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Title: Posing Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios
ISBN: 1584282207
Author:
Billy Pegram
Publicate Date: 2008-01-01
Publish: 2008-01-01
List Price: $34.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Great for beginners and more advanced amateurs too
Finding a good book on posing isn't easy. I think this is one of the best. As a photographer who works mostly with models and portrait work, with a lot of photo shoots behind me, I still found a lot of the ideas presented here to be excellent. I would recommend this to photographers just getting into photographing people and even advanced amateurs. It's good to see someone finally wrote a useful book on this topic!
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2: Extremely helpful resource
I've not been shooting models for very long, so I'd say that I am in the beginner/intermediate category.
So far, I've been tearing out photos from Vogue, Numero, French and others and tried to duplicate and then improvise, but I've always felt that posing and placement of the models was kind of mysterious and "difficult" to get a real grip on. (how to elongate a model, how to make the butt smaller, how to pose the model in a way that leads the eye trough the photo etc)
-So I've basically used "what looks good" thus far (and I see after reading this book, that some of my past shoots have lots of room for improvement :) )
- It can be easy to get lost in the process during a shoot, thinking and stressing to get the light right, -and forget to instruct and help and tweak the model correctly, often resulting in photos that need to be cropped to hide bad hands, or simply scrapped due to a bad pose, caused by bad instructions, for example.
(I mainly work with new/inexperienced models and often need to instruct and tweak their pose, this is a great learning tool for both model and photographer)
I mean, I've managed "fair" trough improvisation, try/fail, but it was only after reading this book that I started to really understand more on how and why this and that works - and why some of my previous attempts have failed.
The book is comprehensive and well laid out, it covers and explains the cause and effect from posing the feet and legs, to fingers, hands and arms and also the body and face.
I think that the photos in the book compliment the text very well, what I really liked, was that the author not only show the "best" pose, he also often show everything from bad, to fair, to good to excellent posing -and all complemented with very understandable text captions.
I've seen enough tutorials from the classic 70's to know that this wasn't what I was looking for, this book is fresh, modern (imo) and is written by a guy that not only knows his craft, he also knows the industry very well.
Highly recommended!
OH
Norway
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3: Full of practical tips and pearls
Pros: Well written easy to read and follow. I learned a great deal regarding posing and composition, what makes a pose good vs not so good (which may differ depending on the photo shoot target customer / audience).
Excellent content on posing hands, head, shoulders and legs.
Good intro on how to pursue putting together a decent portfolio for both the model and the photographer.
Cons: Some of the photos were quite dated, struck me as being one or two decades old.
All in all, I am very happy with this book. Highly recommended reading for the aspiring portrait and event photographer.
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4: Posing Techniques
"Posing Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios" is very much A repeat of Pegram's "Professional Model Portfolios: A Step-by-Step Guide for Photographers" You do not need both and I would recommend the step-by-step guide of the two.
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5: very good start for creative portfolio model posing
it goes much better into details and techniques for good start of creative model posing than any other book I had on this subject. It's really NOT about wedding poses against an old fashion backdrop or group family portrait posing in the garden.
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