{"id":243,"date":"2015-05-17T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2016-09-12T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:18:03","slug":"male-portrait-poses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/male-portrait-poses\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Portrait Poses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Portrait<\/a><\/p>\n

Equipment used:
\nPaul Buff 86 inch PLM
\nPLM 7 feet back from subject with photographer in front of it
\nEinstein 640 Studio Flash
\nwhite sweep
\nCanon 6D, 35mm 1.4<\/p>\n

Information on posing men for portraits<\/a> is far less easy to find than posing women.\u00a0 The male portrait is about capturing completely different traits.\u00a0 Rather than cute or glamorous the male portrait is about strength, fitness, coolness, ease or likability.<\/p>\n

Typically men need a purpose for their hands.\u00a0 If not using their hands, they can get fidgety and feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

This model was awkward smiling directly into the camera and as with most male clients: didn\u2019t know what to do with his hands.\u00a0 The photographer had him put one hand in a pocket, the other holding a pair of glasses.\u00a0 The assistant was off to the side making the model laugh.\u00a0 The photographer said, \u201cWhen you start laughing look into the camera\u201d and we got the shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Equipment used: Paul Buff 86 inch PLM PLM 7 feet back from subject with photographer in front of it Einstein 640 Studio Flash white sweep Canon 6D, 35mm 1.4 Information on posing men for portraits is far less easy to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,109,1,15,33,31,97],"tags":[114,113,111,115],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-photography","category-light-modifiers","category-photography","category-portrait","category-portrait-backgrounds","category-studio-portait","category-white-background-photography","tag-male-portrait","tag-male-portrait-poses","tag-portrait-photography","tag-posing-hands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2cxVk-3V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}