Front cover of The Chain Method: Wedding Posing Cards for Working Photographers by Matthew D Kauffmann, CPP, deep purple with the line Eight beats. One cue. One change.
Overview page from The Chain Method wedding posing book showing four getting-ready pose chains with eight cues each
Single large-type card FL4 Second Look with eight cues and a line drawing of the start pose
Single large-type card FL3 Party Reveal with eight cues and an overhead floor diagram of the group and camera positions
How to use this book page explaining how pose chains, A and B roles, wedding cuts and rule lines work
Index by situation page listing every card by wedding moment, from getting ready to the send off
Back cover of The Chain Method wedding posing book with the description, author photo and ISBN barcode

The Chain Method: Wedding Posing Cards for Working Photographers

$59.00

Eight beats. One cue. One change. A spiral-bound posing book for wedding photographers who are tired of running out of ideas at the worst possible moment.

SKU: 9798982473905 Category:

Description

You are standing in front of a couple. The light is good. The clock is moving. And your mind just went blank.

The Chain Method fixes that. Every card is a pose chain: eight beats, one short cue per beat, about four seconds each. Say the cue. Stop talking. Watch the change. Say the next one. A whole chain runs about thirty seconds, and every beat ends where the next one starts, so nobody resets and the moment never breaks.

Chain one card into the next and you have a continuous run. Shoot wide, medium and tight on every beat.

What is inside

  • 99 cards for getting ready, first looks, couple portraits, the wedding party, family formals, the reception and the send off
  • Every card printed twice: four to a page so you can see the whole set, then one to a page in large type you can read from a few feet away
  • A simple line drawing of each card’s start pose, plus overhead floor diagrams for the group and room setups
  • An index by situation, so you can find the card that fits the moment
  • Wedding cuts, deeper chains that stop at a named beat so you can use them at a wedding without crossing a line
  • Chapters on why chains work, running a wedding day, consent, and prompt beats
  • A couple comfort sheet

It is spiral bound with the coil down the left edge, so it lies flat on a chair, a rail or the hood of the car. Printed on demand in the United States.

Printed to order. All sales final except damage or misprint.

Written by Matthew D Kauffmann, CPP, a working wedding photographer who built these chains because he needed them himself.

ISBN 979-8-9824739-0-5

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