Pose 1 — Hands on hips, pop the hip

so first off on the poses we’re gonna spread our stance try real simple hands on the hips, but don’t make it so vanilla just pop that hip a little bit teach them to pop that hip right either right or left with it camera yeah so whatever looks and feels comfortable each kid is gonna look and feel a little bit different

Let’s go camera right with it perfect chin out at me here we go

looking away yep go a little bit more left right there perfect

not only that we can shoot vertical and shoot it horizontal and that also increases our looks doubles them up back at Camera. Yep there you go

so now that one pose I’ve actually gotten four completely different shots looking at camera one looking away too at vertical looking at camera horizontal looking away horizontal so now one pose just gave you four looks in your portfolio and the images you’re gonna show your clients right so keep that in mind it’s like bonus it’s like you just getting all this extra stop for free

Pose 2 — Arms in front

all right let’s go here arms in front love that

Can you grab up a little bit higher like by the elbow love that but if we turn this way, no the other way I like that good chin to me a little bit more chin down that’s where I like you good job here we go one too

now you wanna watch those fingertips make sure you’re not cutting them out off

Looking away more right there beautiful OK now I’m gonna go horizontal with it

Perfect here we go eyes of me

Pose 3 — Arms behind back

Perfect here we go arms behind your back. I love that yeah square up to pop the hip this way now you go arms behind the back give me a little bit of flex so I can see through the arms here

This becomes really important just to give a little bit more roll the shoulders forward I wanna see those collarbones love that and then shimmy the shoulders a little bit

Love that beautiful right there here we go too here we go and we go vertical camera

Pose 4 — One hand on hip, one near face

now we’re gonna bring hands up into the equation and this is where people really struggle her number of reasons you’ve got to manages correctly so I’m gonna tell her what I want to do

Let’s go one hand on the hip and then this hand just right here next year face beautiful very soft hands chin down down a little bit more perfect

I want you to come in here closer so the thing that’s important here angles right so we’ve got an angle coming off her chest or her shoulders angle here angle back up and then you don’t want this hand getting straight right it’s gotta have a little bit of that angle and that makes it a much more pleasing shot

and trust me if you have to come in here and just kind of show them what you’re looking for that’s OK we do it all the time with our kids because if it just looks like this, nobody wants that picture right it’s gonna it looks awkward it’s gonna feel awkward if you’re coaching them through it it’s actually a good thing

so let’s take this shot

Here we go hand on that hip chin down and then push that in fact, just a little bit more beautiful

Pose 5 — Hair pull / soft hands

then something else I like to do again with hands so it’s that particular hand is take her other hand wherever side of her face or bang is that I want that hand to kind of gently pull it back

and again we’re gonna have the same problems when you ask kids to pull their hair back they do things like their hand comes in here the Yankee it’s just super awkward it’s like this big monster’s hand again very soft almost like they’re holding a pencil

so let’s pull that bang off is very gently right there so I don’t wanna see this so we’re gonna go down and go gently like you’re pulling it right there break that wrist for me beautiful elbow out just a pinch

Pose 6 — Hand on hip vs across body

put this hand on the hip put this hand up across your waist so what you should focus on is not what’s happening down here with his hand, it’s her shoulder area

watch what happens to her shoulder when she puts her hand on her hip, put that hand on the hip shoulder looks completely different

Go across the body than that so it just depends on what you’re looking for and how you’re gonna frame this up

Pose 7 — Arms overhead

OK, let’s keep going

Let’s go arms overhead yeah yep pop the hip real nice good hands are perfect right there

Let’s take this shot gorgeous not for this I love a little bit of funky composition so I’m gonna put her in the bottom of the frame, her arms are pointing up the eyes are going up and away

Pop that even more get me more angle beautiful keep that stunning stay there

Perfect now every kid is not gonna be able to pull that one off right now that’s OK that’s why you wanna have this in your arsenal and you work up to it

Pose 8 — Arms crossed + lower body (S curve)

so now let’s go to arms crossed by so this is all about attitude but something to make it look better is when you cross now I want to shoulder, shim me them for me yes so see the subtlety and all that

so go straight across with your shoulders and then shimmy them for me beautiful so here we go is a nice shot again I’m gonna use negative space for this vertical go horizontal looking away right there

now what we wanna do is mess with the lower body which I haven’t even touched

so let’s go ankles together hands on the hips, don’t put a perfectly symmetrical make them asymmetrical pop that hip a little bit for me, but I want you to just as your ankles are together start bringing that knee and then let that knee collapse across more more more

and so what we’re doing there is creating a beautiful S curve in her body it’s very asymmetrical the way we have her hands chin down just a little right there beautiful stunning Blair stay there with it