….
very helpfull and insightful video, keep these videos coming…
Hey Peter, this is very interesting! Great work! Thanks for sharing!
Pieter,
I like you guys! And I enjoyed pausing this mid-way and trying to figure out how I would repose the couple myself - then restarted and watched how you did it. Yours always looked better than mine :-).
But it’s making me think about what really engages the eye and mind with a shot. Thanks for that.
If you ever get a spare ten minutes how about a big quiz with ‘how would you repose this’ before and afters.
Cheers
Jonathan.
Please do more of these, include studio/engagement shoots as well. Posing people so they look best and the shot is engaging is the hardest thing I’m trying to learn in shooting people, so any of these helps a lot
Very informative and good tips, keep it up.
Shiraz
Thank you always enjoy the information to grow, keep up the great work it’s very apreciated.
Awesome work. Love all the video. And thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences.
You guys are fantastic! Thanks for sharing all this useful info in such a great format!
Thanks Pieter these are great tips and they really helped me achieve some great results at a wedding I shot recently. Thanks a lot and keep up the great work.