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Posing Techniques for Digital Portraits (Digital Quick Guides series)

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This book is filled with lots of information and example pictures. It tells you that this photo is good and that photo is not so good, but it doesn't go far enough towards explaining the details to a beginner. I was looking for a beginner's book that would first explain what the traditional poses are before discussing the newer more untraditional poses. For instance, the author refers to a traditional 'feminine' or 'masculine' pose, but doesn't offer enough information to understand what those really are. He also say that traditional poses are not as important today as they once were. He says that women don't want to look feminine anymore and men don't want to look masculine. I wonder.

This book would be more help someone who already had some experience with posing techniques, but not as much use to a complete beginner.

Also, the title indicates that this book is somehow specific to 'digital' posing techniques, but I found no discussion of any of the differences between film and digital. In fact, the word 'digital' was only used once in the whole book, and that was in the introduction. Film was never mentioned. I'm fairly sure that there are no differences with posing between digital or film, other than the quicker feedback of digital.

I bought this book to use as a studio reference because it has easy to find sections and samples of "good" and "bad" angles. This book isn't meant to be an in-depth review of posing, but a quick and easy to understand guide.

Useful features include sections on the various "problem" body parts, quick overviews of posing styles (traditional, casual, glamourous), and corrective posing for weight and glasses.

If you are looking for an in-depth discussion of studio posing this book is not it -- but if you want a book for quickly referencing how to pose arms, legs, or the body, this book will be a good reference and starting point for posing your subjects.

What a waste of money!!! I could have done a better job writing a book about posing than this with my eyes closed. The pictures are amateur at best and rarely demonstrated the point of the lesson. I can't believe I actually paid money for this thing! Whatever you do, don't waste yours.

!Posing Techniques for Digital Portraits (Digital Quick Guides series)

While this book is not very big it certainly had a lot of great information in it for a portrait novice like myself.

I had been asked to take some portrait shots over the holidays and I purchased this book to see if it would help. While I needed group portrait advice this book was still able to help me out some with head and hand placement, for example. Was not much help with group posing for this session but I will continue to study and refer to it.

I will use this book as a reference many times in the coming years

Just a few more books and I will be constituted a library. This is one of the most helpful books for the beginner in posing. Problem body part placement is a great asset to any portrait photographer. You can easily add your own variances to suggestions from the author. There are a few books that I keep handy at all times. This will be one of those until I feel qualified to write my own book