Customer Reviews

The Model Posing Guide For Fashion And Glamour Photography

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A quick read for the photographer and model alike. The book hits all the points on preparing for a shoot from the Models perspective. As a photographer, I'm keeping a few on hand to give to newer models - as a way to help them get started. The book has groups and series of poses that the model can practice ahead of the shoot. (It always makes a shoot go smoother when a model can cycle through poses and you only have to help them make fine adjustments.) This book is a great reference for photographers, because you can visually breeze through similar poses to find one that fits what you are looking to capture. All in all, I'm glad someone finally came out with a book just like this! Kudos to the author!

A quick, but concise read on outlining the considerations and expectations for both the photographer and model! This guide essentially prepares the photographer and model for the actual shoot and will virtually eliminate "wasted time" determining the direction and focus of the shoot. In addition, the incredible number of captured poses will give the photographer a wealth of choices in preparation for the shoot. All-in-all, a great reference and a "must have" for photographers and models alike!

This saves me a lot of time having to explain poses for newer models. Plus, I saw some new poses that I will add to my repertoire. For the price, the print quality is less than spectacular, thus the minus one star. However, still a great buy and I highly recommend it.

Note: Designed primarily for models, it does not explain much about the theory or reasons behind the poses. For photographers looking for more information and basic posing principles, I highly recommend Nigel Holmes' The Pink Pocket Poser: The Glamour Photographers Posing Guide (WARNING! For some, the drawings and humor maybe explicit) and The Portrait Photographers Posing Guide: How to pose people for portraits.

I bought this with the hope that it would help me when working with new models. Since I'm relatively new photographing people there are times when I get stuck on poses, especially with new models. Luckily this book came in the day I was shooting two new models so we glanced over it and talked about basic concepts. With the pictures and the simple explanations our shoot went off without a hitch. They were able to visualize what we were trying to do. I would highly recommend any photographer have this in their library.

I purchased this book based on the reviews and am disappointed. The model on the cover is the same one posing in the book. If the cover pose looks awkward there is more of the same inside the book. The poses are amateurish, improperly placed, hands, arms, feet, and dangling legs abound throughout this book. I was expecting the posing to be more polished and professional (like the fashion magazines). The book gets 2 stars for tips given in the beginning of the book. Posing and facial expressions get a FAT ZERO!

This book is pretty light. I'm not a fast reader by any sense of the word and I went through it from cover to cover in one sitting, in under an hour. Most of the pages are sample poses. There are a few interesting ones there but a lot of generic ones. This might not be a bad teaser to someone who's never done or thought about posing before but if you've read anything else, or seen any other pose samples this book is probably just redundant.

It might have some value as a quick pocket reference if you draw a complete blank but i imagine that one of the posing iphone apps would be better for that. The biggest problem with this book for me now is the price. It's just not worth 18 dollars. It's more of a thick pamphlet than a book. It should be like 5 dollars.

Take my thoughts with a grain of salt because as a Photographer I'm not the main target demographic. If you want more tips on the how's and why's of posing I think that "Posing Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios" is a much better book. It's almost crazy that that book is the same price as this one considering the massive disparity in information between the two. Though in this book's defense it has hundreds of sample poses where as the other is more conceptual.
I don't think that I'd recommend this book.

This is a great book to bring along on a shoot for ideas. My use of the book, which obviously affects my rating, is as a begining photographer looking for a portable modeling guide for women that have never modeled and need pictures to illustrate for them what to do.

The book is intended for the model and not the photographer but is easily used by both. The first 20 pages cover modeling basics, posing, what to bring and do before a shoot. This book isn't as thorough as Billy Pegram's "Posing techniques for photographing model portfolios." While that amazing book is a manual on posing, this is more of a picture book to generate ideas for posing. This is where the book does a great job. There are many ideas you'll get and ability to illustrate poses. The book is small enough to pack along. Keep in mind the intent of the two books and you won't be dissappointed.

Most of the pictures have the model in a leotard or fully covered, though some are in underwear. This helps if you have someone that you wouldn't want to expose revealing pictures to. At around $15.00 it's great for what I use it for.

The only negatives are the pictures are b/w, low dpi, sometimes lacking in texture and contrast and small but easily viewable. There are several pictures on a given page though.

In summary, it was a good purchase for me.

I like to take pictures of my wife, and it work great for her. It give her some reference pose that we can use.

The book is paper back and much smaller in size than I expected. Besides that the book has many modeling poses which are great poses.