Helpful Advice for Posing Couples

Knowing how to confidently and efficiently pose couples is an absolutely crucial skill for any engagement or wedding photographer, and yet, posing is one of the trickiest skills that often takes photographers the longest to master. If you find yourself struggling a bit with posing, check out this helpful video tutorial that offers some great tips sure to put you on the right track. 

Coming to you from John Branch IV Photography, this excellent video tutorial offers some actionable tips for improving your couples posing. One tip I found particularly salient is having an arsenal of go-to poses that you know and feel comfortable with. Not only will this help you appear more confident to the couple, thus putting them at ease and making them look more natural in the images, it helps you ensure that you always come away with some keepers, giving you a nice safety net and some room to work on capturing some more organic shots in the moment once you have those predetermined poses in the bag. Check out the video above for the full rundown. 

If you would like to continue to learn about wedding photography, be sure to check out "How To Become A Professional Commercial Wedding Photographer With Lee Morris and Patrick Hall!"

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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