How to improve your photo shoot results:
Remember: Transitions make the best photos
30 days of selfies
Remember: Transitions make the best photos
- How do you pose a transition? Go through a huge stack of magazines and cut out all of the strangest poses. Paste them up around your bedroom mirror and practice sliding SLOWLY and SMOOTHLY through the different poses.
- Look at the photos in the header above. The bikini I was literally talking to the photographer, the middle one was captured after I had just asked the photographer a question and was waiting for his response, the third was taken while I was scooting into the actual pose.
- A photogarpher is like a hunter and the camera is his gun. He clicks when he finds something worth capturing, that is his game. So unless he tells you "don't move" keep moving through your series of poses
30 days of selfies
- So many times on the TV show ANTM girls are rebuked for not knowing their angles. What better way to get to know every single one of your angles than through 30 days of selfies? Here is the catch, you cannot repeat the same pose twice.
- How many of you have seen that young fashion designer who uses the word "fierce" and created his own language to go with his designs? Every picture of him in his book looks like he is literally a cardboard cut out! YOU CANNOT MAKE IT IN THIS WORLD WITH ONLY ONE POSE.
- So find some motivation, for me I had to do 30 days of different lipsticks, maybe you will do 30 days of different shoes or scarves. Post them on your favorite social media site so you have accountability with no repeats.
- Get a pen and paper then go through the alphabet and next to each letter put an emotion, then once you have done the whole alphabet write down a memory next to each emotion.
- Ex: A is for anger. There is nothing that can make my blood boil more than someone messing with my younger brother, so I imagine someone bringing emotional, mental or physical harm to him and *click*
- Referring again to ANTM, the judges have nailed plenty of contestants for having dead, emotionless and empty expressions on their faces.
- When you remember an emotional memory, hormones are released into your body causing tiny changes in the smaller muscles in your face. You need to go through your emotional memory bank and determine which memories are photogenic and which ones to blacklist when in front of the camera.
- Ex 2: A few years ago, I was standing on a folding chair at a party trying to get everyones attention. Naturally the chair collapsed, unnaturally the balletic side of my brain took over and in front of everyone I jumped out of the chair and spun in the air, landing in 5th position. While the majority of the room clapped, my Grandmother (a force to be reckoned with) gave me a look that should have scared the grin off my face. I still laugh at the incident to this day, when I think back on it my eyes smile and my entire face lifts. But, this face is not photogenic. So while it is a fond memory, it is not one that I can call on during a shoot.
- If you completely freeze in front of the camera and all recollections of preparation fail you, slowly mouth the alphabet and transition through whatever pose reminds you of the letter.
- Don't make this a habit though, no model maid it to the top by having the same 26 poses on repeat.