3 Posing Rules my celebrity photographer taught me

3 Posing Rules my celebrity photographer taught me my best friend shoots for celebrities like Hailey Bieber like Hailey Bieber and she told me that 90% of people make the same three mistakes when they're posing for photos. And after she taught me this I went from taking photos like this and this to taking photos like this and this. My friends literally started asking me if I took a posing class. The difference was not working out buying new outfits or becoming magically photogenic. It was literally just implementing the three posing rules she taught me to look memorable and confident instead of corporate generic and easy to forget. The first mistake she said everyone makes is posing straight on. Most people face the camera like they're taking a passport photo and wonder why they look stiff instead. Instead, turn your body slightly away from the camera and then face back towards the lens. It makes you look half the size and way more nonchalant, cool girl like you didn't even notice the camera there. The second mistake is not knowing what to do with your hands. You can be fixing your hair adjusting your shoes resting your hands somewhere naturally. You can literally just do something random. Have some personality, the goal is to not look posed, but like someone caught you in the middle of doing something important. The third mistake is smiling like you're trying to prove you're nice. This one changed everything for me. Most women try to pick the photo where they look the friendliest, not the most powerful, but your headshot is not supposed to say 'I promise I'm approachable.' It's supposed to say 'Don't forget me.' I'm the person you're supposed to remember after the meeting. So instead of forcing this huge smile, just relax your face, soften your mouth, lift your head and think about the version of yourself that already got the job, the client, the raise. Cause the goal was never to look nice. It's to look like someone people would wanna take seriously. Someone who looks powerful. And once I started doing these three things, my photos stopped looking like intern headshots and started looking like personal brand assets, from someone who makes millions of dollars.