Hyde - The Design Aglow posing guide for wedding photography: 100 modern ideas for photographing engagements, brides, wedding couples, and wedding parties

Copyright 2013 by Lena Hyde

Photograph on by Tanja Lippert

Photograph on by Heidi Geldhauser with Our Labor of Love Photography

Photograph on by Anna Kuperberg

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hyde, Lena.
The Design Aglow posing guide for wedding photography : 100 modern ideas for photographing engagements, brides, wedding couples, and wedding parties / Lena Hyde.First edition.
pages cm
Includes index.
1. Wedding photography. 2. Portrait photographyPosing. I. Title. II. Title: Posing guide to wedding photography.
TR819.H93 2013
778.993925dc23

2012042972

eBook ISBN: 978-0-385-34479-1
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-385-34478-4

Text design by La Tricia Watford

Photographs by Kat Braman, Mike Belschner, Jesse and Whitney Chamberlin, Heidi Geldhauser, Jen Huang, Paul and Mecheal Johnson, Anna Kuperberg, Lisa Lefkowitz, Tanja Lippert, Jessica Lorren, KT Merry, Elizabeth Messina, Bobbi and Mike Sheridan, and Caroline Winata

Cover design by La Tricia Watford

Cover photograph by Elizabeth Messina Photography

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To the hardworking men and women in the photography industry who maintain the standard of excellence we believe in, promote, and stand by.

Your dedication to capturing and preserving moments of joy, growth, and union aids in cataloguing a visual narrative of the worlds love stories that will live well beyond this lifetime.

We are here with you, to grow, learn, and advance the pursuit of the fine art of wedding photography.

Thank you for helping to keep photography a prestigious and admirable art form.

Thank you for believing in the beauty of love.

Thank you for continuing to inspire us.

All our best,
Design Aglow

Photo by KT Merry

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without ever talking.

Chinese proverb

At Design Aglow, we have dedicated ourselves to providing tools for flawless presentation, maximum efficiency, and professional success in a visually stunning format since 2006. Our goals: to enhance your wedding and portrait photography, to save you time, to help you increase your sales, and to take your success to a higher level.

This book of beautiful portrait poses for weddings features four chapters of innovative, inspiring, and natural posing ideas for photographing engagements, brides, brides and grooms, and wedding parties at their best. In each chapter you will also find tips for directing your subjects into the poses, helpful lighting information, important technical facts, and additional portrait ideas from the same setupsall from the best photographers in the industry, all presented in a light, conversational tone.

We recommend you use this helpful book in two ways: first, as an easy-to-transport visual guide for inspiration at your sessions; and second, in the studio or at home as a study guide for concepts and techniques to create more innovative portraits.

By following the techniques and tips covered here, you will soon discover how to add emotion and style to your portraits, leading to stunning results you will enjoy right away and that clients will value forever.

We invite you to explore, to expand your creativity, and, most of all, to become inspired by this wide range of simple yet exciting ideas.

Come create fresh, modern, and extraordinary portraiture with us.

Design Aglow

Photo by KT Merry

Photo by KT Merry

Engagement photos are an opportunity for your betrothed clients to become more comfortable in front of your camera. This premarital session gives you the chance to showcase the couples romance in a more casual setting while also creating images for their wedding sign-in book, thank-you cards, and wall portraits (as well as save-the-date cards and invitations, when captured early enough). These portraits also add another dimension to wedding albums, chronicling the couples story from their engagement to the big day. Best of all, couples will always remember these special, quiet moments away from the throngs of loved ones and friends.

When photographing couples in love, embrace your multipurpose role as not only artist and documentarian but also location scout and fashion coach. Recommend professional hair and makeup before the session for flawless, lens-ready looks that also allow these vendors prewedding experience with their clients. When scouting locations, think about posing your subjects in front of their future wedding venue, where they first met, or where he proposed.