Boudoir Photography How To

We often turn to Los Angeles-based pro photographer Michael Sasser’s YouTube channel for gear tips including lens recommendations, but in the below video he offers something equally valuable: tips on how to pose your subjects for better boudoir images.

“Posing is one of the most difficult things for boudoir photographers to learn,” Sasser says. “What I see a lot of photographers do when they first get started is they’ll get their model or their client into a space in the room, and they’ll check their lighting and everything else, and they’ll bring their camera up, and they’ll be like: ‘Ok, be sexy.’ And this is basically no direction at all. So instead of doing that move, we’re going to teach you three posing tips you can use at your very next photo shoot.”

Here are the three boudoir posing tips that Sasser discusses and demonstrates with his model Hannah:

#1 Pointing Toes

#2 Arching Your Back

#3 I Don’t Know What to Do with My Hands

Watch the video and then check out more of Sasser’s excellent boudoir and gear tutorials on his YouTube channel.

Speaking of posing tips, we’ve been featuring quite a few tutorials on this topic in recent months and here are a few of the most popular ones you should check out:

When Poses Go Wrong: The Do's and Don'ts of Model Posing (VIDEO)

7 Tips on How to Make Anyone Look Good in Photos (VIDEO)

These Are the Tricks Pros Use to Pose People So They Look Better in Portraits (VIDEO)