Viking and Scotsman??

My 19-year old stepson, Billy, will be coming to visit on Friday. He is very fond of his Scottish and Viking heritage and I want to do a shoot with him. He is 6'2" tall, and about 240lbs, long (LONG!) Celtic-orange hair, freckles. We have a Scottish Claymore sword, kilt, tunic, etc., but I'm wondering if any of you have any posing/makeup/scene type ideas. He fancies himself a kind of "dark lord", so I'm going to do many intense "driving forward" type of poses with the sword, facial expressions, etc.

Ever seen Braveheart, hint

Very non-classic, but also movie-like idea:

Straight on to camera, slightly wide stance, sword point down and dead center with both arms holding the hilt and flexed, harsh side lighting from both sides and let the face fall into deep shadow (with detail), head tilted down slightly, low camera angle, and a shop light (or very mild flash) from behind camera just enough to give catchlights in the eyes.

How's that?

Travis

Oooo...the mountains would be perfect!!


Well, Jim has it on DVD, so maybe I'll have him warn me when that part happens and I can close my eyes as he fast forwards through that part. I would like to see Mel in a kilt... wait...what were we talking about now?

Travis, thanks for the idea! I'm definitely going to try that.

Marian, just find some pictures from the movie online, you don't have to watchthe movie.  Use the Google images search and put in Braveheart.
Heck, put in Viking, see what you find.

What secret?

I will have a look.  The problems I am encountering is that I don't have a problem posing girls that resemble the models depicted in all the posing resources out there.  It's the girls that don't.  My corrective posing is what needs help.  I am working on it   Thanks for the resources though, they are helpful.