Directing Models for Photography
Abdomen, waist, hip and back
A course by Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago) , Photographer
Joined December 2016
About the video: Abdomen, waist, hip and back
Overview
“We will approach the parts of the body that undoubtedly generate greater concern in people when being photographed: the abdomen, the waist and the hip. The back also requires taking care of various details that we will review in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago) addresses the topic: Abdomen, waist, hip and back, which is part of the Domestika online course: Directing Models for Photography. Learn the art of directing people for your fashion photographs and portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“UNIT 4 ABDOMEN, WAIST, HIPS, AND BACK In this lesson, we'll keep talking about the torso, but this time, about the abdomen, back, waist, and hips. We'll also look at how the dimensions of those body parts don't matter as much as how we manipulate the proportions to get a harmonious figure in a photograph. I'll show you lots of examples on the computer of mistakes we should avoid, as well as tips that will help you to get better photographs of these body parts. In this lesson, we'll talk about the torso again, but this time, about the abdomen, back, and hips. We already talked about contrapp...”
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Course summary for: Directing Models for Photography
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Category
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Areas
Fashion Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography

Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago)
A course by Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago)
Eduardo Gómez Muñoz, more commonly known as Alter Imago, has been a professional photographer for 14 years. Although he started as a rock band photographer, he has specialized in portrait and artistic photography, digital retouching, photo manipulation, and advertising photography.
Since 2015 he has regularly published on his YouTube channel 'Alter Imago fotografía', where he has 90,000 subscribers and more than 36 million minutes of viewing. He has won the silver medal at the Photography World Cup in Sydney (Australia) in 2018 in the digital illustration category, and the Nation Awards in Dublin (Ireland).
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