Photography Posing Guide

The Bedouin are a tribe of natives whose area covers the Middle East and North Africa. They believe that when you take someone's photograph, you actually steal a part of their soul. Many a tourist has taken a photograph of a Bedouin in town on holiday, only to have the Bedouin charge at them, rip the camera from their hands, and smash it.

That sets a pretty low bar for you to beat, so to pose better than a Bedouin, here are some photography posing ideas:

Look Your Best Be well-groomed and wearing clothes that at least don't look like you just got mauled by a grizzly. If anybody pops up to surprise you by taking your picture when you're rolling out of bed, you have my permission to respond like a Bedouin.

Try To Look Happy The idea of saying "cheese" is to smile. Don't get too specific, like say, "Camembert". Goths are excused from this rule. Goths, in fact, are required not to smile when posing for a picture. Nothing spoils that gloomy corpse-in-a-shroud effect like beaming like a kid at Disneyland.

Check Behind You No, really, there's something there. A pole that will look like it's growing out of your head, a pile of garbage that makes you look like you were scavenging at the town dump, a puddle of barf from a passing drunk, a drug deal going down, an escaped psychopath sneaking up to axe-murder you. If you ever feel bored and lonely, just stop to have your picture taken and a whole circus will immediately form behind you.

Look Towards Light Cameras are really nothing but light sensors, after all, so your face and front-side will need to be illuminated so the camera can record it. Too many people stand in the shade under an umbrella on the terrace at the golf club with miles of sunlit grass and sky behind them, and then they wonder why the picture came out looking like a cartoon of a shadow running around.

Copyright Roy Barker. That was a brief model posing guide. Here's another (more in-depth) article to help prepare you for posing. If you like that here's a full report on, posing and portrait tips.

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