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 Great Helper May 31, 2009
Ordering one wasn't enough, I ended up ordering a second for a fellow photographer who saw mine and just had to have one. Great little book that goes everywhere in my camera bag.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
bang for the buck Jan 14, 2009
Some folks complain about paying $20 for a book that's relatively small in physical size, but it's not the quantity of the info that you're paying for, it's the quality, and the value is there.
As a relatively experienced people photographer, one of the things I have really grown to understand is that the art of posing other people, learning to tell them how to move and how to hold their bodies, is a distinct art in and of itself. It's no less challenging than learning about the basics of photography and the physics of lighting.
This book's focus is on glamor photography mostly, so the emphasis is on women's bodies and how to pose and compose them for maximum appeal to the viewer and also the editor if they're going to be put into publication.
The writing style is simple, whimsical and straightforward. The images are entirely cartoonish, but this is strategically effective. It's easy to show the drawings to a model as an example of what you're after and have them understand, because they're not looking at a photo of some glamorous model and thinking to themselves, "Oh, I could never look like that!" The drawings are non-threatening, unintimidating to models and easy to understand.
I don't have much room to carry books around in my camera bag, but this is one that has found a place there.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
JJ MacCrimmon Nov 17, 2008
I recently was searching for a memorable and descriptive book on posing models. Posing handbooks seem to be exercises in self congratulation or poorly organized for showing effective positioning. What worse is most I've read aren't memorable. The Pink Pocket Poser book offered a humorous and very clear summary of all the do's and don't for glamour model photography. This book makes the task of setting position and using props easy with sketches and cartoons. It's something I now study up on before each model shoot.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Excellent & Funny Idea Starter Sep 29, 2008
Even though this book is written by a Brit and displays the singular humor Brits are famous for, this is one of the best posing guides for glamour and boudoir photography that I have come across. Add to that the very amusing line drawings the author has done to illustrate the "rules" he lays down and you have a very fun way to have your imagination and creativity piqued.
I have even shown the book to a couple of models that I was shooting and we were having a hard time with posing ideas and the results were amazing! Their own creativity was jump-started and the poses began to flow.
1 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Very helpful, EXPENSIVE book... Sep 02, 2008
This has excellent advice, in very simple terms, that anyone can take advantage of. Though I have years of experience in Glamour Photography, I did learn some helpful stuff. But, it must cost like Fifty Cents to print this, and does not deliver on bang for the buck.....
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