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noun

posing

(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)

In a sentence

Six example sentences with posing, each labelled with its topic.

  • Posing a nervous family takes longer than the shoot itself, since one child always turns away at the shutter.

    Photography

  • Posing for a portrait painter meant holding one shoulder forward for three hours across six separate afternoons.

    Art

  • The studio's publicity department ran posing sessions where actors learned which side of the face the lights favored.

    Movies

  • The staff spent the morning posing for new headshots, each told to tilt the chin down and look past the lens.

    Business

  • The team photo took an hour, with posing redone each time a rookie forgot to keep his hands on his knees.

    Basketball

  • Half the crowd at the tower was posing for the same forced-perspective shot, hands out to hold it up.

    Travel

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