How Many Poses in your Average Senior Session

How many poses / setups do you normally work in your senior sessions?

I would also like to know this... my senior sessions dont come out with enough poses and different shots.. i need more poses.

Are you saying you need to learn poses, or you know them and just need to do more poses?

If you need posing ideas, go thru THIS thread and make a cheat sheet of the poses you like, then re-create them with your seniors.

THIS is a video that shows a great way to get several different shots from just a few poses. It's a wedding video, but the principle is the same.

Here is a page from my posing and lighting book showing four poses on one prop. Had I slipped another background behind her it would have added some variety. As you can see by simply rearranging the hands, legs and feet you can get a number of differnt looks from one basic pose.

Benji

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My last session had 45 individual poses in probably 30 setups as proofs. It's easy to get a lot of variety once you've done a few. They only get 3 of those in their package, but you can't upsell what you don't have.

mattograph wrote in post #12541855
How many poses / setups do you normally work in your senior sessions?

I guess I'm looking at poses and setups as two different things, and I don't really know which you mean.

A change of "pose" might be as simple as legs crossed in one and legs uncrossed in the other. For me, a change of "setup" means props, background, and lighting have changed.

I will probably have only four or five "setups" in an hour session. Within a setup, I may have a variable number of poses, from which I'll only select a couple of the best poses to show.