Photographing Women: 1,000 Poses Author: Eliot Siegel | Language: English | ISBN:
B009XDGEKA | Format: PDF
Photographing Women: 1,000 Poses Description
The complete resource for any photographer seeking the best choice of poses!- Features over 1,000 images especially selected to inspire you and help expand your creativity.
- Photographs and poses are placed in context, explaining why they do (or sometimes don’t) work. A selection of poses features an accompanying lighting diagram, giving a clear understanding of how the photo was made.
- Includes a variety of models shot using different lighting rigs, props, and settings–in the studio and on location–making this book suitable for commercial and editorial applications.
- Discover the secrets of success behind professional photographers’ work, and learn how to get the best out of your models on a shoot.
- PLUS a technical how-to section gives master classes in angles, lighting, styling, and more.
In this beautiful, yet extremely practical source book, fashion photographer Eliot Siegel embarks on an ambitious project to pull together 1,000 poses for photographing models. Designed to inspire photographers and models alike, the book's poses are organized by type including standing, sitting, reclining, crouching, kneeling, and dynamic poses, as well as head and shoulder shots and expressions. For selected images, Siegel includes a lighting diagram as well as a detailed explanation of how the image was made, but in every case he explains why a pose works, or why it doesn't.
This image-packed
reference also features iconic
photography from prominent fashion photographers and includes a how-to chapter at the beginning of the book that provides a crash course on lighting, styling, props, and backgrounds—everything you need to know to make a woman look great, regardless of which of the 1,000 poses you wind up using.
- File Size: 28065 KB
- Print Length: 320 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (September 26, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009XDGEKA
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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There's an urban legend that the reason that Guns & Roses "Sweet Child of Mine" ends with the lyrics "Where Do We Go Now" was because Axl was asking a question, not because he was singing a lyric. He literally wanted to know "where do we go now?" and that ended up sticking as part of the song.
When shooting models, sooner or later, you will run into a "Where do we go now" moment. In many cases, the model will want clear instruction about what the vision is, where to stand and where to put her hands. The photographer will need to have a good set of ideas to blast past periods of when the imagination runs dry, and avoid the moment where nobody knows what to do next.
The classic way of doing a model shoot is to get the safe shots in the bag before experimenting. The problem with experimenting is that you can get stuck with a lot of stuff that's not working before getting back on track.
That's what makes this book great, by showing how to see how variations might lead to something you might not have thought about, and you can get your homework done before spending (wasting) time at the shoot. You can also start adding more "safe shots" to your bag of tricks by having the poses you want well thought out before hand.
The book is beautifully done, with a short technical section and a very extensive posing section.
The poses are organized by position, so it does make it very nice on how to get from one pose to another with a minimal amount of effort. It makes sense in terms of organization, but there are also downsides too as it may not lead to the best way to get a series of poses in mixed positions.
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