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How to Direct Maternity Portrait Sessions Like Ana Brandt: A Step-by-Step Posing Breakdown
Maternity sessions used to trip me up more than almost any other genre. The pressure is real: you have one window of time, an emotional subject, and a body that doesn’t respond to generic posing cues the way a typical portrait subject does. For a long time, I relied too heavily on poses I’d pinned and not enough on reading what was actually happening in front of my camera. What changed that for me was watching working pros direct in real time, not just seeing the final images.