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There's an urban legend that the reason that Guns & Roses "Sweet Child of Mine" ends with the lyrics "Where Do We Go Now" was because Axl was asking a question, not because he was singing a lyric. He literally wanted to know "where do we go now?" and that ended up sticking as part of the song.
When shooting models, sooner or later, you will run into a "Where do we go now" moment. In many cases, the model will want clear instruction about what the vision is, where to stand and where to put her hands. The photographer will need to have a good set of ideas to blast past periods of when the imagination runs dry, and avoid the moment where nobody knows what to do next.
The classic way of doing a model shoot is to get the safe shots in the bag before experimenting. The problem with experimenting is that you can get stuck with a lot of stuff that's not working before getting back on track.
That's what makes this book great, by showing how to see how variations might lead to something you might not have thought about, and you can get your homework done before spending (wasting) time at the shoot. You can also start adding more "safe shots" to your bag of tricks by having the poses you want well thought out before hand.
The book is beautifully done, with a short technical section and a very extensive posing section.
The poses are organized by position, so it does make it very nice on how to get from one pose to another with a minimal amount of effort. It makes sense in terms of organization, but there are also downsides too as it may not lead to the best way to get a series of poses in mixed positions. Still, I am glad that it's organized by position, because I've seen plenty of posing books that were basically unusable because of how complex the organization was.
The second thing I'll note is that it's written for the photographer as the intended reader, not the model. Again, this is not a ding, but just thought I'd clarify that. The model can definitely pick up a lot of value out of this, but the text is aimed more towards the shooter.
The third thing, it would be nice if there were some way of communicating a series of poses to a model without flipping through the book itself. Would love a way to have an app that communicates just the poses I want to work on rather than pulling out the book and trying to explain the shot.
Great book overall, heartily recommend it. You can't go wrong having this on your shelf.
When shooting models, sooner or later, you will run into a "Where do we go now" moment. In many cases, the model will want clear instruction about what the vision is, where to stand and where to put her hands. The photographer will need to have a good set of ideas to blast past periods of when the imagination runs dry, and avoid the moment where nobody knows what to do next.
The classic way of doing a model shoot is to get the safe shots in the bag before experimenting. The problem with experimenting is that you can get stuck with a lot of stuff that's not working before getting back on track.
That's what makes this book great, by showing how to see how variations might lead to something you might not have thought about, and you can get your homework done before spending (wasting) time at the shoot. You can also start adding more "safe shots" to your bag of tricks by having the poses you want well thought out before hand.
The book is beautifully done, with a short technical section and a very extensive posing section.
The poses are organized by position, so it does make it very nice on how to get from one pose to another with a minimal amount of effort. It makes sense in terms of organization, but there are also downsides too as it may not lead to the best way to get a series of poses in mixed positions. Still, I am glad that it's organized by position, because I've seen plenty of posing books that were basically unusable because of how complex the organization was.
The second thing I'll note is that it's written for the photographer as the intended reader, not the model. Again, this is not a ding, but just thought I'd clarify that. The model can definitely pick up a lot of value out of this, but the text is aimed more towards the shooter.
The third thing, it would be nice if there were some way of communicating a series of poses to a model without flipping through the book itself. Would love a way to have an app that communicates just the poses I want to work on rather than pulling out the book and trying to explain the shot.
Great book overall, heartily recommend it. You can't go wrong having this on your shelf.
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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).
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