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Why fold your hands, and center them, in portraits?

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What's this pose called? Let's not call it crossing your palms!

Anyways, in portraits, the subject usually never shows hands. Then why clinch your hands, then center them in the center of the portrait? What do the clasped hands betoken?

Top — Zenith. Middle — Natalie. Bottom — Wilson.

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Why? Probably because the photographer told the subjects to do that. Personally, I don't think it looks that great. The bottom picture seems better to me than the others in that regard, but I can't really say why.

In any case, you'd have to ask the photographer why he thinks this pose looks better. Artistic value is very much in the eye of the beholder.

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Wrist flexion? (2 comments)
Wrist flexion?
Peter Taylor‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Maybe the last one looks less bad because although the hands are in an unnatural pose, at least the visible wrist is fairly straight. The left wrists of the other two subjects are bent to an extent that rarely happens spontaneously except possibly when playing a backhand stroke in a racquet sport, and it's physically uncomfortable for me to reproduce their pose.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 1 year ago

@peter You may be on to something. The top picture looks a little worse (more staged and artificial) than the middle to me. That correlates with your bent wrist measure.