{"id":8345,"date":"2016-10-31T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nebulaluben.com\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2024-04-19T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:15:43","slug":"photography-for-cosplayers-vi-posing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nebulaluben.com\/en\/photography-for-cosplayers-vi-posing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography for cosplayers (VI): Posing tips."},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning\/evening\/night everybody! And welcome to another photography tutorial by your friend Nebula. Today we’re gonna put ourselves in front of the camera and do some posing.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m an awful model. I don’t know how to pose and I usually have a hard time when experienced photographers ask me to be spontaneous. The most that I can do is putting my hands on the hips and giving a facial expression that makes me look like a sentient being. I’ve been making costumes for 8 years and I still find posing really difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the thing is: I’m a costume maker, not an actress!!! Comes out I put on the things I make, but that doesn’t mean I’m a model.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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But I’m really interested in looking decent in cosplay pictures, I like to look cool during the milliseconds the lights are flashing the heck of my person and, to achieve that I’ve learnt some tricks and resources that help me giving my best look.<\/span><\/p>\n

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– Character reference Images.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, it’s so obvious I feel a little embarrased I’m telling this to you but it’s necessary. I always take with me pictures of the characters in different poses, characteristic gestures and game scenes to take them as a refference during the photo shooting. This helps me a lot and helps the photographer too to know what I want. It’s much easier to bring pictures than to explain it with words.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reference poses.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As I kind of crash everytime someone asks me for posing, I try to look for posing references that match my character. I always end up scrolling trough Senshistock in Deviantart<\/a>, that is our possing lord and saviour. They have a little of everything: posing with weapons, sitting, lying, jumping, flying, with musical instruments, making magic, pin up style, alone, in pairs… It’s amazing! Everytime I have a photo shoot I look there for ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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– Facial expression.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the hardest part for me. Posing with my body is complicated enough and then the face comes. Time ago I watched this video that is super good and explanatory on looking like a confident human being by squinching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back then I used to think that opening my eyes a lot, like defying the flashlight, was cool but it made me look like a scarred little bunny. Squinching changed my life, my dear friends: I got a job, I got a boyfriend and I started cooking better.<\/span><\/p>\n