Photographing Families by Michele Celentano

Author:Michele Celentano
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118391730

Walk Like You Are Wearing Versace

Study the fashion runways and the celebrity awards shows. Watch how models walk and stand. These women know how to walk the red carpet and make a $30,000 handmade Versace dress look fabulous. Their shoulders are back, a hip is popped, a hand is on the hip (not the waist), their arms float away from the body, and their bodies are turned to the camera correctly. This is how these women are trained to wear the dresses high-end designers want them to model and ultimately sell.

Explaining to women how much better they look with beautiful, tall posture instead of rounded shoulders helps them understand how proper posing actually enhances her figure. Try it for yourself. Look in the mirror and study your own body and how it changes when you roll your shoulders back and stand tall. Notice what happens to your waist when your arms float slightly away from your body. Take notice of how much wider your body looks when your arms are down by your sides and then rest your hands on the lower part of your hips and notice that you now have a waist.

Stand straight before the mirror and push your hips forward slightly, then press your hips back slightly. Notice how your body appears thinner when you press your hips back (lifting the tailbone slightly). It feels a bit awkward (you feel like you are pushing your butt back) but the mirror or camera doesn’t see your backside; it only sees the front of your body, which you just thinned out.

Figures 6.1 and 6.2 illustrate a great example of how to create a smaller waist by bringing the subject’s arms away from the body. In Figure 6.1 my subject is standing straight in front of the camera with her arms by her sides, and a lower camera angle gives her an unflattering figure. In Figure 6.2 I am able to flatter her body by getting higher with my camera, turning her body slightly away from the camera, dipping her shoulder, and moving her hand to her thigh crease. Understanding camera height and proper posing completely changed the way her body looks. She did not like the first image at all but loved the second one.

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