One of the biggest challenges I always face and I know many other photos face as well is posing. And when I say posing I'm not talking about traditional posing techniques here, I'm talking a cool modern poses to make sure we're giving our clients a great mix of imagery. So before a session I would always go back through all my photos in my little inspiration folder and try to fix the poses I liked and wanted to try during my session into my memory. Well time after time when I would start shooting my mind would just go blank... and they would all vanish... or I just couldn't figure out how the hell they had actually gotten a certain pose to look natural and not really really uncomfortable.
Then I had my epiphany!!! Which was that I own an Ipod! I quickly sat down one day and organized all the photos in my inspiration folder into categories: men, women, couples and loaded them all up onto the photos section of my Ipod touch! Can you see why this is so awesome!? People make flip books you can buy, playing cards, flash card whatever, they sell it for you to buy with posing ideas, but this way you can take all you favorite images that you like and put them in a small portable device way better than carrying around a large flipbook FOR FREE... did I mention the part where it is FREE! (well that is if you already have an Ipod or Iphone, and if not you aren't up to date with modern technology and you should buy one anyway lol...) So now, I have my hubby/assistant standing by with the Ipod and when he sees me floundering for different posing ideas, he just has to pull out the Ipod, flip to the appropriate sections, and jump in with a posing idea to help me out. Works so so so well!
Just thought I'd share!
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