Photographing Models: 1,000 Poses: A Practical Sourcebook for Aspiring and Professional Photographers

I don't know what I was expecting from this book when I purchased it, maybe a few ideas of how to pose and direct models? It is so much more, firstly the quality, it is a solid decent sized hardback with over 300 pages, with as claimed a 1,000 poses. The photography is excellent, the writing simple to follow with reasons for and why certain poses work and with which clothing (e.g. great with jeans, model can use pockets to help position hands). The first chapter covers Technical knowhow and covers such things as camera angles, lighting, hair & make up and Digital correction and processing in lightroom etc. The remaining chapters cover various poses and gives examples of professional photographers examples such as Adam Goodwin & Elliot Siegel. A worthy addition to anyone interested in fashion, photography or human portraiture, at a great price too, I know mine will see me inspired for a few years and a book i will come back to time and time again.

This book is so much better than any of the '500 poses for ???' titles that are around and so much more than a book of poses, despite being approx the same price as the other titles. Whereas most of those just contain photos, this book has a mass of info, tips, do's and dont's, which makes it so much more useful to anyone wanting to improve their ability to pose people for photography, it even touches on styling and shooting/lighting angles. It also of course, as the title suggests, contains 1000 images of poses by some fantastic and inspirational photographers. It's much better than i was expecting and an absolute 10 out of 10 from me, cant recommend highly enough.

Photographing Models offers technical insight into 1,000 poses for young female models with good general background on camera angle and lighting. It has nothing for photographing male models or older female models.Subtitled 'the complete resource for any photographer seeking the best choice of poses', this is really a book of highly professional advice for non-professionals, and is geared for people who want to arrange model shoots with non-professional models when neither the photographer nor the model does this for a living, and where the aim is to create a shot of 'a model looking like a model', which generally means fashion or magazine cover modelling.It has some value as a source book of poses for the professional, but the complete lack of attention to male models and older models means that it is not complete enough to be useful as a handbook. This is underlined by the section on processing, which is confined to Lightroom and does not acknowledge Capture One Pro or even Photoshop, although the screen shots in the next section are Photoshop.All that said, it is very good at what it does, introducing the beginner to lighting and camera angles quite succinctly, giving some basic tips on post-processing, and then providing a series of well-explained, beautifully shot pictures of beautiful girls looking beautiful, with an emphasis on how the posing is accomplished.Although catalogue work is an important staple for the working photographer, this book really only covers a corner of the work that someone shooting models professionally is interested in. Unless you are selling fashion products, very few of these poses will work in the bread and butter world of local and regional advertising. If you are already shooting national and international campaigns, this book is unlikely to tell you anything you don't already know.Great, but only 1/4 of what it might be.

This is informative as well as containing great images and ideasI have actually used some of these consepts in my shoots

I have wondered about ordering this book for months as I was unable to find any advertiser who allowed you to 'Have a Look Inside'. Then I found it was out of print, and going into print for a second time. I reasoned it must be good, And it is.There are many styles of posing addressed, and some have small diagrams of the lighting used. In other cases whole pages show how important even small changes in the basic pose can make a tremendous difference in the final outcome. It is a book to show to aspiring models or family, when discussing possible poses. A book I am thoroughly pleased I ordered, and my only regret - not to have ordered in earlier !.

One of the better books i've purchased to join my collection. It's a quality hardback manual, loaded with good advise & pictures of poses to inspire you. I't's jam packed with very easy reading text to explain the why's & do's of posing etc, with occasional tips on camera settings & so on. It's a book you can pick up from any page & it'll help you to get that perfect shot with ease. It's improved my studio work ten fold so i'd recommend this book to even a pro, because even so called pro's get things wrong.

Out of 320 pages not a single page was dedicated to photographing men. It is a solid resource and I have used it with success but it could have been so much more if this mistake had been rectified

This book is a really good read. I didn't know what I was going to get but not only does it give images of a variety of poses but a good deal of text and advice or what is good and what is not. It also gives some information on best lighting and what type of photography it goes with. It is full of inspiration and at a great price for it too.