Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide | Jeff Smith

Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide | Jeff Smith | Valuable insights and good fundamentals

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Posing for Portrai...

	Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide Jeff Smith Amherst Media, 2004 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very good book on posing

When you're working with professional models, posing becomes very easy, because the model will assume a succession of interesting basic poses and variations that the photographer can work with. All you might need to do is offer suggestions to refine and fine tune a good pose to make it a great one.

That's not the case when you're working with non-professionals, which is the case with most portrait work! Your subjects may be ill-at-ease, not know what to do, and worried that their portrait will not turn out well. This book gives the photographer the knowledge and confidence needed to create interesting and flattering poses for a variety of portrait situations. If you read this, you'll be much more adept at portraiture, and your subjects will be relaxed and more readily photographed in attractive ways. This is an essential tool for beginning portrait photographers, or veterans who want to improve their skills.

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Valuable insights and good fundamentals

This book is full of nuggets of insights. Very first chapter; 'Six things you should never do' pays for the price of the book. I am not a professional photographer but insights in this book have helped me take better portraits.

I am surprised by a very negative review on this book. That reviewer must be confused about another book. There is no question posing is a difficult topic and it is wrong to expect one single book will make you master of portrait photography. Nonetheless, this book will help you avoid some basic mistakes. After reading this book, I looked at pictures I had taken before and I noticed several basic errors I made. Now I won't be making those errors anymore.

This book is well illustrated with excellent photographs and is presented in very logical order. Out of several books I bought on this topic, this is the one I keep referring to again and again and it never disappoints.

There are few drawbacks. There is limited information on lighting. Book focuses on mainly studio portraits and assumes you are a professional photographer with all the equipment; information on outdoor portraits is limited. Also this book focusses only on senior portraits.

Author Jeff Smith has other books on lighting and outdoor portraits.

Overall this is a good book on posing if you keep above limitations in mind.

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basic book

good source of information to prepare lessons for starting photography students.

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Awesome book

The negative review certainly must be mistaken, and about another book! This book is quite detailed when it comes to posing an individual,and even gets down to details of each part of the body...hands, hips, feet, arms, ect. I would recommend this book, and in fact am ordering another for a friend! I didn't want to sell him my copy!

good tips

good tips for models or those being photographed. the tips are fundemental, and help you to learn the ropes, however it probably wont change your life. i would reccomend to models with no photographic experience.

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