There are 'posing guides' everywhere: ebooks, Youtube tutorials, TikTok videos all promising the "5 poses that work for everyone".

Usually, it's only 'everyone' if you're young, able, skinny with a so-called 'perfect' body.

For everyone else, we find ways to shoehorn them into these supposedly 'flattering' poses.

As a result, we simply end up copying each other's poses - resulting in cookie-cutter awkward images all over websites and social media.

Let's change that up, shall we?

Instead of thinking about what standard poses to use, what if we asked two questions

1. How does YOUR body move naturally?

2. How do we work with your body to convey the emotion and the story YOU want to tell?

This is much harder than just memorizing a bunch of poses. It requires a deep study of body mechanics, compositional principles and non-verbal communication. But it's worth it.

I've found that once we start focusing on the core emotion and story, the concerns about finding 'flattering poses' simply go away.

You see a whole person, not just a pose or a body.