One of my buddies is a club promoter who has girls wear merch for his company and takes pretty mid photos with his phone.
I think I could do a better job with my camera and selfie ring lights, told him so, and he said to roll with him on Wednesday.
Where can I learn how photographing women works? I feel like there is an etiquette I don’t know and the special only trick I know is shooting from below the waistline - which I learned from a Brazilian dude.
Like, I just straight-up tell my girlfriend “stick your butt out” or “do a sexy pose”, but I feel like that’s probably unprofessional cause I would never imagine my anime cosplay photographer buddy doing that.
The only photographer commands I know are:"Turn your chin [direction]"and “Turn your hip towards me”
I was given, “Turn your hip towards me”, by a dude I know who throws photoshoots to replace what I normally tell my girlfriend. He made it sound like it’s the only move I need and explained that the models know more about posing than I do.
I also watched a YouTube video from a portrait lady, and she said you can tell people to, “sit comfortably”. I don’t know if that’s good for what we’re doing, though.
“Guy with a camera”. Commonly used for “photographers” whose main goal is tricking women into posing with as little clothing as possible for pictures. Generally there is also a very low skill and knowledge level implied. Basically a creepy dude who bought and expensive (looking) camera in order to get women to undress.