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General Category => Photography Techniques and how to's => Topic started by: spinner on October 22, 2010, 11:41:34 AM

Title: Portraiture Question
Post by: spinner on October 22, 2010, 11:41:34 AM
Was leafing through a cooking magazine my wife gets. At the back of the mag were the portraits of 10 of the contributing chefs/cooks. Out of the 10 it was half men, half women. What struck me, was that of the 5 women, 4 had their heads slightly tilted. The 5th was straight on as were all the men. Is this some preferred pose?
Title: Re: Portraiture Question
Post by: SimonW on October 22, 2010, 12:10:31 PM
Did you mean tilted, or rotated? As in "this is my best side"?
Title: Re: Portraiture Question
Post by: spinner on October 22, 2010, 02:11:23 PM
I say tilted, one was both tilted and rotated.
Title: Re: Portraiture Question
Post by: Jonathan on October 22, 2010, 02:32:04 PM
Yes.

http://studiostyles.net/2009/05/photography-tip-from-our-forum-head-tilt/
Title: Re: Portraiture Question
Post by: spinner on October 22, 2010, 05:14:08 PM
Ah hah!  ;D Never really noticed it before until looking at these ten head shots and it jumped out at me.  :-[