Males are possibly the hardest people to photograph in the world because they have no sense of what pose they should be pulling. Some men like to go with the ‘Hollywood’ pose – the pose they saw Leonardo Di Caprio’s face on the Oscar’s red carpet – and others are just that intimidated by the camera that they pull a pose which is somewhere in between happiness and dread. As a wedding photographer this can be a problem. When you photograph a wedding it is your job to make sure that every photo you take of a person at the wedding is a good one and something the wedding party can look back on in a couple of weeks and rejoice at their special day. If you have some silly man trying to pull a ‘blue steel’ pose at a wedding then this can be a very difficult job. But how do you change the pose of a man to make sure the wedding photos are the best they can be? Well it’s hard but like any man they can be trained, in this case trained not to fear the camera and not to try and look like a beautiful Hollywood actor. Both examples are not going to be good for wedding photographer.
Here are a few tips.Reassurance Although most men like to think and act like nothing fazes them when it comes to photographs a lot of them can be completely out of their depths. It’s like they’ve never seen a camera in their lives before! The best thing that you can do as a wedding photographers in Sydney with excellent pacakge for marraiges is to give them reassurance and talk them through the whole process. At the start just gently tell them what you are going to do and during the process of photographing them as part of the wedding try to take their mind off the process by asking them what they do or how they involved in the wedding.
ClothesAnother typical trait of men is the fact that they like being told what to do so as the wedding photographer make sure all the men have firm instructions for what they should be wearing and how they should look so they don’t get confused by the process. Left to their own devices you could have a nightmare scenario on your hands.
LieOnly a little white lie mind. As a wedding photographer it is your responsibility to get the best shots possible and the best way to do that is to get the subjects as relaxed as possible. One of the oldest tricks in the book is to tell the people that the first few photos are juts testers and this is often when some of the best photos are taken.