"This includes getting - HORROR OF FUCKING HORRORS - pictures taken. I HATE having my picture taken. Always have, even when I was at my lightest and not looking too bad. I just... hate them with the fiery passion of a thousand burning hot suns. But I will swallow it and just get them done. Ma's partner is a photographer, so maybe when they come over? Better get my arse shifting on 1, then!"
Ok, I hated being in front of the camera when I started doing photoshoots. I did photography in art school, and it was often self-portrait, but I was in total control...someone else pointing a camera at me? I HATED IT. wanted to CRY when it came to posing. (I still hate casual shots and surprise cameras) But...I can dance. I can perform. Best thing that ever happened to me was Michael Baxter, at my second ever shoot, realizing I couldn't pose and turn off my "you have a camera pointed at me goddamnit" brain. He stopped lit the whole studio, cranked my music, and treated the shoot like a live performance.
It might not work for you but it is worth a try...but pre-shoot spend time figuring out what motions and poses work well for you in motion and might look good captured. Get music you really like...choreography something that uses those moves and poses...or just practice those moves and poses freestyle until it feels like the natural way to react and perform that music.
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Ok, I hated being in front of the camera when I started doing photoshoots. I did photography in art school, and it was often self-portrait, but I was in total control...someone else pointing a camera at me? I HATED IT. wanted to CRY when it came to posing. (I still hate casual shots and surprise cameras) But...I can dance. I can perform. Best thing that ever happened to me was Michael Baxter, at my second ever shoot, realizing I couldn't pose and turn off my "you have a camera pointed at me goddamnit" brain. He stopped lit the whole studio, cranked my music, and treated the shoot like a live performance.
It might not work for you but it is worth a try...but pre-shoot spend time figuring out what motions and poses work well for you in motion and might look good captured. Get music you really like...choreography something that uses those moves and poses...or just practice those moves and poses freestyle until it feels like the natural way to react and perform that music.