Posing & Working with Dancers

In this video, Rachel delves deeper into Posing and Working with dancers, offering advice on how to convert what looks good in 3D into 2D.

Posing & Working with Dancers

Tutorial Description

There’s nothing better than walking away from a shoot and having your dancer say ‘I didn’t know I could look that good’, or ‘We have so many great shots!’. Dancers are notoriously picky with their images, and for good reason, it’s taken them years to perfect their technique. In this video, we help photographers learn how to give direction and corrections to the dancers and work with them to achieve the best results that everyone can be happy with.

In this video, we discuss:

Planning the flow of your shoot
Technique and Posing
Ins and Outs of Different Genres of Dance
Posing: Converting What Looks Good in 3D into 2D

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