Examples of Poses

[abn72ny]

Great pdf! Thanks for the link!

[cacklin]

Hello sorry to say that either the link is not working or has been taken down.

[lputman]

Originally Posted by cacklin

Hello sorry to say that either the link is not working or has been taken down.

The original link that Saralonde posted is working, I just checked it. It's a pretty big file.

[cacklin]

Iputman,
Thank you for letting me know. I appreciate it. Guess I just did not allow it to finish opening up after a few minutes of waiting. Anyway I appreciate the help.
cacklin

[SheSPawn]

For posing, your best guide is actually good professional photographer's galleries. Most of my family and child poses come from where the family ends up naturally, but when i do stage a shot I borrow what I have learned from my fellow photogs on my many forums or by browsing their portfolios. I spent $3 at the local art store and bought a small sketchbook that I keep in my camera bag, if I see something that makes me think of a great pose, I sketch it quickly (and crudely). I got to the bookstore and pick up lots of different photography books and flip through them, if I see one with poses I like, I sketch real quick. I go to the park with my kids for a picnic and watch other families and get ideas from just watching them play and interact.

In no time I came up with enough poses to keep what shots I do stage always looking fresh. The key is to use what is readily available to you out there and collect it. Yes this is a lot more work than just buying a book with a bunch of premade poses in it, but it will help you pick and choose what fits your style. Being a photographer is being an artist, you need to pick and choose what works for you, not what someone else says works for you.

What that pdf is best for is not necessarily choosing this pose or that pose, but it shows you the different ways contorting the body effects the different parts of the body.

[zespri]

Gotta love the 'new posts' link, or I would never have seen this one. What a treasure trove!

[DaddyDab]

Tons of great ideas. I am shooting members of a group next week and it gave me tons of ideas for their individual shots.

Thanks for sharing.

[EnticingArt]

Originally Posted by Saralonde

I found an interesting site that might help those of you that are trying to do portrait photography and need help coming up with posing ideas.

http://polisphotography.com/Document...web/posing.pdf

Thank you for the link I am not sure if any of you are familiar with the 3d program poser. This is a really good program to have. You can pose your 3d model (s) and apply lighting to see the best effect. I am more proficient in poser than my camera I believe if you were to search it in google, you'd come out with some good results for it.

[Spike]

THANK YOU SARALONDE for that handy PDF link! My crazy spouse kind of jumped the gun yesterday and asked a co-worker if she'd like to do some posing for me so I could get in some much-needed practice at portraiture.... and I'm really nervous about looking like a complete bumbling idjit. LOL. Now I can just print the pages and point and say "Can you stand the way that one's standing?".

I was very glad to see a good selection of mens' poses and couples' poses too. My spouse (like most dudes) has a serious phobia of posing, but I think showing him a few of these might help him not feel quite so dorky when I need him to model (since Tom Selleck repeatedly turns down my offers).

Is there any tool like that available for posing mothers or fathers with infants?

Oh, and @t EnticingArt, I have a copy of Poser around here someplace but have kept putting off installing it. My original intent was to use it as a sort of electronic version of the artist's Adam/Eve for drawing...but now that I see how you're using it, I think I will install it today.

[Biliana]

Thank you Saralonde! I needed these poses for my work! and If I can, I will share it to my friends photographers! Is it alright?