So this week is Week 2 of the Brooke Snow Advanced Pro photography course that I’m busy doing, and this week’s assignment was about posing.

Because my family shoot that I had booked for Sunday afternoon was cancelled, I asked my sister to meet me in the veld (same location as last week) for a quick shoot after work today.  I’m thrilled with the results.

For my preparation, I compiled a rough pose list as per the instructions… rough because I have a list of inspirational images anyway on Pinterest, so I just looked for a few more to supplement it.  That wasn’t new to me, I tend to prepare like that with all my shoots, especially when I’m shooting in an environment that I’m unfamiliar with.  No, I don’t look at images from that particular location, but I have a rough idea from my pose list what I’m going to be aiming for.

What also wasn’t new to me, was “working the pose”.  I could be better at it though, so this weekend I really worked on that… and it showed in the results of the boudoir shoot I did on Sunday (that you can’t see yet), and with today’s shoot.  It made such a difference.

One thing that I LOVED in this week’s tutorials were the posing guides, and Brookes “rules” for posing.  I know them instinctively, and I’ve read them… but the videos just hit home, and there were some small adjustments that I made this weekend as a result that’s made a huge difference.  I like the images more… and because of that, I really really struggled to only choose 3 for today’s assignment.

So, for today’s assignment results, I kept Elaine in the same spot.  She really didn’t move much at all, I just changed where she looked and what she did with her arms and legs.  One thing that did change during the shoot was the sun… I was ecstatic when the clouds moved while I was busy and I got the beautiful golden summer light (it was about 5:30pm)

The rest of my favourites from the session can be found in an album on Facebook