The Photographer's Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone Paperback – May 26, 2017

So far, so good! I just got the book today and read Chapter 1, "Posing and How Your Camera Sees." I've been shooting photography as an enthusiast for at least five years, though I’m not formally trained. This first chapter covered so many important concepts—things I’d never explicitly thought about before—but they were presented in a way that was clear, practical, and empowering. Even from just this chapter, I can already see how my photography will improve. I’m excited to keep reading and practicing what I learn from the rest of the book.

I've been on Amazon.com for 18 years and this is my first book review. Yes, it was that good and yes it is important that everyone knows it. After reading Lindsay's book on Posing a second time, I wholeheartedly recommend this gem to anyone that photographs people. The book is comprehensive, well written, cleverly designed with training skills and a plethora of examples of what works, what doesn't and why. As you read, you will find yourself getting better at finding posing issues and how to correct them. Simply put, you will understand posing better and produce higher quality work because of it.I truly believe Lindsay is one of the top photography instructors out there today. Her method of teaching relates to everyday photographers and advanced pros as well. If you happen to follow her Instagram or Website, you'll notice she regularly updates her strong portfolio of images. Somehow, she still manages to produce yet more impressive work as the years pass by. An impressive accomplishment that has led to many photography awards and strong industry recognition and accolades.Buying this book is a given. It is a 'must own' and perhaps the new Bible on posing. I would highly recommend you check out Lindsay's other material and books out there. I personally have learned a tremendous amount from her via her books, seminars and videos. She is constantly travelling and teaching. Topics including lighting - both standard and high impact creative, posing for all scenarios and body types, shooting in poor conditions, processing, quick and advanced retouching techniques, business essentials and the list goes on. I am a big fan of her work, work ethic and charming personality. Her book delivers and you'll be glad you bought it!

This is an excellent book on posing. There are many out there but I decided on this particular book because I followed Lindsey on Instagram and was familiar with her Photography. I figured even if it wasn’t the best writing that at least the pictures would be great. I was pleasantly surprised that the writing and posing theory is as well done as her photography. I don’t personally own another posing book to compare, but I can’t imagine another book being “better” but only maybe different. The info in the book is top notch and easy to understand. She covers posing women and men, even couples and families. Perhaps my favorite part of the book is a section at the end of each chapter called “train your eye”, which shows you a pose with numerous problems and asks you to indentify them. She then will describe the specific problems and discuss ways in which she fixed the issues, giving you a way to visualize how to fix problem poses.Overall I can’t recommend this book enough, as it’s been incredibly helpful to me in my portrait photography.

I am over the moon with this book. I love that the author really teaches technique within these pages and also shows with pictures of exactly what she is teaching. I will probably reread this several times to learn all the lessons well. The author's photography is a feast for the eyes. I feel like my money was well spent on this book. It is something that I will go back and refer to over and over. I ordered 3 books on posing and this was by far the most helpful and informative.

This book was my first introduction to posing, and on the whole I really enjoyed it.Pro: The material is great. Lindsay Adler is an amazing photographer, and she has a real knack for both explaining things clearly and visually illustrating what she's talking about with do/don't images, pull-back shots when necessary, and an occasional bit of diagramming on top of an image. The key to this book vs. the kind of static guides to different poses I've tried looking at before is that she's not giving you a list of positions to contort people into, she's laying out a set of basic principles you can use to (a) figure out how you want someone to look, and then (b) arrange them into a position that fulfills that look you're going for. And then at the end of the chapter she'll give you a small list of positions you can contort people into, just in case you lack the imagination to get started on your own ;)Neither pro nor con: While this book is pretty substantial size-wise, it's still not nearly comprehensive, which you come to realize pretty quickly it simply couldn't be without being a whole lot bigger. However, given the amount of material, I found some of the content choices suboptimal, personally. Including an entire chapter on boudoir posing seemed like an unusual choice while what I would expect to be some more common scenarios--especially working with children and posing non-family groups--were left out. Of course, if you shoot a lot of boudoir that's great for you, so ymmv. By the end of the book I kind of came out with the feeling that this was less a comprehensive posing guide and more of an introduction and long form advertisement for the copious amount of instructional video material she has online. Which I have to admit I fell for; I've since bought three of her CreativeLive courses.Con: The editing in this book is very sloppy, which is what kept this from being a five star review. There are several places in the book where the figure numbers she refers to don't actually match the images she's talking about. e.g. she'll say "The problem with image 3.19 was [x] and I fixed it in image 3.20 by doing [y]," but the two images she's talking about will actually be 3.17 and 3.18. Presumably in this case an image was added removed and the references in the text not updated.Worse yet, at times the text will refer to an image that's not actually present under any numbering, or an image will have the wrong caption directly underneath it. These may seem like minor issues, but it can be very confusing for a beginner to read something, look at the referenced image, see that the two don't match up, and then take quite a bit of time to try to figure out if the book is wrong or if you're just badly misunderstanding what it is you're supposed to be looking at.There's also an entire section of chapter 3 (on problematic expressions) that's alluded to, but then the chapter just abruptly ends without the promised section. I assume this is because an editor axed that part of the chapter but forgot to remove the intro text for it.