Jeff Smith’s Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography
Posted by brian | Posted in General Photography Books | Posted on 03-19-2010
Tags: gen. jeffrey.smith, Jeff, Location, Photography, Portrait, portrait photography, Posing, Smith's, Techniques
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- ISBN13: 9781584282259
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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 utilized in tandem with stairs, rocks, and other architectural and natural elements. A chapter devoted to the essential business skills needed to professionally schedule appointments, work through consultations, manage sessions, and present and deliver final prints is also included.
Jeff Smith’s Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography
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Every Jeff Smith book I have picked up has been great. I wish I owned them all!
Rating: 5 / 5
Advanced amateur or professional photographers may get bored by this book, but newcomers to model photography, I do not know if I use the correct term, this book is excellent. Reading, understanding, and applying positively affect my photos right away.
I personally was having problem in getting the right pose for model, especially full body. I have never felt good with the composition. I guess it was because the shape of human body is different from normal photo frame.
The way Jeff describes things are is excellent. Not so much of hard chewed theory. Practical approach with a small but make sense backgrounds makes me focus into trying to apply his lessons right away.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is reasonably well written, but I found that the photos in the book didn’t match what the words were saying. The author would tell you to do one thing and then the example photo would break the rule that was just given. Anyway, it did help me with posing a little better, but it could have been better.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is a great book for the person who is looking for ideas to begin shooting portraits. I actually skim it a couple days b4 an impt photo shoot. Jeff does a great job writing as it is easy to read and understand with great examples. His reasoning makes sense and encourages the reader to want to read more. I highly recommend this book to all photographers especially those who are wanting to start their own studios or business.
Rating: 5 / 5
Clearly the author has considerable knowledge in his domain. What the book is lacking though is high quality instructional text.
This book is probably most helpful for an experienced, but early career photographer who is looking how someone else is doing things just to mix things up, expand on breadth.
For someone who has not gotten any other instruction on posing, the descriptions will fall well short of anything that can be reproduced in a repeatable and predicable fashion. It doesn’t have enough detail, doesn’t explain enough of the why/how.
And for the seasoned pro, there is not enough new stuff in here to make it worth the read.
The style of writing is much more of a pro sitting down on the porch over a drink comparing notes with someone else, than someone trying to explain how something works from the ground up.
In terms of photo books, it’s like showing a photo, the lighting diagram, but not explaining why those lights were placed there. Lots of those books around as well.
Would I have picked it up from a book store? Maybe. Would I buy it again? Probably not. Did I expect more than it delivered? Definitely.
Rating: 3 / 5