yesterday i drove for two hours to go to a photography seminar by david ziser. he's a wedding photographer from cleveland, ohio. his seminar was pretty solid, the first half was all photography technique, and the second half all marketing. i was more interested in his marketing style than his photography, but i enjoyed everything, he really was pimping things on every level possible, which is a positive attribute, in my opinion.
anyways. one of his talking points was that most of the flood of photographers to the recent market don't know the classical portrait poses, and that these poses are classics for the single reason that they work.
so i figured i'd practice my classics a bit here. up there you have a full-face, a three quarters view, and a profile. i threw the raw pictures into a couple of pieces of software ziser recommended highly last night, first nik effects silver, and then lumapix's fotofusion for the book picture-in-a-picture feel.
it was difficult to nail the poses since i was taking my own pictures, but i think i got pretty close. maybe the three quarters view is a little off. i used one sb-28 into an umbrella high camera left. set up a loop light pattern for the first two, and just a 90 degree off for the profile.
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