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When you step into a lifestyle family session you need go-to poses and the ability to guide your families into genuine emotion and interactions, all while keeping the session under control. Self taught and 6 figure photographer, Elena S Blair, shares her top tips for emotive family posing as well as give you step by step instruction for some of her favorite family poses.
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50 responses to “How To Pose and Direct Lifestyle Family Photography with Elena S Blair | CreativeLive”
wow, the actual tips with real-time demo of them made the video so good. Thanks for sharing this!
Ah… pre corona photoshoots…
Really great walkthrough of the actual praxis of portraits
Amazing energy and skill! Thank you for sharing your insight!
Thank you, thank you so much, Elena!
This is very inspirational. I want to make this pictures now!
Awesome information
feeling over look
great ananlogy
I have my first (practice) family shoot in two weeks and I'm so nervous but this video really helped me out in terms of posing – thank you!! Do you have any recommendations in terms of how to connect with as well as direct clients during covid?
Your studio space is ridonculous! Love it!
what lens u used ?
I'd love to know how you get all that energy and enthusiasm both in your voice and general being, and is it essensial for family shoots? I'm a pretty calm human bean who's used to shooting cars and fashion style portraits in my own tempo, and the way you handle the family shoots both fascinates me and freaks me out at the same time! :-))
Wonderful !!!! Is there any video showing a similar thing for portraits of single person?
I come back to this every time I have a family shoot 🖤
This was very helpful as I have trouble engaging the children
What a fantastic video. "Breathe your child in". What a brilliant approach to get mom relaxed.
i love the lighting in the studio. Im also curious as to the camera exposure settings
Good techniques but pictures are all badly exposed. DO you even use your histogram??
Where did you get the backdrop with the light bulbs
Thank you so much for this video! I'm inspired quite a lot. You really spoke out the spirit I felt from the stunning family photos. Not how you want your works to look like, but how you want them to feel like.
That shutter is in pain.
Great. To capture better moments during motion, I'll probably play a song and ask them to dance to it.
Put FEELING into your work! Plus I Love the tip on letting the kids move and dance. Definitely run into high energy kids on a lot of family shoots. Great way to navigate that. Thanks for the tips!!
What lens you use in this video?
Were those phots edited? Seemed extremely contrasty.
What were your settings? 🙂
Beautiful! Def will try out ypur creative live! Btw, what lens are you using for these? Everything comes out so amazingly.
Thank you so much to share these great tips! I'm a family photographer base in New Jersey, definitely learn a lot from you!
Awesome
This was EXTREMELY helpful! Thank you!
thank you
I am not a fan of photographer who takes 1million shoots, hoping for few good ones and most of the photos is blur or one of the family member face is not shown/hidden, and she keeps asking about the kids need a break after 3 mins of photos ! just get the shoot done, good tips but the photos quality is poor,
aperture settings??
You're amazing!
How do you manage to get so many up close and all in focus shots being indoors and with no lights and with all the movement happening?
Remember watching this 5 months ago…forgot to subscribe….anyway fixed that today.
Be interested to know what settings your camera is on. Its interesting you manage to have no artificial light on an indoor shoot.
Loved your video! Thank you so much!!!
I’m not even just saying this but when you told mom to breathe her in and got that shot of the youngest one and mom, I teared up. It was such a beautiful moment in time that we never get back and I loved the result of mom “breathing her in”
My goodness thank you so, so much. You’re a beautiful gem for sharing this video!! I’m in tears of excitement as I prep mentally for a photoshoot today and tomorrow (and I ponder yesterday’s – busy season for me!). I’m definitely still in the learning process and insight, wisdom like yours is so appreciated and taken to heart. Thank you.
I really liked this video! So much so that I've gone and bought your class on Creative Live. Thank you for the video 😀
one word.. wow ! learnt so many things in one video. thanks.. subscribed for more !!
Absolutely adore this… great job and thank you!
Love your video..tq for sharing..
Thanks for the tips. I will incorporate them in my next shoot. Great video.
You must go through so many images. Love your perspective on the art of photography. Best to you
Thanks for the tips.
On average, what is the ratio between the actual number of photos you take and how many you keep in the end or even deliver to the client?
This was SOOOO helpful to me. Thank you so much! And the photos are absolutely gorgeous.
Ma, what lens did you use?
Nice…