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Tips on posing hands<\/h1>\n

This portrait of my friend Christy<\/a>, was shot in my studio – the lighting entirely from the globes circling the make-up table. In fact, if you look closely, you can see the ring of lights circling the iris of her eyes.<\/p>\n

Now, as drop-dead gorgeous as Christy is, it is also a running joke between us that she is tough to pose. She isn’t a model, so hasn’t built up the experience or repertoire of poses yet to naturally glide into a pose in front of the camera. So it needs me to pose her or adjust her pose along the way.<\/p>\n

In the case of her hands, it needed meticulous posing from me to get to the point where the portrait really looks elegant.<\/p>\n

I tend not to pose mechanically, but rather in a more ‘organic’ way, by looking at my subject, and the context of where we are. Every person’s body and posture and personality is different, that I don’t feel you can apply those “flow-posing” instructions without adapting them. It might mean carefully placing the body’s elements (hands, feet, fingers), and posture in a way that\u00a0very specific. Or you can do it in an intuitive way. Or somewhere in-between. But it does imply that when you work with someone who isn’t an experienced model, you will have to help with the posing.<\/p>\n

Here I specifically placed Christy’s hands, even down to shifting the position of her elbows where they rested on the table.<\/p>\n

What I look for when posing hands:<\/p>\n