Pose and position

My target audience questionnaire results revealed they prefer a long shot photo for the front cover.
Giving me a bigger variety of poses to choose from.

After researching poses I was surprised on how different poses have specific names, each of these are based on a central mid shot:

“The Prayers hands”  The “introspective” shot.

                                                                                                               "Gun hands"










“Jesus pose”


I have then selected 5 long shot poses that would be suitable for my characters and my genres.

1 -A simple and casual looking pose. Lots of variations are possible. As the model can experiment with hand positioning and try different head turns.

2- Another very simple and elegant pose. The model is turned slightly to the front, one hand in the front pockets and the other leaning on the waist with the head turned to the side keeping eye contact.

3-A sensual pose. By holding the hands above the head body curves are emphasized. And eye contact is kept.

            4-This pose would make the singer look like she is a fun, confident and different as this pose is not as common for singer to do. The singer to be able  succeed this pose would have to balance her body into one foot, play around with the arms and body angle. This pose gives an idea of energy and youth.

 5- This is pose is performed with one arm
behind the head and the on the hip with feet together.

Now I have tried a few of the poses:

After experimenting these poses I realised the ideal pose would have to review a confident, fun, dangerous and young, similar to pose number 4. To contrast with the reasons she had a break which are serious, mature and ordinary.
My target consumers also established from my questionnaire analyses that to make the cover shot stand out it would have to make a shot in movement.

Here are some poses I will look at to inspire for my photo shoot.

To inspire my shots I have watched a few videos of Coco Rocha she is a model who is famous for her jumping poses she leaps with energy and enthusiasm:

To achieve this my camera would have to be adjusted to a different setting so it can capture the movement as if it frozen in the air, for it I will need a DSLR camera which stands for Digital Single Lens Reflex. To gain a pixel sharp image the main thing I will need is a high shutter speed. However when using very high shutter speeds less light will allow the camera to capture and compose a nicely balanced image from. Therefore I will need to adjust the amount of aperture too allow more light through the lens while taking high speed photos.

• shutter speed 1/250
• aperture F5.6