Hi lovely friends thanks for coming back and today I wanna share to you about classic couple photoshoot poses that love by everyone. This pose will be so fast, nice, and easy to do even you are a newbie photographer or just doing it for taking your friend’s portrait.
So my name is Bima and thank you for stumble upon my blog because here I’m gonna share everything about wedding and portrait photography. Having a classic pose is my favourite set no matter where I host a photo session, it can be portrait, wedding, engagement, or pre wedding. I know that sometimes I improvise to get a nice pose but having a classic setting will seems so nice both for my portfolio and surely for the couple that I had.
Before I share about posing in this story so I’m gonna give you some introduction about preparing your photo shoot, it will be so easy for everyone who get used to it but if you just starting your photographer career than it gonna be a nightmare, and yes I ever feel this situation too few years ago when I just begin my company.
What to Do Before You Hosting a Photoshoot
Dealing is just a dealing so if you already got a couple to shoot on your studio’s list than the next thing that you must do is planning your photo session. I’m going to make it simple so here are 3 things to do that I will do before hosting a photoshoot:
1 – Choosing the Location
Location is the first thing that you must think, here you can give some suggestion or asking your couple about their dream location that they want to visit. If you and your couple living in the same area and you guys got several options than that was great and you can choose around 3 different locations for a whole day session that easy to visit.
When I serve a winter photo shoot in Hong Kong few years ago than I spend almost 10 hours to sightseeing around and we visit up to 5 locations that we explore within 45 to 60 minutes for each. If you ever go to Hong Kong than you will know these places such as Chun Yeung Street Wet Market, Wong Tai Shin Temple, Canton Rd, Causeway Bay, and end up in the Avenue of Stars and yes I doing some survey for those locations a day before the session.
If you doing an overseas photo shoot like me and you guys choosing a downtown location like Hong Kong, Japan, or any metropolis city renting a car with driver is your highest priority. But if you want to feel more relax than 3 locations is quite enough because you don’t gonna feel so rush and you can spend over than an hour on each location, trust me 60 minutes seems to belong but if you enjoying your photoshoot than it feels like just 15 minutes.
2 – Set Your Wardrobe
Having such awesome wardrobe is a priority especially if you shoot for important session like wedding or engagement. In other case you also can set a nice and casual wardrobe if you just shooting for portrait but make sure all the clothes will fit and looks so nice between one couple to the another.
When I shooting for wedding in Bali Indonesia than actually I only have an hour to do post wedding photoshoot after the ceremony, actually this is the only time that the wedding planner gave to me when my couple’s family is relaxing for cocktail and there is plenty of time before my couple having a touch up for dinner and party.
Look at the picture above, my couple has a formal blessing ceremony at church around Kuta beach but I have an hour to shoot before they having a night part which I know they only use shirt, trousers, and simple dress. So what I do is posing my couple as simple as I can so it will fit with their clothes that also so casual.
3 – Maintain Your Time Seriously
Make sure you got your watch during the photoshoot or asking somebody else who belong to your time keeper or assistant to remind you if the time is up. I know the feeling when you arrive in one good location and you guys feel that the ambiance is so nice and your couple love those place so much till you gonna forget about time management.
2 hours is nothing on those such beautiful location but if you already have a plan than you gonna crash all of them. In my business, my wife, Nina, do this task for me so I will shooting with an enjoy but I will stay aware if she remind me about the time. I must obey for that rule for sure because we already set the plan and my couple will follow too.
How to Do Classic Couple Photoshoot Poses Easily
Now we get back to the main topic about how to do classic couple photoshoot poses, down here I’m gonna give you with some example from my previous photo session and I will describe one by one and how I do it easily so all of the result will looks so natural but still have an elegance style.
1 – From the Wedding of Jasmine and Kevan in Bali – Indonesia
My couple Jasmine and Kevan is coming from Singapore and we just meet in a nice bistro around Raffles Place and 6 months later we meet each other in Bali for wedding celebration, now look at their picture below,
I shoot this scene on Patra Bali Resort, it’s a nice beach-front hotel which has giant coral rock that we can use for photoshoot. So in this frame I ask my couple to walk up and I accompany them from behind than I want their got a memory about how beautiful the sunset is on this place. So I ask Kevan to hug Jasmine so tight with the close eyes sure so I hope they can feel their love each other while I push my camera shutter.
Almost in every session that I have, I always do this classic couple photoshoot poses right away because it looks so natural especially when I had beautiful background scene to make this frame better. I surely that you guys can do this pose easily cause all you need to do is just asking your couple to hug each other, close their eyes, and give a little smile to make a great impression.
Now you can see Jasmine and Kevan’s complete gallery too
2 – From the Pre Wedding of Joanna and Angga in Ancol Beach, Jakarta – Indonesia
I met this lovely couple in my hometown, Yogyakarta, and shooting for their pre wedding in Jakarta, the most busy city in Indonesia. I don’t want to shoot in the downtown because situation will so hectic and pollution are everywhere. So we decide to go to the beach in the north that called Ancol which actually a lovely beach that I always visiting during my childhood life.
Look at the picture above, so natural and so nice even they see it in the next decades. What I want is taking a simple scene that still telling how gorgeous my couple is so I asking the groom to release his suit and hold it on the left hand while the bride is put her hand on it.
Groom is just sitting on the wooden fence while the bride is standing right in front of him so generally it is really simple and you can do this scene no matter where you are and you can ask your couple into different location. Now let see the background that I have, here I got beautiful sunset scene with a yellow sparkling water on it but imagine if you got no beach but there is a lake or mountain around you than you still can do this scene too.
Truly an easy couple photoshoot poses that you can do no matter who you are and it’s extremely look so gorgeous on the wedding album too. Now you can see Joanna and Angga’s gallery to give you full impression about my session.
3 – From the Pre Wedding of Billy and Dickie Ma in Maldives
It’s a destination photoshoot actually when I receive an enquiry from humble Hong Kong couple named Billy and Dickie who asking me to fly to such amazing country called Maldives. So what we plan on this photoshoot is just stick in the island because we don’t have any transportation to go out and this 2 km island come with great resort and landscape for sure.
We stay in Lux Maldives and we simple exploring the resort as well and got beautiful couple photoshoot poses that will blown everybody’s mind.
Those table set behind my couple is to for them but some other are asking the hotel’s staff to prepare for romantic dinner in the beach and since they’re not coming yet because it was still 4 pm so I pose my couple right in front of the dinner set and posing them so simple.
I ask the groom to face on me while his right hand is holding his bride’s back and at the same time I ask the bride to kiss the groom on the cheek, so pretty simple and I know everybody can do it even you’re not in this such wonderful place.
Now you can see Billy and Dickie’s pre wedding gallery too!
My Last Words,
I hope you got an inspiration from these few example about how to do classic couple photoshoot poses that everyone will love for sure. So in every session that you got, you must stay relax and enjoying the process. Don’t be too rush even if you got this situation than I suggest you to reduce the location or hours.
I know that this might be your first time to know me but if you want to know my story about how I develop my studio from scratch while serving traditional wedding till I able to shoot for worldwide market than you can read my true story on my ebook called “Wedding Photographer Nightmare”
So lets keep in touch and if you want to keep getting my sharing about photography business than you could stumble upon on Photographer information page which I share everything that I know on it. Last thank you again for coming and read my opinion about running photography business and surely love to meet you here I hope God bless you all with your business.
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