Portrait Tips: What To Do With Hands

This short video by Lindsay Adler (part of a longer course on posing done for creativeLIVE) takes a look at what to do with man and woman’s hands when shooting portraits .

In many cases you will find that you talent doesn’t feel comfortable with his or her hands so your job as the photographer is to let them know what to do so you can get the best image. In the video Alder gives some of the dos and don’ts of hands when shooting portraitist.

We have covered posing in photography in many previous posts and you can find many of them under our photography posing tag as well as under the portraits section.

Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.