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So there you have it, guys.

We have built an incredible foundation of posing.

Again, not just memorizing poses, it's understanding the

principles behind what we're doing.

Remember, everyone wants to be flattered.

Girls wanna look and feel beautiful.

Guys wanna look and feel cool.

Doesn't matter whether you're 70 years of age,

doesn't matter whether you're 20.

Quite simply, we need to bring out the

best in whoever we are photographing.

Of course, Lisa and Dylan are beautiful.

They're a very handsome couple.

And does anything change if we photograph different

body types or anything like that?

No, it's even more amplified.

It's even more important that we do those

S curves and we create the V out

of the male's body and everything like that.

If you're photographing more than one person, you're

photographing a couple, I like the idea of

actually at least somewhere where their bodies are

touching.

So we emulate that they're in love.

Even if it's an editorial picture, it's not

really meant to be too romantic.

There's just something going on.

Remember, posing has to be amplified in every

part of the body.

If I'm kissing with the face, my hands

can't be in the pocket.

If the legs are close, the face has

got to be close and so on.

I have no problem with doing stylized, fashionable

images.

In fact, I love those.

But we need to, if we're photographing a

wedding, we want everyone to just look and

feel beautiful.

And if the location is screaming romance, the

dress is screaming romance, then I want romance.

And sometimes it might be difficult.

You need to disarm whoever you're photographing in

terms of they're getting a little bit nervous.

I don't really feel comfortable or a guy

doesn't want to be photographed.

Of course, the rapport that you build with

your couples and whoever you photograph needs to

be there.

You can't just show up on a wedding

day and expecting that the groom will have

no problem being photographed and the bride is

going to be effortless because they might think

that you just shoot photojournalistically.

You're just a fly on the wall and

they just do nothing.

And then all of a sudden, they're going

to ask for all these photographs that just

don't exist.

So you must make sure that you educate

yourself as you're doing right now.

You educate your couples as to exactly how

you work and what you do and why

you do it.

And what I want you to do is,

when you look at your couples, explain to

them from the very beginning, I'm reiterating this,

of course, reiterate that you need to tell

your couples, your families, whoever you're photographing, exactly

what you do and why you're doing it

because women will do anything for beauty and

most men will do anything for their partners.

So just understand that as well, because there's

no issue.

Remember to slow down.

You'll get to the destination a lot quicker.

Don't just go in there with your nervous

energy and freak out and I don't care

whether it's your first wedding.

Slow down, take your time, enjoy the process.

You often saw me and of course, I

didn't take any photographs today.

I took fictitious photographs with the very camera

that's filming me right now.

And that is by everyone.

We had Lisa and Dylan sitting and standing

and squatting and all these different poses and

then we emulated what we would do behind

the camera.

But I slowed down.

I didn't have the camera in my hands.

I would not do that until I go

back and work on my exposure and then

of course, I evoke the emotion.

You must remember that you could be a

master at posing, but if you don't add

emotion to it, you are photographing a meaningless,

just fruitless exercise.

There's nothing going on.

There's no emotion.

So technically, it might be perfect, but there's

no emotion.

Therefore, the bride's not gonna feel anything.

So really, posing is like any art form.

The stronger and the more masterful the posing,

the more someone's gonna feel when they look

at it.

It's something that you just can't ignore.

I'm a photojournalist because I don't like to

pose or I don't know how to pose.

There's gonna be a time in your career

that you are going to need to know

how to bring out the best in people.

And here's the thing.

You might get a corporate couple who need

to be a bit more, they're a bit

more regal, a bit more sophisticated.

They might not be so lovey-dovey and

that's okay.

You can't just do pose number 23 with

bride number 47.

It doesn't work like that.

There are so many factors that come into

play.

I couldn't possibly teach you every little nuance

or everything that I've experienced in my career,

the important things that we're sharing with you,

the principles behind what we're doing so that

you can apply them with the people that

you're photographing.

Of course, be sure to check out the

corrective posing segment in this particular posing bundle

because it'll teach you how to actually work

with plus-size guys, plus-size girls, plus

-size couples.

And of course, you've got people with a

bigger nose or a crooked nose or bigger

ears or one eye is bigger than the

other and all those kinds of things.

We need to know how to handle that.

So please just know that included with this

bundle is the corrective posing module so we

can understand how to do all of these

things.

When you add more people to the mix,

so when you're adding a broader party and

family, please be sure to check out the

real weddings included in this as well so

you understand how to work with bigger groups

but the exact same thing happens.

We bring them in, shoulders back, lean forward,

chest out, all these different things.

I will tell groomsmen why I'm posing the

way I'm posing.

I'll tell girls to do the same thing,

point the toe, bend the knee, shift the

weight back, lean forward, and why I'm doing

it.

I'll often tell parents to bring their chin

forward and lean forward because we all will

be slimmer in this area.

I say we will all be slimmer in

this area.

I get faces tilting in, turning inwards.

So remember to actually check out our case

studies of real weddings of what it's like

to actually pose organically and fluidly in a

real wedding situation.

So guys, you have to understand that repetition,

experience, and practice will be your best teacher.

You can't just learn posing on an actual

paying gig because let's say for example, you

do 20 weddings in one year.

Then really you're only photographing for three weeks.

20 weddings is practically three weeks.

Would you master anything in three weeks?

Hell no.

No, you wouldn't.

So what I want you to do is

realize that you will only get better if

you practice not on a paying gig.

So if you like what you've seen today

and you wanna apply it with what you

do, why don't you go grab your friend,

your cousin, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your husband,

whatever it may be, just go out there

and practice.

Practice a masculine pose.

Hang the body down.

Relax a little bit.

Remember the nuances of everything that we've done.

I want you to learn how to bring

the shoulders back of our brides, leaning the

chest forward, bending the knee.

Some body types will not look good if

you go too much.

Some will not look good if you go

too far back.

Whatever it may be, just logically think to

yourself, how would I bring out the best

in who I'm photographing?

Ultimately, guys, it doesn't matter who is in

front of your camera.

We need to bring out the best in

them.

And of course, if you look at the

bride through the eyes of a loved one,

you will only ever see beauty.

If you look at the groom through the

eyes of a loved one, you will only

ever see someone handsome.

There is no ugly.

There is no attractive.

There is just beauty everywhere.

We simply need to understand that everyone's beautiful.

Everyone deserves our respect.

And everyone just deserves our best effort.

So educate yourself, which is fantastic.

It's what you're doing now.

And then go out there and don't forget

to have some fun.

Because ultimately, if you strive for perfection, you'll

probably never get it.

For me, I just want a perfect moment,

a perfect emotion.

And that is specific to a couple.

So build the architecture, add the emotion, and

now we're talking.

So we've covered lighting.

We've covered location in our case studies, in

our real weddings in different manners and things

like that.

And of course, posing is a big part

of what we do.

You cannot ignore it anymore.

Please do not do that.

And of course, technique is about camera choice

and lens choice and cropping and all these

different things.

And of course, emotion.

Don't forget that without emotion, posing is dead.

So thank you for the journey.

I'm looking forward to sharing more with you.

But practice what you've just learned.

And I can't wait for us to grow

together.