What Everybody Ought to Know About Posing for Portraits

“Do you have any tips on posing for portraits?”

This question hit my inbox earlier in the week and I shot the reader back a few links to tutorials that we’ve written on the topic of posing for portraits. I thought that the list of posts might be useful to others too so have included it here:

1. Posing Tips for Portraits – Posing Shoulders
2. Which Way Should Your Subject Lean?
3. Portrait Photography’s Power Posing Part I: The Components
4. Portrait Photography’s Power Posing – Part II: The Poses
5. Posing Tips – Waistlines, Thighs and Bust lines
6. A Posing Technique from A Girl With a Pearl Earring
7. How to Pose Hands in Portraits
8. Where is Your Subject Looking and Why Does it Matter?
9. 4 Tips for Natural Looking Portraits

What posing tips would you give someone starting out in Portrait Photography?