How to Pose Senior Guys for Photos: A Practical Breakdown of What Actually Works

How to Pose Senior Guys for Photos: A Practical Breakdown of What Actually Works

Senior guy sessions used to make me nervous in a way I didn’t fully understand at first. I’d show up with a solid location, good light, a clear plan, and then my subject would stand there looking stiff and vaguely uncomfortable, like he was waiting for a bus rather than sitting for a portrait. The problem wasn’t the light. It wasn’t the settings. It was the posing, specifically, the fact that most posing language I’d internalized was built around photographing women.