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Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeff Smith
Publisher: Amherst Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 61195
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1584281340
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.92
EAN: 9781584281344
ASIN: 1584281340
Publication Date: July 1, 2004
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Product Description
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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 Would be a better Posing book if combining 6 into 1 title. June 3, 2008
I dont' know whether it's Amherst Media or the author to blame for it but honestly all 6 of his Portrait books could be packed into a single 300-page Portrait textbook. It's because the content (photos and posing tips) are mostly overlapped from one book to another. For instance, when I read "Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography", most of posing tips could apply anywhere and there is not much information on the "location" that the book is supposed to be about.
So just for your info, here are the 6 titles of his Portrait series (I've read 3).
1. Profitable Portraits: The Photographer's Guide to Creating Portraits that Sell
2. Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide
3. Outdoor and Location Portrait Photography Second Edition
4. Success in Portrait Photography
5. Professional Digital Portrait Photography
6. Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography
Don't get me wrong, his writing is excellent and straight to the point. His posting techniques from head to toe are well explained & illustrated. Even as a novice in portrait photography, I still easily convey and visualize every point he describes. Best of all, Jeff wants photographers to ask "why" rather than "how" when evaluating each photo in his book and I totally buy into his philosophy. His posing tips have no doubt been proven based on many other sources I've read and learned. For instance,
- Always pose body at an angle facing away from the light.
- The eye is the center of attention in head-and-shoulder pose and therefore catch light is a must-have.
- Arms should always be separated from the body to define the shape and tone of both.
However, I have to agree with other readers that most photos are just so-so & soft focus (maybe his style?). He could also have used more attractive models (sorry girls) for his photos. Despite so, the photos clearly illustrates what message he is trying to deliver.
To summarize, this book is very good one but you will have to buy all his portrait books if you want a complete understanding of the topic. I wish I could find a great single title on Posing technique like I could with Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching.
 Excellent book May 31, 2008
Very well explained. Very modern and very satisfied after using the hints and tips as presented in this book
Great book! April 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the tips the book gave- it was a great intro into portrait posing. I have been able to implement some of the tips and have definitely improved my shots!
 Save your money .. April 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ugh. Where to begin.
Well, for starters, I actually made it through this nearly worthless "guide". If this is your very first posing book then it has "some" usable information, stress "some". Otherwise, or if it is your first, do a yourself a favor and skip it and pickup the far superior "Portrait Photographers Handbook"-Hurter which covers posing (and more) as or more usably in a couple chapters than this whole guide. Or get "The portrait photographers guide to posing"-Hurter also (all are Amherst media so I'm not shilling here)which is an expansion of Hurter's chapters in the first book listed above on posing. They are far far better written, without ? I dunno what it is? ego? perhaps? or just a clunky writing style in this book. For example, if I read one more time how the author is so awesome and his new photographers are so unworthy and relegated to backroom or "senior" duties for 2 years doing headshots before they're worthy to move to 3/4 or full portraits, my eyes will probably get stuck in the rolling position. I got a sense the author is arrogant...and for NO REASON if his photos are any indication.
Whatever it was this book is nearly useless irrespective of that issue anyway. Even the photos, something I don't normally gripe about, are very average, far from inspiring. The above listed books are so far superior in this regard it's laughable. They contain photos from the top photogs in the country and are very inspiring.
I would actually rate this book 2 stars but seeing as how far the amazon 4.5* ratings are out of whack, if I could do zero I would. Highly overrated. 2 Stars
Good foundation February 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As the title reads this book is a great foundation to build your posing knowledge on. As ther reviewers mentioned there are a lot of senior portraits, but the information is relevant to adults as well. I also purchased Professional Model Portfolios by Billy Pegram and found it to have more "meat" in my opinion. Though it doesn't focus on posing I found it to be a bit more inspiring.
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