Ebook: Jeff Smith's Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography

This comprehensive guide to location portraits teaches the basics of good head-to-toe posing, indoors and out, and shows the classical approaches used throughout photographic history to create a pleasing rendition of the human form. Additional introductory chapters detail the four main posing styles and reveal how to determine which will work best with a subject, their clothing, the location, and the purpose of the portrait. Chapters for advanced photographers highlight the creation of a wide variety of individual and group poses-including ground, seated, head-and-shoulders, and standing-to be.;""Cover ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Goals of Posing""; ""Suit the Purpose of the Image""; ""Enhance the Style of the Image""; ""Flatter the Subject""; ""Yield More Marketable Images""; ""2. Critical Decisions""; ""Determine the Intended Use of the Portrait""; ""Choose the Clothing""; ""Choose the Setting""; ""Choose the Lighting""; ""Choose the Style of the Pose""; ""Traditional Posing""; ""Casual Posing""; ""Journalistic Posing""; ""Glamorous Posing""; ""Practical Example""; ""3. Flatter the Client""; ""Basic Guidelines for Posing""; ""Explain Problems with Tact""