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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Best resources to learn to photograph women as a GWC? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by MojoMinistry@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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One of my buddies is a club promoter who has girls wear merch for his company and takes pretty mid photos with his phone.

I think I could do a better job with my camera and selfie ring lights, told him so, and he said to roll with him on Wednesday.

Where can I learn how photographing women works? I feel like there is an etiquette I don't know and the special only trick I know is shooting from below the waistline - which I learned from a Brazilian dude.

Like, I just straight-up tell my girlfriend "stick your butt out" or "do a sexy pose", but I feel like that's probably unprofessional cause I would never imagine my anime cosplay photographer buddy doing that.

The only photographer commands I know are:"Turn your chin [direction]"and "Turn your hip towards me"

I was given, "Turn your hip towards me", by a dude I know who throws photoshoots to replace what I normally tell my girlfriend. He made it sound like it's the only move I need and explained that the models know more about posing than I do.

I also watched a YouTube video from a portrait lady, and she said you can tell people to, "sit comfortably". I don't know if that's good for what we're doing, though.

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[–] jondelreal@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It helps to have them mirror what you want. Just be normal. Show them a pose, have them mirror you, tell them to adjust whatever needs adjusting (tilt your chin, turn your waist towards this way, elbows out, etc. etc.).

It'll also help if you have a mood board with certain poses to either show your models or for yourself to do for them to replicate.