Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide

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

Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide
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Author: Jeff Smith
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-07-01
ISBN: 1584281340
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.

Book Reviews of Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide

Book Review: Valuable insights and good fundamentals
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

Summary of Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide

Photographers learn how to gauge the needs of their clients before placing them into a stale, preconceived “women?s,? “men?s,? or “children?s? pose that hardly fits the client?s personality or preferences. Provided with a two-pronged approach to fail-safe posing, photographers learn first to determine what the mood of the portrait should be and how to use an appropriate posing genre—traditional, casual, glamour, or journalistic. Photographers are then shown how that genre can be used as a basis to produce a pose that best suits the client, allowing them to create dynamic yet natural-looking pose that the subject—and the intended recipient—will love.

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