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Posing Like A Pro: The Ultimate Posing Flow! Part 2 (Udemy.com)

From Headshots To Fashion - Create Your Best Portrait Photography Ever and Flow Through Your Photo Shoot With Ease!

Created by: Sandy Dee

Last updated November 2018

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What you will learn

  • Pose models and clients - females, males, and couples.
  • Quickly create different styles to offer more variety and enhanced sales: from headshots, beauty, dreamy, fashion, edgy, and more
  • Understand standing vs sitting poses
  • Know which techniques help to slim bigger clients
  • Get creative with concepts such as my trademark ‘lying on the floor’ setup
  • Modify your communication style for experienced models vs regular clients
  • Create an amazing experience and have fun while still getting the shot

How it compares

Against the other 275 rated Udemy courses in Photography on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 80% of them
  • Reviews258#132 of 276 by number of reviews
  • Length5.9 hourslonger than 82% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2018earlier than 77% of them

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Course Description

Featured Review:

"It was definitely a good match. I am trying to set up my own home studio and it is the second course I take with her. I love how clearly she explain things with German accent and easy going smiling kind manners. I am learning a lot cause when I don't have a professional model but a couple, or a mum or kids or families, it is not so easy for me to pose them :) this course helps to still get the images you want" - Alexandra Grippa


Hi and Welcome to our course The Ultimate Posing Flow For Portrait Photographers!

This is Part 2 of our posing series "Posing Like A Pro" - join us in the photography studio for live sessions where we put everything you learned in Part 1 into practice! Or if you already have a little experience, then jump right in here.

BONUS: Includes PDF sheets with almost 1500 poses for you to download and take to your shoots! Also: Closed Captions are available!

In our photo studio we have led over 50 photography workshops so far, specializing in creating conceptual photoshoots. And knowing how to pose a model or client is a big part of a successful shoot. I realized that most of my students were really savvy about photography techniques and new technology but started to freeze when they had to pose the model.

One of the most important skills that you will need to develop as a portrait photographer is being able to direct your subjects into the right pose. It will make your model or client feel natural, and your photography session will flow.

At the end of this course, you will know how to pose your clients and models for the most flattering pictures. If you watched my tutorial ‘posing like a pro’ or if you have already learned the foundations of posing for portrait photography,  this course takes those lessons even further by bringing you into my studio where you can watch how I put it all together into a real shoot to create the ‘posing flow’.

To give you a real life experience, I will show you how I work with a model versus a couple that never stood in front of the camera. None of the shoots are rehearsed with the exception that I briefed our model Rebecca to bring some different wardrobe items for variety. This means you will see realistic posing problems and questions that your client or model might have, and how I communicate with them to bring them into the right pose.

The entire tutorial is shot from my point of view, so you are more than just a fly on the wall - you see everything almost exactly as if you were behind the camera! Each time I take a shot, the image is overlaid so you can see the result straight away. There is no post production on them - they are ‘SOOC’ - straight out of camera with the exception that they are cropped in ACR. Sometimes I’ve also adjusted the white balance because different styles of image look best when they are warmer or cooler in tone.

In this course you will learn:

  • How to pose models and clients - females, males, and couples.

  • Standing vs sitting poses, and tips for slimming bigger clients

  • How to quickly create different styles to offer more variety and enhanced sales: from headshots, beauty, dreamy, fashion, edgy, and more.

  • Getting creative with concepts such as my trademark ‘lying on the floor’ setup

  • How to modify your communication style for experienced models vs regular clients

  • How to create an amazing experience and have fun while still getting the shot

One point to keep in mind as I will be covering a lot of detail that may seem impossible to get right all the time: don’t worry about the perfect pose, because it’s hard even for “super-pros” to achieve a “100%” perfect result - and if in doubt it’s always ‘Emotions Over Posing”. However if you are interested in knowing why a client maybe didn’t buy certain images due to things they didn’t like about themselves then our tutorial will tell you all about how you can best flatter your client.

This course is for the beginner to intermediate portrait photographer who is looking for a practical hands on approach to learning how to create a posing flow so that they will never run out of ideas again!

So if you are interested in seeing me in action, go ahead and watch some previews! Or if you want to develop your posing flow to the highest standard: Enroll now and let’s get started in creating your best pictures ever! See you soon!

P.S : Closed Captions are available, so you can either listen or read (or both) to my posing instructions! Have fun!

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Instructor Details

Sandy Dee

Sandy is originally from Germany and studied Photography in London, where she earned a Diploma in Professional Photography. Following her passion for creative conceptual portrait photography, she moved to San Jose, California where she runs stylized portrait workshops, and wrote the book 'Posing Like A Pro' which covers all aspects of posing for the contemporary photographer.

Sandy loves teaching and helping other artists to reach new levels in their technique and creativity! New In 2021: Sandy now also teaches paper crafting. No matter if you want to learn photography, portraiture, photoshop, creating backdrops on a budget, paper crafting, card making, mixed media....Sandy has a class for you. Happy Shooting and Happy Crafting!

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Reviews

4.7

258 ratings on Udemy

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By Lester M. Chambers on 10/3/2023

This is a excellent course on posing. The instructor took her time and really showed numerous examples of poses that you can utilize for your clients. Note: This is a very thorough course. Take the time to review each section and go back to the sections that interest you the most. I enjoyed the bonus section as it touched on fixes to white and black backgrounds. This is a great resource to have for posing!

By Tony Chapman on 1/1/2022

The explanations are easy to understand and the directions from photographer to model are visual and audible, easy to follow and a skill I hope to become better at. I have read several books and looked at many posing cards, to see real life demonstrations is helping me understand the photographer / model relationship.

By Samuel on 5/22/2020

It's really good to see & hear the photographer (Sandy) in action and listen to her giving constant directions to her clients. I originally thought that by just ~ 'Watching her do her thang!' ~ That, that would've been a complete waste of time! However, now having watched & listened to her, I can honestly say that yes, you soon get used to it and not only that but it gives you a much better idea of how we should be interacting with our model.

By Scott CJ McKelvie on 3/8/2020

Very informative with a lot of great examples seeing first hand how couples are shot and even a model, showing the contrasting difference and the possibilities of poses that show what to do and what not to do. The course thus far has been fantastic and already feel a lot more knowledgeable on the subject than when I began the course material.

By Alexandra Grippa on 2/18/2019

It was definitely a good match. I am trying to set up my own home studio and it is the second course I take with her. I love how clearly she explain things with German accent and easy going smiling kind manners. I am learning a lot cause when I don't have a professional model but a couple, or a mum or kids or families, it is not so easy for me to pose them :) this course helps to still get the images you want

By Angela Ostlund on 2/5/2019

I really enjoyed this course. I watched the first part of Posing Like a Pro, which gave a lot of information but did not really show much in practice (if you do not know much about posing, this first part is essential to watch first). This course is all about putting it all together and using that information in a hands-on way. I am a beginner at studio photography, but have watched a lot of tutorials and webinars about posing, so I knew a fair amount already (conceptually anyway). This course was incredibly useful to me because I could watch these concepts in practice to help cement it all in my brain. Reading about posing and watching people talk about it is not the same as watching the shoot in action. I loved the creative shots too (the window shots and the ones with the colored gels).

By Renee Tamara Pérez Cordero on 1/19/2019

I was expecting examples of shooting, so that is great. I like Sandy personality, sometimes as we photo-shoot someone we forget to smile, to make our customer feel relaxed, comfortable, not nervous. So far, I am learning a lot about different poses and the things I need to control during headshot. Thanks!

By William Moores on 12/26/2018

Love the onsite in-studio aspect of this - Sandy gets right into the thick of things with models, explaining the setup, backgrounds and settings. Very interactive and engaging already. I especially like how she talks to the camera and then directs the model into the pose to take the shot. Great!

By Ivan Sunden on 6/20/2018

Hands on in-the-studio tutorials showing exactly how to pose different types of model. I like how the instructor combines theory and then following it up with practical use cases. Inspiring me to get going in the studio. I also watched the posing like a pro course and reference ebook which is a great companion to this course.

By Rebecca Ybarra on 12/1/2017

Sandy is brilliant! Not only is she knowledgeable about what she is saying in detail, but she keeps it fun, insightful and imaginative. I appreciate how organized she is giving many examples, specific notes, and wonderful visuals matched to her instruction. I loved the big parts to the course yes, but the small matter to. She was clear, witty, passionate, not to mention she had great props and spent time on her displays and themes. It is always a learning experience with Sandy!

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