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Featuring Guest Photographer and Educator, Frank Dispensa
While rules are often meant to be broken, knowing the techniques to create classic posing and classic lighting patterns are skills every portrait photographer should know. Join host Joe Brady and his special guest Frank Dispensa as many common posing situations for photographers are analyzed.
From headshots to full-length, sitting and standing, Frank will explore how light direction, body angle, head tilt, and hand and arms position can make the difference between an unflattering portrait and a great one making subjects look their best.
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19 responses to “Classical Posing & Portrait Lighting”
I watch stuff like this and realize how much I've yet to learn. Awesome video!
Thank you so much. Great!
Wouldnt you want the man to stay taller
Damn this is alot of information. What an awesome vid .
This is such a great video! Full of great posing tips.
Thank you soooo much for fluff free straight to the point concise posing tutorial. I always find it useful to cover what looks right and not so right and why. And you covered this beautifully. Thumbs up for the lovely models too! Awesome!
It was really very absorbing but very fundamental. Thanks
It seems highly suspicious that none of these "Photography" channels can take say a Canon 60D add some LED lights and take portraits. Seems like a "Pro" camera, expensive strobes is the only way they are getting these shots. The APS-C sensors require more lighting and due to the smaller sensors you need to bump up the ISO's which is what makes the pictures from an APS_C camera look amateurish. APS_C cameras are fine but again look at the camera and equipment used here, so what would he accomplish with a $30 ring light and a Canon T1i?
I have taken several tests on an old T1i and it's clear none of these guys would have the skills or patience necessary to even get 1 shot done unless you give them back their 2000$ strobes and $5000 Full Frame DSLR. The difference in 2021 between "Pro" and "Home" user is now the equipment as all the information and knowledge is all out there already.
omg!! after hundreds of videos of how to pose for pictures this is the best one I have ever seen. thank you very much; tomorrow I will take some pictures of families and couples at church and this video gave me great ideas
This is REAL portrait photography
I watched a lot of 'posing videos'. This one I watched years ago. It still is by far the best 'basic posing' video around. Learn this basics and only when you have this all in your system, then let go and start experimenting so you can be creative. One first has to learn to walk before one can run.
They didn’t show where her feet were placed in the first position.
What an amazing tutorial. Thank you very much…totally appreciated. At 43.30, While a close up would look good, how would you re-adjust the gap around the trunk? I feel like they are uncomfortable or push to pose or not intimate? Any other adjustments you may recommend?
Very good and thorough information 👍
I need these two to make a whole series of videos…pleeeeeease!!!
This is gold!
i refund this video after many years.
very nice video. thanks
2021 and it is still the best how to pose in a very classic fundamental portrait. today we got that trendy pose and trend will die but classic is forever stays. I watch this video many time Soni can remind my self what to look for . thank you so much again .