Directing Models for Photography
The broken pose and the funny pose
A course by Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago) , Photographer
Joined December 2016
About the video: The broken pose and the funny pose
Overview
“This lesson is also divided into two moments. In the first one I will show you a session using broken poses, which have great application in the world of fashion photography, advertising and artistic photography. The second is a session looking for spontaneous and funny poses, which also has application in advertising, photography of stock , life style and casual portrait.”
In this video lesson Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago) addresses the topic: The broken pose and the funny pose, 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 6 THE BROKEN DOLL AND FUN POSES We've made it to the last lesson in our course, in which we'll allow ourselves break some rules that we've laid out in the previous lessons. We'll talk about the broken doll pose and the fun pose. It's a trend that we see more and more in advertising, social media, and stores, in which the model strikes somewhat exaggerated and even careless poses. Everything we've said about clothing, proportions, gestures, gaze... We can allow ourselves to be more creative and take risks here. We have Nash here to help us with the broken doll pose. We've given her a sl...”
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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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