Photographing Women 1,000 Poses

In this beautiful, yet extremely practical source book, fashion photographer Eliot Siegel embarks on an ambitious project to pull together 1,000 poses for photographing models. Designed to inspire photographers and models alike, the book's poses are organized by type including standing, sitting, reclining, crouching, kneeling, and dynamic poses, as well as head and shoulder shots and expressions. For selected images, Siegel includes a lighting diagram as well as a detailed explanation of how the image was made, but in every case he explains why a pose works, or why it doesn't. This image-packed reference also features iconic photography from prominent fashion photographers and includes a how-to chapter at the end of the book that provides a crash course on lighting, styling, props, and backgroundseverything you need to know to make a woman look great, regardless of which of the 1,000 poses you wind up using.

An American living in the UK, Eliot Siegel has been a professional fashion and portrait photographer for over 25 years. He has worked for a multitude of fashion magazines in New York, Milan, Paris, and London and has shot for Bloomingdales, Macy's NY, JC Penney's, Reebok, Nokia, and Motorola. Siegel lectures and gives workshops on fashion, portrait, and fine art photography at various colleges, and has been Associate Lecturer in Photography at Plymouth University in England. Eliot Siegel is also the author of Fashion Photography Course (Barron's).

Chapter 1: Technical Know-How
Chapter 2: The Poses
STANDING
SITTING
CROUCHING
KNEELING
RECLINING
MOVEMENT
EXAGGERATED
BODYWORK
HEAD & SHOULDERS
EXPRESSIONS
Index