Why is it that many photographers pose writers with their hand(s) awkwardly hovering around their face?
How often do we do this in real life? Almost never.
• the chin-on-fist pose (looks like a punch on the chin)
• the finger-on-chin pose (smart and pensive)
• the drooping fingers under-chin pose (nonchalant)
• the chin-almost-on-palm pose (uncomfortably relaxed)
• the fingers clasped pose (please buy my book, I beg you)
• the fingers-over-mouth pose (I'm muzzling myself)
* the Mr. Burns evil steeple (come into my parlour)
As few of us are actors or models, we’re not usually comfortable with cameras so posing can be awkward and unnatural and we tend to do what we’re told by the photographer.
But few photographers are directors so they don’t really know how to get our quintessential body language right.
When you feel uncomfortable in a pose, you'll look uncomfortable so, pick your own, the photographer wont mind and you’ll look much better.
How often do we do this in real life? Almost never.
• the chin-on-fist pose (looks like a punch on the chin)
• the finger-on-chin pose (smart and pensive)
• the drooping fingers under-chin pose (nonchalant)
• the chin-almost-on-palm pose (uncomfortably relaxed)
• the fingers clasped pose (please buy my book, I beg you)
• the fingers-over-mouth pose (I'm muzzling myself)
* the Mr. Burns evil steeple (come into my parlour)
As few of us are actors or models, we’re not usually comfortable with cameras so posing can be awkward and unnatural and we tend to do what we’re told by the photographer.
But few photographers are directors so they don’t really know how to get our quintessential body language right.
When you feel uncomfortable in a pose, you'll look uncomfortable so, pick your own, the photographer wont mind and you’ll look much better.