Posing Teenage Boys

[smoke665]

Any suggestions for posing a couple of bashful teenage boys?? Examples? Techniques?? Every time they sense the camera pointed in their direction they tense up.

 

[tirediron]

How old?

 

[smoke665]

How old?

15 going on 30 and 13 going on 25 LOL

 

[tirediron]

Together or separately?

 

[smoke665]

Together or separately?

Sorry, should have given more information. I would prefer them individually. The oldest has just passed 6' (man in a boys body), and leans toward the serious side. Not really interested in sports, very advanced for his age, speaks fluent Latin, science oriented, loves shooting and hunting, and is the alpha of the two. So if he's not into something neither is the other. The youngest is fast catching up with his brother on height. He's more into sports (basketball), and is also off the intelligence scale, speaks Latin, more history/art oriented, not as interested as his brother in hunting or shooting, tends to be more on the sensitive side. Without his brother in sight he is more easy to open up.

Footnote: they've both been in private schools for gifted for a long time, and quite capable of analytical arguments, having been on interscholastic debate teams for a few years now.

 

[snowbear114 45]

Any suggestions for posing a couple of bashful teenage boys?? Examples? Techniques?? Every time they sense the camera pointed in their direction they tense up.

Pose them with one of @cauzimme's subjects?

 

[Derrel]

How about some photos where the two brothers have something to interact with? A selection of their current favorite books...books and basketballs...some shooting or hunting props added to the mix...get the two together, light the set, and have them talk to you, or talk to one another, as you shoot some photos. Have the poses be side-by-side, free form-ish but then perhaps have them pose individually with their favorite objects, then bring them together, close enough to be in one frame, for "together" poses. This ought to help alleviate some of the awkwardness.

 

[smoke665]

Any suggestions for posing a couple of bashful teenage boys?? Examples? Techniques?? Every time they sense the camera pointed in their direction they tense up.

Pose them with one of @cauzimme's subjects?

I've followed her work lately, that would definitely get their interest, though the oldest already has quite a following of his own

 

[Advanced Photo]

I'd do something low key with the facial features coming out of darkness to add an air of mystery and a bit of intrigue.
Teenage boys have absolutely no mystery about them as their thoughts and feelings are pretty well know to everyone that was a boy or knew a boy that age.
Your treatment can give them something they otherwise lack. And I think they'll like the more grown up look it imparts to them.

Or perch them on swings and snap away. j/k

How to Create Dark Moody Low-Key Portraits with Minimal Gear

Cleveland photographer James Douglas puts subjects in the dark for portrait series (Photo Gallery)

https://keithcapperphotography.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/ben1-low-key.jpg

to a lesser extent:
http://www.santosphotography.co.uk/...ack-white-portraits-by-santos-photography.jpg

The idea being sort of a face on profile of sorts with the light adding the profile details to the frontal shot or 2/3 frontal shot.

 

[smoke665]

photos where the two brothers have something to interact with?

Derrel they definitely do better when they forget about the camera. They really are at that awkward age when they're very self conscious, most likely your suggestion is going to involve them being outside doing these things and catching them when they forget.

I'd do something low key with the facial features coming out of darkness to add an air of mystery and a bit of intrigue.

This is what I'm thinking as well. At their Cotillion this year there was a photographer that captured a really good shot of the oldest (kind of a James Bond look), but she converted to HDR and added to much. Less really is more sometimes.