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Bonnie RzM gives five tips plus two bonuses for plus-size subjects: angle hips to the side, relax the arms and leave space between them and the body, raise the camera slightly to balance a larger bust, step back from the lens, wear heels if comfortable, and put confidence first.

Bonnie RzM shares poses for plus-size women: the belly shield, touching nails over the stomach; long legs, extending one leg past the other; the bootylicious, knotting a shirt at the waist and popping a knee; the catfish trap, rolling shoulders forward in selfies; and hip-bump fixes for tight dresses.

Gia Goodrich and curve model Crosby Pitner discuss working with plus-size models, starting with a stylist's offensive remark. Goodrich's lighting is a diffused beauty dish key, six-foot umbrella fill and two strip banks on the background, while Pitner argues baggy wardrobe undermines curve models and body-con clothing shows confidence.

Lindsay Adler tells Adobe's Make It host Josh about choosing photography at fifteen, booking the school studio to recreate fashion lighting and testing it on senior portraits. She describes her clean, bold, graphic style, often in red, and her fifth posing book, arguing that understanding posing flatters every body type.

Sue Bryce applies her posing rules of lengthening, shape and staying square to curvier women, with Mapu modelling. In a lying pose she slides the body back from the elbows, keeps elbows inside the body line, not out like Farmer Joe, lifts through the core and brings the chin round.

Brett Seeley shoots a midday fitness session in Maui with Maria, a near-beginner model, using a single Westcott FJ400. He builds confidence with honest, specific praise rather than empty compliments, then directs her muscle by muscle, quad, core, shoulder and bicep, keeping up constant instruction so nerves cannot surface.

Laura Reid demonstrates posing tricks for looking good in a bikini on the beach, aimed at people who feel awkward being photographed and want Instagram-ready travel photos without modelling experience. The poses are presented as suitable for every body type, with emphasis on stance and angles rather than camera technique.

Mango Street's Rachel Gulotta photographs her sister Megan with three ways to pose non-models: straight lines for brashness and masculinity or S-curves for softness and femininity; directing rather than posing by giving the subject a role or emotion; and adding motion, like shaking out hair or repeating a stride.

Lizzie Peirce photographs YouTuber Alanna with ten non-model poses: shifting weight, holding fingers loosely, walking through frame and looking back, pushing hair behind the ear, lifting hair at the root, the thinker with chin on hand, the shy hand over mouth, a look-back with a shrug, and an asymmetrical sit-and-slouch.

Gia Goodrich poses from the bottom up for a lean, tall look: weight on the back hip, bent front knee, hands in pockets, pulling up through the spine then dropping shoulders, soft elbows to avoid toy-soldier arms and a diagonal angle. For tighter frames she connects chin to shoulder.