So let's have a look at the shadow pose. Now some of the key things we want to do with this poses, we want to turn the body into the fill lights darkened down the front, we want to tilt the shoulders. So typically, we will tilt the shoulder to the leading knee. And then we will tilt the head to the high shoulder. And this is very good for female portraits. Now, the one thing you could swap around on this is the body into the female body into the main, but to teach you a simple way to differentiate between the light pose and the shadow pose is I will teach you this with the body into the fill.

Now the important thing about that is when you've got a little bit of fill, you're going to create a little bit more drama, a little bit more texture and a little bit more interest on the body section, especially on the clothes and the textures and the fibers. And typically the women will often dress very carefully. So that helps us to bring the clothes that was the men don't tend to be so fast with the men, we really want to bring out the face and features. So that's why we might use the light pose for the men and the shadow pose, mainly for the women. So let's go and have a look at some examples of that. Okay, so I've called this the female shadow pose to help us again to remember it's the shadow pose, we're going to call the female shadow pose, because that's where it creates the most drama.

So if we look with our bird's eye view, as you can see, we've got the main light shining on the subject. She's facing the fill light, so that means her body is in shadow. So that's why we call it the shadow pose because the body is facing the shadow. So let's go have a look now at how we're just positioning the body to get the best facial structure for our image. Now, like I said earlier, I would normally use the male stretch thing forward pose, but you can use this one as well. But the software doesn't allow me to bring that leg down.

So I'm not completely comfortable with that. If you refer to the male stretch things forward pose we mentioned earlier, this is very similar and it works in a similar way. So what we've got here is we've got the body facing into the fill light, the shoulders are angled, as you can see, but this time the head is tilted to the high shoulder and I would tilt this a little bit more it'd be a little bit stronger normally. But again, the software doesn't allow me to move the head that much. But you can see the head is tilted to the high shoulder. And what that means is, that is a very feminine pose that women naturally take So they will naturally lift their shoulder until the head a little bit.

And we're just taking that natural pose and bringing it into our portraiture. And this is then what it looks like. As you can see it's, it's soft, this feminine, and it's such a slight little change in difference. But remembering to put them into the shadow creates a little bit more texture across the front of the body. If you can remember these two poses, you are basically there. Now you can then vary them you could decide the female shadow pose you want to enter the main light Do you want to light up the front of the subject or the male pose you want to turn the body into the film light, but learn these two and then you'll soon start realizing that only a couple of slight changes is going to change the drama of the image.

But like I said earlier, once you've got these two poses, you're good to go with your portrait photo. This will work for nearly everything. This pose does not work very well with the head tilt to high shoulder for the males, so please remember that