The Photographer's Guide to Posing

When photographing people, you can have a great composition, perfect light, and the right camera settings, but if your subject doesn¿t look right¿if the pose is off¿the shot will not be a keeper. Posing is truly a crucial skill that photographers need to have in order to create great photographs. If you¿re looking to improve your ability to pose your subjects¿whether they¿re men, women, couples, or groups¿best-selling author and photographer Lindsay Adler¿s The Photographer¿s Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone is the perfect resource for you. In the first half of The Photographer¿s Guide to Posing, Lindsay discusses how the camera sees, and thus how camera angle, lens choice, and perspective all affect the appearance of your subject. Lindsay then covers the five most important things that ruin a pose¿such as placement of the hands, and your subject¿s expression and posture. If you can look out for and avoid these five things, your skills (and your images) will quickly impr