Yes I’ve shown a few people and my colleagues have seen them and said the same thing. I got one stock stiff pose for team shots of “put your hand in your pocket” that I tried to make more natural with the practise I’d done before. My own ones got less direction as well from what everyone said which is sad because I was excited to be told how to pose well from behind the camera rather than from my perspective. It’s hard to practise looking better when you don’t know what your better is.

Thanks, good point. I hadn’t thought of it like that. I’ve been trying for the past year to get used to seeing myself in pictures by taking them of myself and posing. It’s more like everyone else’s look relaxed but well staged as they have pretty much the same poses or characteristics whereas mine obviously missed something. Poor head or shoulder angles compared to others which they were told to change but I wasn’t etc.

Thanks for the insight. Although it was my first time I actually went in confident and excited but it lasted less than 1 minute then onto the last guy (there were 10 of us). We weren’t given any pre-shoot stuff, just told to show up. I have no idea how to pose properly so I was hoping for more direction but got 3 broad instructions. We also didn’t get to see them after he took them so we couldn’t say anything.