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So we've talked about how a location can

give you an idea for a photograph.

It's no different when you've got a pillar

or a wall.

It's quite basic but it's amazing how just

a simple thing like this can give you

endless and countless ideas.

I want to show you how I would

pose a groom up against a wall and

arguably even how he would do it on

his own.

So Dylan you don't know what I'm going

to do right now.

So let's just do this.

I actually just want you to lean up

against this pillar with your back against it.

So just don't think about it.

I want you to just rest right up

against it.

In fact put your back against it.

All right, so let me go back.

Let me just see what he does naturally

because it's usually what most guys will do.

Okay, it's not too bad.

What he's doing is he's resting up his

back right up against it.

There's no air between his back and the

pillar.

So basically his upper back and his butt

are right up against the pillar.

Now we said we like to have a

glorified hanging of the body so that the

groom sort of looks and feels cool.

His chest is close to the camera.

His waist is further back and so on

and so forth.

So what I suggest when we have a

groom up against either a pillar or a

wall or anything like that, I suggest that

we do this.

So I want you to do this for

me.

So you'll put your feet about that distance

apart from the pillar.

I want your backside right up against the

pillar and then I want you to bring

your shoulders off.

That's it, just like that.

Bring it right off.

Now you see how he's actually bending the

right knee rather than the left?

We said for a guy or a girl

it's actually important that we bend the knee

that's close to the camera.

So not so much posing with it.

All you're doing is you're putting your weight

on your back leg.

Switch.

Good.

Turn your upper body towards me.

More, more, more, more, more.

Good.

Good.

Let's have a look.

Have a look from this particular angle.

Just relax a little bit.

Let the air out of that pose a

little bit.

There we go.

Hang the body.

Turn your face this way.

Good.

And that works.

His chest and shoulders look stronger and bigger.

Let's look at this particular one.

Actually you're probably a bit too far out.

Just bring your feet a little bit closer

to the pillar.

Yep, that's good.

Fantastic.

And that works.

Now if he was facing me, so if

you could do me a favor, do that

exact same pose but right in front of

that pillar.

Good.

We can do the good old leg swap

there.

So do this for me.

And so that looks good because it actually

is creating a V in his body.

That works well.

Now do it the other way.

I think that works well too.

In fact they both work in that particular

position.

But remember that you don't want to get

the groom or anyone right up against the

wall like this.

Because when you stand up a bit too

straight, the gut comes out, double chin.

You want to relax those shoulders down.

Bend the knee that's close to the camera.

Hang the body.

Hang the body.

And then sort of turn your face a

little bit this way.

Because when you go straight, you're sort of

bringing your chin, your whole face right into

your neck.

You don't want that.

What you want to do is just bring

that chin out.

Good.

Hang the body a little bit.

Nicely relax.

And then turn your face.

And then we've got a really cool shot.

Very, very, very good.

Okay.

So while we're talking about this, we've actually...

I want to do a shot of you

squatting.

So let's do this.

From this particular camera angle.

Okay.

This x marks the spot so to speak.

I want you to...

If I just said to you squat, what

would you do?

Okay.

He's almost got it right.

Okay.

So he's looking pretty good.

See the thing is if both of your

feet were together.

So put your both feet together and face

me perfectly.

Okay.

It looks like he's going potty.

We don't want that.

All right.

What we want to do is this.

We also don't want to get his pants

dirty.

So I'm going to get you to twist

your body around that way for me Dylan.

That's good.

Now you're going to do this.

Mirror what I'm doing.

You're going to put this knee up and

the other one down.

Yeah.

So that one up.

There you go.

And now you don't even have to put

the other knee on the ground.

So this is cool because now it actually

looks great for him because now we're actually

hiding his waist.

Not that he's got a belly problem but

it's cool because his chest and shoulders are

there and it looks strong.

His belly is further away from the camera.

He's hanging his body which guys love.

And that's a cool shot for a guy.

So always remember that guys need to just

hang.