There are two main poses that we need to concern ourselves with. One of them's a light pose, and one of them is the next pose we're going to show you in a moment. But essentially, if you have these two poses in your repertoire, when you start shooting your subjects, when you start taking images of your subject, you're gonna have a basis for a nice portrait every single time. Now, once you've got these, you can start developing different poses and styles from this, but this is a great base. I use this all the time, when I'm taking corporate portraits and I've got to work quickly. This is my go to every time so I'm gonna show you the two versions that are really going to help you and they're very simple to do.

The light pose, body into main, tilt the shoulders, tilt, head to low shoulder and it's very, very good for male portraits. If you're doing a male portrait. This is where you start. So let's go Have a look at the light pose. So this is what's known as the male light pose. It's called the light pose because he's facing his body into the main light.

So we're lighting his body. So the main light is coming in and it's lighting up the front of his body. So let's have a look at this pose. What have we got? He's facing into that light, like we suggested. Now, you'll notice his elbow is resting on his knee, and we're pushing him forward.

Now, where it's really important to understand is look at the shoulders here, okay? The shoulder is dipping to this side, he's got a raise shoulder, and a dip shoulder. What we want him to do with the men especially is tilt his head ever slightly towards the dipped shoulder. We bring his elbows forward on his knee. And then we have him tilt his head ever slightly. into the dipped shoulder.

And then when we look at the shot now, we can see it's quite strong, it's quite compelling. We could have had him looking straight at the main light and had a two thirds view. In this instance, we've done a full face shot, and he's looking straight to camera. The only other thing I would have done on this possibly is drop the chin a little bit more, his eyes are shooting through the eyebrows, and he's just looking for a little bit more on the eyebrows. Fortunately, the software didn't allow me to model the subject that closely, but you can see even in this, it's very strong, it's dramatic, and it's very male. Now, this does also work.

If you have a female who is a larger lady, you can use this with them as well. And you can use this with the women but it works particularly well with males then with large ladies, and then after that if you have a woman who maybe he's got strong character, maybe a corporate portrait, and you want to imply a little bit strength, we would go through this. But this is essentially everything you need then to get going. So let's just recap what we've done with face the body into the mainline. we've pushed everything forward. Then we've tilted the head to the lower right shoulder so the shoulders been angled and we've tilted the head that way a little bit.

So why don't we want to drop the chin a little bit and have him looking through his eyebrows just to touch as we explained earlier, that is everything you need to get going with your male portrait.