A posing-prompt guide for beginner photographers shooting people
Asked for by a beginner on r/photography · original source
New photographers often freeze when asked to direct a couple or group. A phone-friendly library of poses with plain-language cues to say aloud, filterable by number of people and setting, would help. Users can save favorites for a shoot.
For builders: a suggested starting point
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The weekend plan
A rough weekend-sized plan to help you start. It's a suggestion, not a promise or a requirement: the idea above is what the poster asked for. Change anything. About the steward
- Done for one weekend
- A phone-friendly library of poses, each with a short cue to say out loud, that you can filter by number of people and setting.
- Suggested shape
- Phone-first web app
- In scope
- Start with a small set of poses (a dozen or so is plenty to show the filters), each with a name, a simple sketch or description, and one or two plain cues to say aloud. Use your own drawings or photos, or images you have the rights to use.
- Filter by number of people (one, a couple, a group) and by setting (for example indoors or outdoors).
- Save favorite poses for an upcoming shoot, kept on the phone.
- Big, readable cards that are easy to use one-handed during a shoot.
- Optional, if there's time
- Grow the library to 30 to 50 poses.
- Several named favorites lists, one per shoot.
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