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Overview (TL;DR)

Try writing a descriptive prompt that includes these things: type of pose, emotion or activity, facial or other features. For example:

three-quarter pose portrait of a proud smiling teacher looking to the right, standing with arms crossed, in front of a chalkboard --v 7

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Can I control how my model poses?

e.g. model, posture, profile shot, look down, face the camera, look up, face away…

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There are portrait photography terms that may help:

• profile shot
• three-quarter shot
• head-tilt pose
• hands-on-hips pose
• leaning pose
• S-curve pose
• crossed-arms pose
• hands-in-pockets pose
• sitting pose
• reclining pose

If they don't work or are not what you want, do both of these things together:

1️⃣ Give the model an emotion, attitude, or even an activity that is correlated to the position you want to see.

Here are example words:

• bashful, shy, embarrassed, awkward