Product Description

The great portrait photographers of today haven't forgotten the fundamentals of classic portrait posing but they interpret them less formally. This book teaches you the classic rules and when to break them. Featuring techniques for all types of portraiture, you'll learn simple ways to flatter the human figure. Corrective posing techniques are also provided, helping you make every client look their best. Filled with ideas and illustrations to enable you make images that please your clients, this book will help you meet your artistic and financial goals.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53822 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Pretty good I'd say
I've looked at a lot of other books on "posing" and found that the majority are intent on showing you their great pictures. This book is more basic and tells you in simple phrases how to get subjects to pose, head position, arms position, foot placement etc and a host of other tips which can be employed to counter big people , small people, double chins, bald people. Not PC I guess but if you are taking somebody's photo they usually want to look good.
I find the advice spot on. There are an abundance of lovely pictures but this book doesn't let them get in the way of giving you proper advice. If you are a pro you probably know all this but I didn't and have found it very useful.

It does what it says on the cover!
Plain and simple, this book covers every aspect of posing men, women, children and groups.

The images are good, but in part that's a problem, because the majority of people you or I might want to photograph are not the beautiful people in this book! Although plenty of advice is available to 'make the most/least' of different peoples features, there aren't any images demonstrating this advice (or perhaps the advice works so well that I couldn't tell that person X had a large nose, or person Y was overweight!). This aside, the other advice in the book is illustrated by the photographs.

The chapters of the book are in a sensible order and are well laid out, making it very readable in small bite sized pieces allowing the reader to go and try the advice! The index makes the book easy to use as a reference too, so if I can't remember how to photograph someone with 'big ears' I can look it up in the index! The text is well written, concise but easy to understand. The writing style may be a little on the 'dry' side. The text that accompanies each photograph describes the point the image is being used to make which is good.

There are a number of other Amherst books (listed in the back of this book) covering complimentary subjects, which I think helps to add value to this book.

Not very useful
This book may suit a photographer just starting out but to be honest they would be better off looking at nice images from top mags such as Vogue. Not very impressed at all.