It's all about the Jaw!

I took an afternoon to explain the first thing I discuss with every client as soon as they get in front of my camera!

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Lauryn Ann Laszczak 3:05pm Jan 29, 2012

Awesome video Peter! I love the chiropractor line! Haha. Really good stuff.

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joanne handler 10:58am Jan 30, 2012

Thanks for the great blog post! A perfect refresher for my next shoot!

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Kevin Mosmen 2:09pm Jan 30, 2012

Well worthwhile. Thanks Peter!

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Karaminder Ghuman 5:02pm Jan 30, 2012

So I actually showed this video to a bunch of my friends that I was shooting on Sunday. They found it a great resource teaching themselves about forehead out and down. When the second group of friends arrived later, the first group told me that they should watch the video too. It certainly made directing my friends a lot easier as they had a previous frame of reference.

Either that or they just like to laugh at me.

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Peter Hurley 5:23pm Jan 30, 2012

I did the same thing with a guy this morning. He wouldn't get his damn chin out and I showed him this and he finally got it!

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Kevin Mosmen 6:23pm Jan 30, 2012

Karaminder and Peter....good idea!

Peter, is there any way we could get access to the video other than the PH2 site here? There a way to make it available on Vimeo so we could link to it from our Vimeo page or something? I guess I could always show it to people at the studio but it might be nice to have them practice in advance. Piracy will be the issue though....

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Peter Hurley 11:09pm Jan 31, 2012

Keeping the stuff private by putting it on here. That's the plan with all the coaching tools. Scott Kelby is supposed to use it on his site, so you may just be able to send people there and I might open it up on vimeo. Keep you posted on that.

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John David Pittman 7:11pm Feb 1, 2012

Sha-BANG! Love love love the before and after shots! Great stuff, Peter.

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Jay Stebbins 11:18am Feb 10, 2012

Hey Peter, this was a great blog post. Perfect for the fine details of positioning the forehead to accentuate the jawline. Particularly pointing out the shadow lines. Awesome!

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Ryan Jones 2:05pm Feb 10, 2012

Sha-BANG - Love this video

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Greg Bourne 2:26am Feb 11, 2012

That is great, and I really enjoy the generosity in your style.

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Peter Hurley 8:44am Feb 11, 2012

Glad you guys like it! I'm going to start beefing up the site with a video a week. Stay tuned!

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Kevin Riggins 9:51am Feb 11, 2012

Great video Peter. Really drives home some concepts from The Art Behind the Headshot.

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Craig Mitchell 9:28am Feb 14, 2012

very helpful!

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Peter Hurley 9:29am Feb 14, 2012

This should be up on Kelby training in the next few days.

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Richie Buttle 10:02pm Feb 20, 2012

Great video... really adds some great extra info and more practical examples with the jawline.

You could do one like these on the squint also.

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Levy Moroshan 3:05am Feb 26, 2012

You know what, I'm thinking of putting together a before and after shot like this for each client so that when future clients walk in I can clearly show them the difference. Might even just pick one or two people I've shot before and do that with. It's always super helpful when I can "show" a client exactly what I want them to do.

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Thomas Milne 9:22am Feb 29, 2012

The video ROCKS, Thank you for taking your time and putting it together.

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Dzmitry Parul 9:35pm Jun 7, 2012

That is wonderful! Thank you for sharing this experience! I found (or noticed) this crappy jaw line on some of my recent pictures. I was thinking about this, but some time it is better not to use the brains 'Knowledge' but experiment instead. Thank you again.

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Wayne Renbjor 5:02pm Jun 8, 2012

I love how your like Emeril Lagasse, he sais BAM when he adds flavor, you have SHABANG when you get great shots :)

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chris Tonks 7:52pm Jul 24, 2012

Wow. what a difference, it makes to the photograph awesome man!!!

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carlos pena 11:30am Jul 31, 2012

Great tutorial, I'm trying this right now!!!

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