29 Sep 09 Guide to posing the female model

I have now worked with, and reviewed, several posing guides and they all do there job but now I want to direct your attention to the “Guide to posing the female model”

This guide has, like all the other guides, a lot of poses (1104 to be precise) BUT unlike all those other guides it is so easy to use on location.

Most of the guides you find are on DVD, CD, PDF and as a web page, and although they do the job it is not easy to take them with you on location and yes you can print most of them but you are hampered with a A4 ring binder which is not the handiest format.

This guide however fits in your photo bag or back pocket as it has a very handy format and is ring bound which makes it easy to use. You don’t have to remember the poses you want to use in the shoot and in communication with your model you can show what you want. For me this is the main attraction of this guide.

Being Dutch, and with that have a language barrier if it come to precise description of what I want I can discuss and show the model exactly the pose I want. As an extra benefit when the model sees the poses she comes up with others by herself.

The poses in the book are very useful and of great diversity,nicely grouped, and easy to convert to posing sequences the model can perform.

I use this now on every model or portrait shoot I do and it works!

The price of the guide is around $60 and is money well spent. The guide can be bought online at: http://www.photographytips.com/page.cfm/5858

With this guid on the market it would be good if the author creates simular guides for male, child and group modeling as I think that there is a market for that.

Happy shooting

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