Just because you know composition, you know the exact right moment to click the shutter does not mean you are going to get a great image. You have to have a good pose. It's tough. People come in all shapes and sizes and the couples who pay you look nothing like the couples in your inspiration folder on Pinterest. Wake up call!!!
I have a family friend I inherited when I married my husband. I asked my best friend (a pro photographer) to take our wedding pics and my husband asked his best friend (a lover of taking pictures). My husbands best friend is getting married and I of course offered my services pro bono for his wedding. We did use a ton of his pics and I felt I owed him big time. Plus, they are on a budget and what are friends for. His bride asked if we could take a picture that she could frame and have people sign at the wedding. Of course I said. I knew the location, I knew the couple and I thought I had it in the bag. Nope.
Posing people is turning out to not be my strong suit. A very, very, very bad thing on my part. You have to know how to pose people. It does not unfortunately come natural to your subjects. Gah.
My shoot with them was not my best portrayal in my competency at posing. As a matter of fact most of the shots were unusable because I didn't pose her ideally. Ladies, cross your legs!!! Tilt them to the side!!! What was I thinking? I am walking away from this shoot with 1 usable picture that when I look at it I immediately see things I should have changed. I am kicking myself for not catching them when we were on location and I am toying with re doing it. My best advice is to keep looking. Keep looking at pictures, keep hoarding the poses you like. Refer to them often. Often. Keep them fresh in your head so when you are shooting you can think of them on your own and not need to refer to your folder on your phone. Good grief. This should be understood and plain common sense. I am now going to fill my folder with more poses and kick myself very hard.
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