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Old 04-16-2007, 05:48 PM
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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
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Old 04-16-2007, 08:51 PM
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Interesting Thanks for the link! Some of those remind me of ballet and yoga poses
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Thanks Saralonde,

I got hurt just looking at some of those poses.
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I like the one in the third column and 76th row.
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Thanks for that link. Sometimes showing the model what you are looking for makes it much easier.
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Thank You Saralonde..will have my wife try to duplicate it..hehehe
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Some of those poses just look.. "wrong"
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Some of those poses just look.. "wrong"
Agreed .

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It's a very interesting link, although I preferred more natural poses.
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For those on slower connections, the file is about 4MB... so be careful out there

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