The Art of Body Language in Portraiture with Stacy Pearsall

The course was interesting and an learned some techniques to identify people’s behaviour, and then how to adapt my approach to make the session more attractive.

This course is a must have for any true portrait photographer. I learned not only a lot about my subjects through this class, but a lot about myself and the reason I am a portrait photographer. This stuff is essential. It also helped me with my process... This is stuff you usually do without thinking about it, but after this class I now think about it, and it's made my work better.

This is the first course I've given a review on and I have about 5. This is the course you should have either after you've learned all about lighting and posing or before. There's no mention of where and when to set up lighting or what camera settings, or focal length, f stops, etc. You can have all the knowledge about those things, but if you don't connect with your subject it won't matter! I'm glad I got this course. After the first shoot,​ I already knew it was worth the price!

Stacey is a great photographer and teacher BUT a lot of the stuff about communication, mirroring etc whilst I appreciate is important and more often than not overlooked is really laboured, I just want her to get on more with the shoot- lighting, how to pose the subject,

Stacy Pearsall is a communication genius! Her story is admirable, fascinating, and saturated with humanity. I was fortunate to be in the studio class for this course, and I was blown away by her charisma and powerful energy! She truly captures the importance of using unspoken communication strategies to draw out a subject and showcase what makes them special, AND to be mindful of the communication set-backs we can quickly create with our own body language as directors and photographers. This course is a must-have, not just as a portrait artist, but as a human being who communicates with others in general. Pearsall is AMAZING!!!!

Thank you Stacy! I loved the class, it confirmed to me that I'm on the right direction, it's important to bond with your subject, and love what you do is essential to it, you can tell Stacy loves her job and she is passionate about it and a good teacher as well, it was very easy to follow her.

I just happened across this class as a free video and love Stacy's charisma and knowledge. The communication information makes so much sense and can be used in all personal interactions. Thank you, Creative Live and Stacy!

I love how the class wasn't only about the body language of the subject, but also about the body language of the photographer. Stacy taught about how they reacted to each other instead of focusing on either independently. It's an angle I haven't seen covered in other photography classes. The guide showing body language meanings using Stacy's photography is also fantastic bonus material.

Haven't seen the class yet, but know the included material called " Body Language Example Chart" was written with a non-standard font called "Gotham Book". You will need to acquire that font to read this material.