{"id":6332,"date":"2017-10-27T16:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/koln.beeskneesphotos\/blog\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2023-06-09T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T11:00:30","slug":"how-we-increase-someones-confidence-at-a-photoshoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/how-we-increase-someones-confidence-at-a-photoshoot\/","title":{"rendered":"How we increase someone&#8217;s confidence at a photoshoot"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h3>Help, I don&#8217;t feel confident in front of the camera!<\/h3>\r\n<p>Psst&#8230; we&#8217;ll let you into a secret &#8211; you&#8217;re not the only one.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6477 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/woman-leaning-against-a-tree-1.jpg\" alt=\"woman leaning against a tree\" width=\"309\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/woman-leaning-against-a-tree-1.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/woman-leaning-against-a-tree-1-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/woman-leaning-against-a-tree-1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/woman-leaning-against-a-tree-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/woman-leaning-against-a-tree-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/woman-leaning-against-a-tree-1-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/woman-leaning-against-a-tree-1-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>We&#8217;ve looked back at over 100 photoshoots to work out who we thought was confident about being in front of the camera when we first met them and who wasn&#8217;t. Well, guess what? We reckon around 80% of people were NOT very confident when they started. Some had pre-photoshoot nerves, but most were either not very confident about what to do in front of the camera, or a surprising majority were not very confident in themselves and their appearance. If you were to look at the photos of these people you&#8217;d think\u00a0<em>&#8220;Wow, they look so natural and confident!&#8221;<\/em> Yet the reality at the start of their photoshoot was completely the opposite.<\/p>\r\n<p>So if this applies to you &#8211; don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;re actually in the majority.<\/p>\r\n<p>We know what it&#8217;s like &#8211; we all want great photos but, unless we&#8217;re a model who does this on a regular basis, we just fumble when in front of a camera &#8211; perhaps some of these things might ring a bell:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>How should I stand?\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>What do I do with my feet?\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Where should I put my hands?<\/li>\r\n<li>Should I smile?\u00a0 But, wait, I&#8217;m not sure I like smiling in photos! Oh, so you DO want me to smile occasionally.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about my smile.<\/li>\r\n<li>But what do you mean &#8216;natural&#8217;?<\/li>\r\n<li>Relax! How can I? \u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>You&#8217;ll probably ask yourself many of these questions &#8211; just like so many who&#8217;ve who&#8217;ve been in front of our camera before you.<\/p>\r\n<h3>What do we do to help increase your confidence?<\/h3>\r\n<p>We&#8217;ve worked with so many people before that we know what you&#8217;re going through &#8211; and because of our experience we know how to help you relax. We find people often go through these feelings during our photoshoots:<\/p>\r\n<h3>The first 5 mins:<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>you&#8217;re likely to be unsure of the location, the photographer, whether you&#8217;ve chosen the right outfit &#8211; basically, everything you could possibly be unsure of will probably be running through your mind,<\/li>\r\n<li>we therefore start our photoshoots by spending a few minutes doing nothing but having some idle chit-chat between us,<\/li>\r\n<li>no photos at this stage &#8211; just some general chatting about anything at all,<\/li>\r\n<li>we do this as a way of breaking the ice a bit &#8211; so that we&#8217;re all a little less like a bunch of strangers,<\/li>\r\n<li>we&#8217;ll also find out whether there&#8217;s anything you do or don&#8217;t like about photos of yourself that you&#8217;ve seen in the past &#8211; some people hate their left side, others hate their right, whilst others don&#8217;t care &#8211; that way we can jump right in and adapt as we go, so you get more comfortable very quickly.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>The next 20-30 minutes:<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>at this point you&#8217;re probably feeling the least confident in yourself and the photoshoot &#8211; and very uncertain,<\/li>\r\n<li>this is where we take over and direct you about what you should do &#8211; you just need to follow our directions,<\/li>\r\n<li>once we get the camera out we&#8217;ll start with some fixed poses that we know will look good, so that you don&#8217;t need to do any thinking about where and how to stand &#8211; we&#8217;ll tell you,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6461 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/portrait-of-a-young-girl-with-long-brown-hair.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of a young girl with long brown hair\" width=\"228\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/portrait-of-a-young-girl-with-long-brown-hair.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/portrait-of-a-young-girl-with-long-brown-hair-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/portrait-of-a-young-girl-with-long-brown-hair-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/portrait-of-a-young-girl-with-long-brown-hair-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/portrait-of-a-young-girl-with-long-brown-hair-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/portrait-of-a-young-girl-with-long-brown-hair-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/portrait-of-a-young-girl-with-long-brown-hair-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6476 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/summer-female-portrait-in-the-park.jpg\" alt=\"summer female portrait in the park\" width=\"228\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/summer-female-portrait-in-the-park.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/summer-female-portrait-in-the-park-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/summer-female-portrait-in-the-park-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/summer-female-portrait-in-the-park-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/summer-female-portrait-in-the-park-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/summer-female-portrait-in-the-park-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.beeskneesphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/summer-female-portrait-in-the-park-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/li>\r\n<li>as we start getting some great photos we&#8217;ll show you some of these on the back of the camera as we go,<\/li>\r\n<li>sometimes people will say <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like myself in that pose&#8221;<\/em> (which helps us quickly move on to what you do like),<\/li>\r\n<li>but with most people they start to become impressed at how good we can make them look in a short space of time &#8211; often people will say <em>&#8220;Wow, yes you&#8217;re right, I do look good in that&#8221;<\/em>,<\/li>\r\n<li>as we go through this phase you&#8217;ll begin to realise it&#8217;s all a lot more relaxing and easy than you original feared.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>The last half of the photoshoot:<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>you&#8217;ll be please to hear that by this stage you&#8217;ll have much greater confidence and you&#8217;ll actually start enjoying yourself,<\/li>\r\n<li>during this stage some people are still happy to let us direct them with more poses and guidance, which we&#8217;re very happy to do,<\/li>\r\n<li>but with most people, this is where we find they&#8217;re happy trying out more adventurous things that we might suggest, or they might have their own ideas that they want to try out,<\/li>\r\n<li>because, by now, we&#8217;ve already spent a while working together, you&#8217;ll feel very safe and trusting by this stage, which usually means you&#8217;re happy to try some new poses and some fun stuff.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>Some final words:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Remember, you&#8217;re in the hands of an expert &#8211; so relax, we know what we&#8217;re doing. But don&#8217;t just take our word for it &#8211; here are some of <a href=\"\/about\/our-customer-reviews.php\">our customer reviews<\/a> where customers described how they felt.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help, I don&#8217;t feel confident in front of the camera! Psst&#8230; we&#8217;ll let you into a secret &#8211; you&#8217;re not the only one. 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