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Stop Placing, Start Tracing: A Photographer's Guide to Posing Women's Hands
Hands wreck more portraits than bad lighting does. I’ve said that to assistants in my studio more times than I can count, and I still believe it. You can nail your key-to-fill ratio, dial in a perfect catch light, and choose exactly the right modifier for your subject’s skin tone – and then one stiff, flat-palmed hand near the face kills the entire frame. It’s the detail that separates a portrait that feels real from one that feels like a DMV photo with better light.