Whether you want to pose people for a family photo or are trying to take a massive crowd shot, you will quickly discover that whenever you need to pose people, making sure everyone is smiling can be a challenge. In desperation you might choose to turn to a photographer who can help you and those in the photo pose, but how do you pick the best ones? 

While you can look at the photos the photographer has on their website and make your pick that way, here are a few things that you can look out for to separate the beginners from the professionals, and then you can pick the best photographer for your needs.

Beginners Tend To Shoot Photos Without Fuss

Anyone can take a selfie or snap a picture, and that means that a lot of people want to be photographers. However, the beginner photographers follow some bad habits that most people will see a mile away. Often their photos will just be people standing or posing however they want, and while those photos can be easy and fun, they are also very easy to spot and lack some real professionalism.

However, professional photos will be posed to take the best advantage of the people in the photos and the environment they are in. Professional photographers will move and manipulate every single body part of the people in their photos to make them pop and also look less wooden. From pushing the shoulders down to angling the chin, professionals know a lot of ways to make the photographs pop and look unique without having to do a lot.

Professionals Will Fix Up The Hair And Clothes

While beginners might get the hair out of their subject’s eyes and maybe fix a wrinkled piece of clothing, professionals have an eye for the entire body of the people in the photograph. If something is wrong with your hair, clothes, eyes, or smile, they will tell you about it and will do everything they can to stop the photos from looking fake and wooden.

They will be very intentional with your hair, how your clothes look, what you are looking at, and what your limbs are doing. If you don’t want to have a stiff photo with some wide smiles attached to it, then go with some professional photographers.

Camera Angles Show The Difference

While many beginner photographers know that they can manipulate the distance of the photos to get close up and far away shots, they don’t do much more than that. However, professional photographers know how to take advantage of the poses with camera angles, and those photos will look good in Mixbook! 

For example, shooting your model from below can make them look longer and bigger, and having a slightly higher angle can direct the eye to the model and it can be very slimming. There are dozens of camera angles and lots of effects that those camera angles can have on the people in the photo, and only a professional is going to be able to understand the benefit that camera angles can give your photos.

Professionals Can Put You At Ease

Finally, it can be very hard for anyone to truly ‘loosen up’ and smile for a photo. But a professional photographer will be able to put you at ease and make sure that you and your pose is perfectly natural. So if you want to hire a professional for your next portrait, you just need to look for these signs when you make your hire, and then pose for the camera to get the perfect picture!