Photography - Individual & Family Posing - Live Sessions

Master relaxed posing techniques to enhance your portrait photography. Learn to flatter your subjects and capture genuine emotions in every photo session.

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Brief Summary

This course helps you snap stunning portraits by using easy, relaxed posing techniques! You'll learn how to make real people look great in photos, breaking down the skill of posing into fun, approachable steps.

Key Points

  • Learn relaxed posing techniques for portraits
  • Focus on real people, not models
  • Warts and all approach, showing both successes and failures
  • Practical exercises to create natural and flattering positions
  • Understand basic dynamics of posing for better portraits

Learning Outcomes

  • Master relaxed posing techniques for individuals and families
  • Create your own unique poses using learned principles
  • Gain confidence in posing real-life subjects, not just models
  • Capture beautiful, natural moments in both indoor and outdoor settings
  • Understand the subtle elements of body positioning for flattering portraits

About This Course

Dramatically improve your portraits with these easy relaxed posing techniques. Flatter your subjects & they'll love you!

** Voted by students as one of Udemy's outstanding instructors of 2014 **

Follow me on live photo sessions with individuals, couples, 'fuller figure' subjects, young and older siblings and large and extended families and watch how I pose them to overcome their natural tendencies to sit or stand like statues and to get some great portraits.

  • Real life indoor and outdoor photo sessions

  • Warts and all posing i.e. some of them don't quite work, and I say why!

  • Mostly non-model real live people, like you and me,

  • Create beautiful family photos by getting your lovely subjects into more natural, relaxed and flattering positions..

  • Practice the easy steps in this course and it will pay huge dividends in your portraits

  • PDF crib sheets are available for most of lectures, keep them with you


Models aside, the majority of us are not aware of our natural and unconscious body positions and so we don't usually present ourselves as well as we might. For example, most of us tend not to be concerned with where or how we place our hands and arms, tilt our heads, or position our feet. This course shows how I handle that problem, and how I position and pose people to get great results.

Posing is a powerful skill that will transform your portraits, not only can you copy the ones demonstrated in the videos, but understanding the general basic dynamics of a good pose, will help you to create your own.

Each video has a short introduction and summary of the photo session that just took place, it's then followed by the live photo session.

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This is a brand new course so no reviews yet

Modesty almost forbids me publishing some comments about my teaching style, taken from reviews of my other two courses, but I overcame that, so here they are:-

Bernie is really easy to listen to, and his videos were really entertaining and kept you listening. (I also like his accent!)

Many online courses suffer from over prepared, monotonic boring voice overs but Bernie's style is a bit like having your mate round to show you how to do something. This even goes to leaving some bloopers in which makes it human and fun.

Bernie is a hoot! He knows his material, presents it well, and is witty to boot. It's a great combination in a teacher.

I love Bernie's approach. Such a great instructor,

Bernie is an excellent teacher and his enthusiasm for photography is contagious.

Bernie is a fantastic tutor,

Love it, love it, love it!!

  • Improve your portraits using these great live photo session posing tips

  • Easily create your own poses, once you understand the basic principles

  • Confidently pose individuals, couples and families, real people, not models

Instructor

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Bernie Raffe AMPA

** Voted by students as one of Udemy's outstanding instructors of 2014 ** Bernie is a professional photographer based in the UK, and has been passionate about photography ever since his parents bought him his first camera when he was just 11 years old (a Kodak Brownie 127)! He's qualified as a photographer to 'Associate' level with both the MPA...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Kacey Fu
Kacey F.
5.0
11 months ago

實用、有趣的技巧。令人滿意的教學。

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ui-avatar of Andrea Colburn
Andrea C.
5.0
1 year ago

Charming photographer showing real time sessions makes the material accessible and bite sized lessons make them perfect to squeeze in before a shoot.

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ui-avatar of Shari Sellars
Shari S.
4.5
2 years ago

I enjoyed this course, especially the video of posing Fuller figured people, because that is something I struggle with.

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ui-avatar of Shannon Day
Shannon D.
3.5
2 years ago

Well explained, learned a lot

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ui-avatar of Nikohle Barnes
Nikohle B.
5.0
2 years ago

Lots of great tips. Look forward to using the things I have learned.

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ui-avatar of Mariam Khan
Mariam K.
4.5
3 years ago

I enjoyed the course. Learnt a lot about posing for the camera. I am leaving this course with a lot of knowledge about posing and hoping to use it when I am taking pictures.

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ui-avatar of Joshua D Foley
Joshua D. F.
5.0
3 years ago

The instructor does a good job of connecting with the models and with his audience

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ui-avatar of Aimee Nicole
Aimee N.
5.0
3 years ago

Loving it so far, I definitely struggle with poses

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ui-avatar of Shelbie Steeves
Shelbie S.
5.0
4 years ago

Bernie is a great teacher and it is super helpful seeing the live sessions rather than just explaining what went into each photo. I would and probably will take more courses by him.

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ui-avatar of Catherine Auman
Catherine A.
5.0
4 years ago

Really fun course! While learning a lot and finding my own creativity being stimulated as well.

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