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sosuigeneris · 4 months ago

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Posing 101

So, you’re at a gala, red carpet, any highly publicised event and you want to look fantastic in the pictures. Your hair, make up, outfit look fabulous but just that won’t help the pictures look great - you need to know how to really pose well, to accentuate your best sides.

And you know that Cherry has got ya back ;)

Positioning your Back

First, get your body posture right.

Tuck your shoulder blade into imaginary back pockets of your dress/ pants, pullll your shoulders back. You can see Bella’s shoulder blades (marked with the two red lines) really being pulled back here.

Another angle of keeping your shoulder blades back, as shown by Bella, with her chin parallel to the ground.

Legs and Hands

I do not like standing like a soldier, with my feet together. Rather, I prefer doing what Kendall here is doing - keep one leg back, and shift your weight on that, keeping the front leg slightly bent. This helps give your legs a leaner look and your body will feel more confident.

Keep your hands close to your body, touching your thigh, its what i call “Barbie” hands. It makes your hands look more comfortable, and you won’t feel awkward doing this once you practice enough. If you have a purse or clutch in one hand, ensure that the other hand is still close to your body. Pull your elbows back, in line with your shoulder blades.

What you could also do with your arms, is pull one closer to the body than the other, so that it’s in line with the sides of your waist. This helps accentuate your curves. I think this is Jasmine (if its not her pls tell me so), and she’s cleverly kept one arm close to the body (marked with a red arrow), and the other creates negative space (blue triangle). Creating triangles with your arms or legs makes your body look really confident and lean.

Another example of Barbie hands with a clutch, shoulder blades pulled back, chin parallel to the ground, and the leg position I mentioned above.

Notice the legs in this photo - they’ve all shifted weight to one leg more than the other.

Group Photos

The Kardashian-Jenners are really good at group photos. Most times, we have a tendency of entering the other person’s space either by leaning our head or bodies towards them, which makes our bodies look small and contorted. The KJ clan does a great job of staying in their space and remaining cohesive.

Here, their heads remain looking straight ahead, not leaning towards any person.

Khloe keeps her free hand close to her body, elbow pulled back (similar to Jasmine’s arm marked with the red arrow) and her shoulder down; whilst Kylie creates negative space and a triangle (similar to Jasmine’s arm marked with the blue triangle) and emphasises her shoulder by pushing it up.

Kendall avoids the soldier stance by keeping one leg in the front, and since she’s the tallest, doing so also allows her to look more in line with her family.

Kim keeps both her hands in the front - i think it’s because of her height. She is one of the shortest, and by not putting her arm around her siblings, she looks confident and in control.

even in this mirror selfie, notice how no one invades anyone else’s space - their heads are in line with their bodies.

Posing with your Partner

now, how do you pose with your partner? Let’s take a look at Paris. Paris, firstly, ensures that there is no space between her and her partner (See the blue circle). However, she twists her hips towards the camera (blue line) and one leg in the front, so that her body doesn’t look under-confident. She pulls her shoulders back and keeps her arms close to her body.

Kaia also takes a note from Paris - there is no visible space between her and Austin. She pulls her shoulders back and DOWN, and creates negative space with her free hand (blue triangle), all while keeping her hands close to her body.

lastly, Winnie. Winnie’s partner is significantly taller than her, we can see the way he’s leaning towards her. Winnie however, keeps her body tall and sharp. As usual, she’s creating triangles with her body; see her legs and free hand.

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leggurs · 1 year ago

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silverspleen · 1 year ago

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Every time I see that G--gle phone photoshop commercial my heart is filled with infinite sadness, like, yeah it's cool you can have a good family photo, it's cool you can do that, but god, there is something to be said for the honesty of a family photo where you're blinking, or crying, or have ugly wrinkles.

What is too unsightly for you? Would you swipe-click-replace out the image of my cousin crying on our Florida trip family reunion photo? Would you remove the plastic snake I have clenched in my grip, which I still have to this day? Would you scoff at the wrinkles around our eyes and the strands of hair on our faces as we squint into the wind, the day before the massive storm? Would I remember it if I didn't have these reminders, if the picture was perfect and clean, all children in a row with perfect gleaming white tombstone tooth smiles? No tears. No plastic snake.

Everyone is beautiful and no one looks genuine.

#like it's cool it's cool but also IT HURTS.#BE UGLY #HAVE AN UNFLATTERING PICTURE OF YOURSELF #it's who you are #people are often unflattering and it's genuine #anyway stupid candid camera shots will always be my favorite pictures of myself #I like to see how I look when I'm not posing #the dragoon diaries

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slushy-sash · 4 months ago

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