Perfect Posing Tips From The Professionals!

We’ve all been there – family events, weddings, or Christmas parties.

Its all fun until someone whips out that little happy-snapper from a handbag and insists on making this moment memorable.

Everyone else has drawn closer together for the stand-in-photographer, and what’s running through your head is the millions of bad photos you’ve seen in the same situations – oh no, not again.

Fear not, plus-size online store Sara with help from their plus-sized model ambassador Ljubenka, they’ve created put together
Perfect Pose.

The site claims that a recent survey of Australian women show that 3 out of 5 dislike having their photo taken!

Thank fully, the site is extremely easy to follow – with text and video of Ljubenka, she takes you through the following categories:
Silhouette
Eyes
Nose
Mouth
Chin
Neck
Arms & Hands
Legs

Each, having a min. of 2 good posing tips – I’ve been in the industry for the last 5 years and there were a few things that I didn’t know!

Best of all, they’re currently holding a best photo competition! Upload your best photos – you know the one where you really looked good and you’ll be entered into a grand prize of $1,000 wardrobe!

Time to stop fearing the family function and start looking fabulous in those photos!

Good luck!!
- Hanna

The Begining.

I suppose I need to start with an introduction. Firstly, I’m Hanna Oxford, plus-size Model, Photographer and advocate for women’s self esteem.

I’m currently developing a photography studio in inner city Melbourne directed at women with body image problems – I’m doing this for the following reasons:

1. After working for 3 years in the US (located in Boston) as a plus-size model, I returned to Australia with a completely new appreciation for the plus-size industry.

In the US the industry it’s empowering, it’s loveable and it’s admired. Frightfully I found my home (Australia) to have the upmost distain for everything plus size.

• I found that generally a plus size model in the US is between 85kg-120kg (170lbs-240lbs)
• In Australia “plus-size” models are 50-70kgs (110lbs-140lbs).
• In the US, a pus-size model are respected and treated the same way as any other model.
• In Australia, “plus-size” models are a very small branch of the fashion industry – mostly shunned away by agencies and hardly hired by major corporations.

2. For the first 4 years of my adolescents, I was teetering between bulimia and anorexia.
This resulted in many hospital visits, group therapy sessions and specialised eating plans – unfortunately nothing seemed to work.

At 17, I moved to Boston where a photographer immediately picked me up as a model. For the first 4 months I suffered imperfection complexes, until the photographer had an open gallery. For the first time I saw my images on display and judged by the general public – and…

Everyone loved them. They saw me as a beautiful human being without fault – a piece of beautiful artwork.

I want other women who feel the same way I used to, to see themselves – only them up there and only them who are beautiful – of course, this isn’t a one fix solution for everyone, but I want to provide the opportunity for women to see themselves that way.

I'm setting this blog up so anyone whoes interested can follow my progress!

Alternitavly, you can find me on the following site:
Ms. Eerie @ Deviant Art - you can find my newest photos and artworks.
Ms. Eerie @ Model Mayhem
Ms. Eerie @ Twitter!

Thanks for reading, any comments good or bad will be appreciated!
- Hanna