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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.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm really annoyed that I wasted the money on this book and my recommendation to anyone thinking of buying it would be forget it.
The big down side of buying books online is not being able to leaf through them before making a decision. Even the 'look inside' feature allows authors/publishers to show only what tricks you into thinking there's some worthwhile content, even if there isn't. This particular book doesn't have look inside, but does show some page views. Take a look. That's what you get. No description of why the pose was chosen, what makes it work or not work, the key points to watch if trying to copy it. Just the photographer's name. Worse than useless.
I photograph people in studio and on location. I was looking for a book to use as a kind of sample catalogue, with photos I could show to clients and inexperienced models to give them an idea of how I wanted them to pose. I'm still looking for that reference work - and I'm seriously considering writing it as there doesn't appear to be anything out there.
This book is a compilation of photos by a handful of photographers. It appears to me to be an idea dreamt up by the author to enable those photographers to palm off a load of their shots that didn't quite make the grade for whatever reason. A dancer in a particularly hideous leap; a granny holding a peacock feather next to her face - what the hell is that about? A 'ballerina' slouching on a dining chair. A woman in slinky evening dress, shot from the floor, making her look deformed. Far too many, not very varied, not very imaginative and not very interestingly lit headshots. Not one single photo that made me pause and look more closely.
There are a couple of pages of text at the back giving some very, very basic hints and padded with some painfully obvious information, such as definitions of a full face shot and a profile shot. I'm pretty sure anyone would know those before picking up their first camera.
It's really not worth the paper it's printed on. If I'd paid a quid in a second hand shop I'd still have been annoyed.
If you want to learn about posing, study the photography of Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Horst P Horst, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and, for something up to date and equally masterful, Nick Knight.
The big down side of buying books online is not being able to leaf through them before making a decision. Even the 'look inside' feature allows authors/publishers to show only what tricks you into thinking there's some worthwhile content, even if there isn't. This particular book doesn't have look inside, but does show some page views. Take a look. That's what you get. No description of why the pose was chosen, what makes it work or not work, the key points to watch if trying to copy it. Just the photographer's name. Worse than useless.
I photograph people in studio and on location. I was looking for a book to use as a kind of sample catalogue, with photos I could show to clients and inexperienced models to give them an idea of how I wanted them to pose. I'm still looking for that reference work - and I'm seriously considering writing it as there doesn't appear to be anything out there.
This book is a compilation of photos by a handful of photographers. It appears to me to be an idea dreamt up by the author to enable those photographers to palm off a load of their shots that didn't quite make the grade for whatever reason. A dancer in a particularly hideous leap; a granny holding a peacock feather next to her face - what the hell is that about? A 'ballerina' slouching on a dining chair. A woman in slinky evening dress, shot from the floor, making her look deformed. Far too many, not very varied, not very imaginative and not very interestingly lit headshots. Not one single photo that made me pause and look more closely.
There are a couple of pages of text at the back giving some very, very basic hints and padded with some painfully obvious information, such as definitions of a full face shot and a profile shot. I'm pretty sure anyone would know those before picking up their first camera.
It's really not worth the paper it's printed on. If I'd paid a quid in a second hand shop I'd still have been annoyed.
If you want to learn about posing, study the photography of Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Horst P Horst, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and, for something up to date and equally masterful, Nick Knight.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Being new to photography, I wanted a book to give me ideas on how to pose women. This book startes with a few pages to explain things and then al other pages containing nothing but photos. I thought it was brilliant and now I show it to people I am about to photography to give them ideas on how they want to be photographed. It worked for me.
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Curate's egg; Good in parts.
The good: A ready made visual list of usable poses by a variety of models, in different lighting, with different styles - suitable for using as a discussion point between... Read more
Published 2 months ago by alwyncooper
Instruction Manual
I was looking for something which helped me take photos. This didn't - all pictures (albeit nice ones), no instructions. Read more
Published 13 months ago by J. Thomas
poses make all the difference
This book "just" contains images of women posing, not much text. I suppose you could go through magazines, look through ads and rip out images you like as well. Read more
Published 14 months ago by E. Hughes
PhotoBook review
This is an excellent starter book for beginners and expert photographers wanting to move into portrait and glammour photography. Read more
Published 15 months ago by GeeJay
Poor excuse for a book
This book consists of 128 pages, 2 pages of adverts, 5 pages of text, and the rest are images of women in a variety of poses, most are in my opinion the same poses, with a slight... Read more
Published 16 months ago by A. Gawthorpe
Images, no more no less
This book is what title says. We find 500 photographies of women divided into head and shoulders, three quarter reclining, seated, etc. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Javier
Just a collection of repeated poses
This book is just a collection of repeated poses, for example for a standing model pose you get tons of very similar (or identical) photos... Read more
Published 20 months ago by De Ruitz Igor
To be avoided
Very dissapointing purchase. If you are interested -at all- in photography as an artform, then save yourself from the dissapointment. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Evangelos Himonides
helpful hints...
Few words, all photos: if you risk to run out of ideas when you do portraits, this can be useful...
Published 22 months ago by Mr. Carlo Cerutti
Good ideas
That's a good book full of ideas to photograph women! The images and the paper are in really awesome quality.
I recommend it!
I recommend it!
Published 22 months ago by Barbara
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