Photography - Individual & Family Posing - Live Sessions

Dramatically improve your portraits with these easy relaxed posing techniques. Flatter your subjects & they'll love you!

4.10 (439 reviews)
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Photography - Individual & Family Posing - Live Sessions
3,092
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3 hours
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Oct 2015
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$39.99
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What you will learn

Improve your portraits using these great live photo session posing tips

Easily create your own poses, once you understand the basic principles

Confidently pose individuals, couples and families, real people, not models

Learn to pose individuals, male and female

Learn to pose couples and young and older siblings

Learn to pose mum, dad and children

Learn to pose 'fuller figure' subjects

Learn to pose large family groups

Why take this course?

** Voted by students as one of Udemy's outstanding instructors of 2014 **

Follow me on live photo sessions with individuals, couples, 'fuller figure' subjects, young and older siblings and large and extended families and watch how I pose them to overcome their natural tendencies to sit or stand like statues and to get some great portraits.

  • Real life indoor and outdoor photo sessions
  • Warts and all posing i.e. some of them don't quite work, and I say why!
  • Mostly non-model real live people, like you and me,
  • Create beautiful family photos by getting your lovely subjects into more natural, relaxed and flattering positions..
  • Practice the easy steps in this course and it will pay huge dividends in your portraits
  • PDF crib sheets are available for most of lectures, keep them with you


Models aside, the majority of us are not aware of our natural and unconscious body positions and so we don't usually present ourselves as well as we might. For example, most of us tend not to be concerned with where or how we place our hands and arms, tilt our heads, or position our feet. This course shows how I handle that problem, and how I position and pose people to get great results.

Posing is a powerful skill that will transform your portraits, not only can you copy the ones demonstrated in the videos, but understanding the general basic dynamics of a good pose, will help you to create your own.

Each video has a short introduction and summary of the photo session that just took place, it's then followed by the live photo session.

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This is a brand new course so no reviews yet

Modesty almost forbids me publishing some comments about my teaching style, taken from reviews of my other two courses, but I overcame that, so here they are:-

Bernie is really easy to listen to, and his videos were really entertaining and kept you listening. (I also like his accent!)

Many online courses suffer from over prepared, monotonic boring voice overs but Bernie's style is a bit like having your mate round to show you how to do something. This even goes to leaving some bloopers in which makes it human and fun.

Bernie is a hoot! He knows his material, presents it well, and is witty to boot. It's a great combination in a teacher.

I love Bernie's approach. Such a great instructor,

Bernie is an excellent teacher and his enthusiasm for photography is contagious.

Bernie is a fantastic tutor,

Love it, love it, love it!!

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Reviews

Shari
March 17, 2023
I enjoyed this course, especially the video of posing Fuller figured people, because that is something I struggle with.
Mariam
July 16, 2022
I enjoyed the course. Learnt a lot about posing for the camera. I am leaving this course with a lot of knowledge about posing and hoping to use it when I am taking pictures.
Shelbie
May 28, 2021
Bernie is a great teacher and it is super helpful seeing the live sessions rather than just explaining what went into each photo. I would and probably will take more courses by him.
Zahra
April 15, 2021
it helped me identify some of the common and general mistakes we make while posing, without realizing them.
Eva
January 15, 2021
Not only does he body shame, his rhetoric is full of sexism, ablism, agism, and out-dated suggestions. I would not recommend this class to anyone. In the year 2021, surely we can all find ways to be more body positive in our speech and actions.
Debbie
December 22, 2016
This really gives you a different way of taking shots of family! I used a few and they came out great and the family was so happy..
Mike
November 19, 2016
I like the family photos where there is a group of people and how to place them, I would of liked it if the camera settings were shown, although the cute blonde in the family photos was so distracting I had to watch it twice. I think you should use her more often, She has my vote!
Steve
August 18, 2016
I find this course extremely helpful as a beginner photographer. The instructor not only shows poses but explains why they do or don't work.
Lars
May 30, 2016
Another awesome class from Bernie! I really find his stuff very useful and its presented in such a wonderful way. Great photographer and educator.
Karen
May 14, 2016
Great course. Lots of helpful tips and explanations. I have felt so completely uncomfortable with directing people to a pleasing pose, but I am off to put my new knowledge to practice. Thank you Bernie for sharing your techniques in a kind and thoroughly enjoyable way!
Judy
May 10, 2016
It would be even better if Bernie would go over the settings he used when taking each picture. Loved the poses!
Lloyd
April 8, 2016
The instructor made each topic simple and understanding. He provided illustrations rather than just talking points. He also was able to provide sufficient details for each subject in 3 to 8 minutes sessions.
Lacey
March 29, 2016
I love these tips!! Its making me feel so much more confident before I do my first family photo session!
David
March 22, 2016
Bernie Raffe always provides high quality and just plane fun instructional videos. It is impossible not to learn about photography techniques and, just as important, how fun taking pictures can be.
John
March 8, 2016
I am a (senior) beginner and this level and approach is both fun and encouraging. Right away I don't have to think and act like a professional. I just need to start with everyone getting comfortable, relaxed, and 'focused' on getting interesting shots.

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