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When photographing people, you can have a great composition, perfect light, and the right camera settings, but if your subject doesn’t look right—if the pose is off—the shot will not be a keeper. Posing is truly a crucial skill that photographers need to have in order to create great photographs. If you’re looking to improve your ability to pose your subjects—whether they’re men, women, couples, or groups—best-selling author and photographer Lindsay Adler’s The Photographer’s Guide to Posing Techniques to Flatter Everyone is the perfect resource for you.
In the first half of The Photographer’s Guide to Posing, Lindsay discusses how the camera sees, and thus how camera angle, lens choice, and perspective all affect the appearance of your subject. Lindsay then covers the five most important things that ruin a pose—such as placement of the hands, and your subject’s expression and posture. If you can look out for and avoid these five things, your skills (and your images) will quickly improve. Next, Lindsay dives into “posing essentials,” outlining her approach to start with a “base pose,” then build on that to create endless posing opportunities. She also discusses posing the face—with specific sections dedicated to the chin, jaw, eyes, and forehead—as well as posing hands.
In the second half of the book, Lindsay dedicates entire chapters to posing specific subject matter women, men, couples, curvy women, families and small groups, and large groups. In each chapter, Lindsay addresses that subject matter’s specific challenges, provides five “go-to poses” you can always use, and covers how to train the eye to determine the best pose for your subject(s). In the final chapter of the book, Lindsay brings it all together as she teaches you how to analyze a pose so that you can create endless posing opportunities and continuously improve your work
Ebook The Photographer Guide to Posing Techniques to Flatter Everyone eBook Lindsay Adler
"This book is absolutely vital for understanding the subtle differences in posing. I've got a very good understanding of how to use my camera, and a decent idea of how to do lighting, but I was sorely lacking in terms of how to pose people. After reading this book, I now understand a whole lot of new concepts, including:
* What do with people's hands
* How wide angle lenses (which I would normally not use for portraits before reading this book) can be great for altering the perceived shapes of faces and bodies
* Poses that emphasize the arch of the back in females, resulting in much more attractive pictures
* A whole lot more
The thing that makes this book so much better than others is the 'before' and 'after' shots. Many other photography books that I've read are just a collection of somebody's portfolio with notes on what made the picture work. This book is different, in a very practical way: The pictures are done SPECIFICALLY for the book, with two or three variations on each pose, along with a concise explanation, so that you, the reader, can see exactly why some poses work and some don't."
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The Photographer Guide to Posing Techniques to Flatter Everyone eBook Lindsay Adler Reviews :
The Photographer Guide to Posing Techniques to Flatter Everyone eBook Lindsay Adler Reviews
- This book was my first introduction to posing, and on the whole I really enjoyed it.
Pro The material is great. Lindsay Adler is an amazing photographer, and she has a real knack for both explaining things clearly and visually illustrating what she's talking about with do/don't images, pull-back shots when necessary, and an occasional bit of diagramming on top of an image. The key to this book vs. the kind of static guides to different poses I've tried looking at before is that she's not giving you a list of positions to contort people into, she's laying out a set of basic principles you can use to (a) figure out how you want someone to look, and then (b) arrange them into a position that fulfills that look you're going for. And then at the end of the chapter she'll give you a small list of positions you can contort people into, just in case you lack the imagination to get started on your own ;)
Neither pro nor con While this book is pretty substantial size-wise, it's still not nearly comprehensive, which you come to realize pretty quickly it simply couldn't be without being a whole lot bigger. However, given the amount of material, I found some of the content choices suboptimal, personally. Including an entire chapter on boudoir posing seemed like an unusual choice while what I would expect to be some more common scenarios--especially working with children and posing non-family groups--were left out. Of course, if you shoot a lot of boudoir that's great for you, so ymmv. By the end of the book I kind of came out with the feeling that this was less a comprehensive posing guide and more of an introduction and long form advertisement for the copious amount of instructional video material she has online. Which I have to admit I fell for; I've since bought three of her CreativeLive courses.
Con The editing in this book is very sloppy, which is what kept this from being a five star review. There are several places in the book where the figure numbers she refers to don't actually match the images she's talking about. e.g. she'll say "The problem with image 3.19 was [x] and I fixed it in image 3.20 by doing [y]," but the two images she's talking about will actually be 3.17 and 3.18. Presumably in this case an image was added removed and the references in the text not updated.
Worse yet, at times the text will refer to an image that's not actually present under any numbering, or an image will have the wrong caption directly underneath it. These may seem like minor issues, but it can be very confusing for a beginner to read something, look at the referenced image, see that the two don't match up, and then take quite a bit of time to try to figure out if the book is wrong or if you're just badly misunderstanding what it is you're supposed to be looking at.
There's also an entire section of chapter 3 (on problematic expressions) that's alluded to, but then the chapter just abruptly ends without the promised section. I assume this is because an editor axed that part of the chapter but forgot to remove the intro text for it. - Lindsay Adler has been featured on many CreativeLive events and certainly has a clear and concise manner of sharing her expertise. I do own several "posing" books, but this material has hundreds of images where she describes the starting point, potential weak points of an image, and how it may be improved. Not only does the book describe how to pose women (and men) in a variety of settings (portraits, couples, boudoir) it describes how to best photograph different body types. It is not always all about re-posing the model, it may be involve different camera angles, focal lengths, apertures and lenses. Little tips like avoiding a double chin when photographing a couple kissing is a detail that some other books may forget to mention. It's not really about memorizing 1,000 poses, it is more about understanding some core concepts and then applying them to whomever you photograph.
- This book is absolutely vital for understanding the subtle differences in posing. I've got a very good understanding of how to use my camera, and a decent idea of how to do lighting, but I was sorely lacking in terms of how to pose people. After reading this book, I now understand a whole lot of new concepts, including
* What do with people's hands
* How wide angle lenses (which I would normally not use for portraits before reading this book) can be great for altering the perceived shapes of faces and bodies
* Poses that emphasize the arch of the back in females, resulting in much more attractive pictures
* A whole lot more
The thing that makes this book so much better than others is the 'before' and 'after' shots. Many other photography books that I've read are just a collection of somebody's portfolio with notes on what made the picture work. This book is different, in a very practical way The pictures are done SPECIFICALLY for the book, with two or three variations on each pose, along with a concise explanation, so that you, the reader, can see exactly why some poses work and some don't. - I've been on for 18 years and this is my first book review. Yes, it was that good and yes it is important that everyone knows it. After reading Lindsay's book on Posing a second time, I wholeheartedly recommend this gem to anyone that photographs people. The book is comprehensive, well written, cleverly designed with training skills and a plethora of examples of what works, what doesn't and why. As you read, you will find yourself getting better at finding posing issues and how to correct them. Simply put, you will understand posing better and produce higher quality work because of it.
I truly believe Lindsay is one of the top photography instructors out there today. Her method of teaching relates to everyday photographers and advanced pros as well. If you happen to follow her Instagram or Website, you'll notice she regularly updates her strong portfolio of images. Somehow, she still manages to produce yet more impressive work as the years pass by. An impressive accomplishment that has led to many photography awards and strong industry recognition and accolades.
Buying this book is a given. It is a 'must own' and perhaps the new Bible on posing. I would highly recommend you check out Lindsay's other material and books out there. I personally have learned a tremendous amount from her via her books, seminars and videos. She is constantly travelling and teaching. Topics including lighting - both standard and high impact creative, posing for all scenarios and body types, shooting in poor conditions, processing, quick and advanced retouching techniques, business essentials and the list goes on. I am a big fan of her work, work ethic and charming personality. Her book delivers and you'll be glad you bought it!
