From the course: Creative Business Portrait Photography: Posing Your Subjects
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Introducing the head-tilt technique
From the course: Creative Business Portrait Photography: Posing Your Subjects
Introducing the head-tilt technique
- [Instructor] Asking your subject to slightly or subtly tilt their head can be a really interesting way to create connection. Let's look at a few images so that I can illustrate this. If you start to watch movies or look at portraits, you'll find that often a little bit of a head tilt can kind of be, I dunno, warming or endearing. and you can think of the head tilt by how that line almost straight down the face is angled. Rather than straight up and down, it's a little bit off to the side. Now, in this case, we're seeing that this is creating this emotion where it's sort of warm, it's sort of comforting. In other situations, it might be a little bit more like with Joel Grimes, a great photographer and photo educator and friend, it might be a little bit more like, "Hey man, what's up?" like, "Here I am," like he's not sizing you up, but he's definitely looking at you in a way that's different than that eye-to-eye, really square, really straightforward look. Now I'm mentioning…
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