500 Poses for Photographing Men

529 Pages·2012·41.81 MB·English

by  Michelle Perkins

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About This Book

‘Determining the best way to pose your subject—a way

that fers the individual reflects the subject's
personaly, and i visully appeding in the ovell
‘imposition can be one of the bigget chalenges in
creating a sucesfl portrait.

“This i especialy trae when cresting portaits of male
subjects, For males the posing “rules” tend to be more
stringentyappled, meaning that a very nuanced approach
wil be requized to crate a variety of loks. Additionally,
ten are ofen more refucaat thes women to have their
porte taken, This eds toto iss. ir, most portrait
photographers have fever opportunities to work with male
subjects; asa result, when confronted with posing chalenges
they have fewer pat experience to draw on, Second, many
hotogrperaseport that thes escions wit mae ubjects
te often much shorter than those with female sabjecte—
‘most guys jst don't have the interest n or tence for &
fussy portrait sitting. This means the photographer must be
prepared t get all of the requeed images in amited me
fume

‘This collection is designed to addret thete problems
Filled with images by accomplished porta, fsion, and
commercial photographers, it provides a rewurce for
photographers seeking inspiration for their own work,
Stk on what to do with a particular cent or unsure how
to use given proptFip though the sample ports, pick
something you Hks, then adat it we needed to aut your
tases Looking fo pice up your work with some new poses!
Find « sample tht appels to you and look for ways to
‘mplemeat i (or some element of it) with one of your
subject

For ease of ue, the portits ae grouped according to
hove much ofthe subject is shown in the frame. Thus the
bookbegins with head-and shoulders porta followed by
portals that introduce one or both hands into the head-
and-shoulders look Next ate waist up portals, fetuing
‘mages that include the head and shoulders ame and bands,
nd at leat some ofthe subject's treo. Moving on to three
‘qarterlegth portraits the examper feature subjects
shown fom the bead down to mid-thigh or mid-cl. The
balance of the book features full-length Images—the most
complex portraits to pose, because they incinde the entire
body. Both the thee-quartr- and fall-ength ports ae
tubdivided into poses for standing eubjecte and seted
bec,

can be dficlt to remain erative day after day, your
after year, but sometimes all you need to breakthrough &
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