Product Description

Posing can offer many challenges for even seasoned portrait photographers. This guide provides 500 images from the industry's most heralded professionals, presenting readers with a visual reference that can be consulted prior to portrait sessions to find suitable poses. The collection can also be shown to clients to gauge their interest in different styles. Organised into clear categories, photographers can zone in on areas and styles specific to their subject and concepts demands. Includes work from Jeff Smith, Jeff and Julia Woods and Tim Kelly amongst others.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13234 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

A handy resource
I wasn't sure at first whether to give this a 4 or 5 rating - I think it's more a 4.5 if I had the choice.

Now, this book is just a reference - a resource to give you inspiration when you are taking portraits of female models. As well as inspiration for you, you can also show it to models or everyday people (especially those not used to posing), how you expect them to sit, place hands, and so on.

There is an introduction at the start by the book's author, a basic posing guide at the back along with short biographies for the various authors (the photos are by around 15 separate photographers and not by the book's author).

The bulk of the book is made up of pages with the 500 photos on - they are printed clearly and large enough to see what's what, with only image/plate number and author name as text, and have between 2 and 7 images per page.

This is not a "how to" book. It is for inspiration; to give the photographer new ideas for poses, etc., and as I said earlier, handy for showing your subject if they are a new model, or just the average person just in for a portrait session.

That said, it is useful for professionals and beginners alike - but if you are a beginner, you will need to find other resources for lighting techniques, and if you need more information behind the techniques used in the poses.

The only real thing that some may not like is that the overall style feels very American and "traditional". Not a bad thing in itself, and hardly unexpected as it is an American book, but it would have been nice if there were some other, perhaps more contemporary, styles included.

What more can I say
This book is great and provides exactly what it says on the cover. Great visual guide on many poses and all in lovely colour. Great technique book.

Does exactly what it says on the tin....
For those new to posing subjects this book illustrates many, well 500 different posses and shows you not only what works but what looks natural.

It isn't instructional as it does not say if you stand like this it is slimming or anything like that, so you need to work it out for yourself a little.

It is also great to have on hand when with clients as it is much simpler to say I want you to stand like this and show a picture.