posing
Holding for photos
Posing is assuming a position, typically for artistic or photographic purposes: She spent hours posing for the portrait.
Extended meanings involve pretense—posing as someone you're not, or adopting attitudes for effect rather than sincerity: He's just posing as an expert.
Something that poses a threat or challenge presents it: The storm posed serious risks to coastal towns.
Artistic depiction of someone
- studioCreative professional's workspace
- lightingArt of illuminating spaces
- modelRepresentation or paradigm
- backdropRear stage scenery
camera · composition · frame · headshot · glamour · boudoir · lifestyle · candid
Artificial behavior for effect
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- charadeAbsurd or obvious pretense
- feigningPretending to feel something
- masqueradeDeceptive act or costume party
artifice · pretension · fakery · sham · insincerity · guise · simulation · putting on
Sketching the human form
- life modelPerson posing for artists
- nudeUnclothed state
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
anatomy · gesture · classical · academic · draping · studio · foreshortening · renaissance
Photo of oneself
- mirrorReflective viewing surface
- preeningGrooming with vanity
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- duck faceExaggerated lip-pursing pose
pout · flexing · showing off · self-admiration · peacocking · camera-ready · thirst trap · influencer
portrait
Artistic depiction of someone
- studioCreative professional's workspace
- lightingArt of illuminating spaces
- modelRepresentation or paradigm
backdrop · camera · composition · frame · headshot · glamour · boudoir · lifestyle · candid · angles
affectation
Artificial behavior for effect
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- charadeAbsurd or obvious pretense
- feigningPretending to feel something
masquerade · artifice · pretension · fakery · sham · insincerity · guise · simulation · putting on · fronting
figure drawing
Sketching the human form
- life modelPerson posing for artists
- nudeUnclothed state
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
reference · anatomy · gesture · classical · academic · draping · studio · foreshortening · renaissance · tableau
selfie
Photo of oneself
- mirrorReflective viewing surface
- preeningGrooming with vanity
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
duck face · pout · flexing · showing off · self-admiration · peacocking · camera-ready · thirst trap · influencer · filtered
runway
Paved path for planes
- fashionCurrent popular trend
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
- lookbookCurated fashion photo collection
catwalk · catalog · commercial · fitness · swimwear · artistic · dramatic · dynamic · static · hand placement
danger
Exposure to harm
presenting · constituting · creating · raising · issue · concern · hazard · menace · obstacle · difficulty
- portraitureheadshot, portrait lighting, self portrait, formal portrait, candid portrait
- taxidermyglass eyes, specimens, specimen, manikins, mounting
- Voguingduckwalk, death drop, dip, old way, new way
- body movementsflexion, bend, twist, standing, extension
- Gym Culturegym, lift, reps, rep, gains
- impersonationimpersonator, mimic, imitate, imitation, impressionist
posingsincerity
Honest, unfeigned genuineness
candor · honesty · being oneself · authenticity · unaffectedness
posinghumility
Freedom from arrogance
humbleness · modesty · self-effacement · unpretentiousness · plainness
- stay positiveMaintain a hopeful mindset
- be positiveMaintain hopeful attitude
- think positiveMaintain hopeful mental attitude
- fetal positionCurled, knees drawn up
- in positionCorrectly situated, prepared
- positive thinkingHopeful mental outlook
position, positive, opposing, positively, positioning, posit, positions, positivity, positioned