Posing For Portrait Photography: A Head-to-toe Guide

Photographers learn how to gauge the needs of their clients before placing them into a stale, preconceived "women's, " "men's, " or "children's" pose that hardly fits the client's personality or preferences. Provided with a two-pronged approach to fail-safe posing, photographers learn first to determine what the mood of the portrait should be and how to use an appropriate posing genre--traditional, casual, glamour, or journalistic. Photographers are then shown how that genre can be used as a basis to produce a pose that best suits the client, allowing them to create dynamic yet natural-looking pose that the subject--and the intended recipient--will love.