The completely revised edition of the glamour photography classic features totally updated technical information with 200 stylish full-color photos.

The complete resource for any photographer seeking the best choice of po ses! Features over 1,000 images especially selected to inspire you and help expand your creativity. Photographs and poses are placed in context, explaining why they do (or sometimes don't) work. A selection of poses features an accompanying lighting diagram, giving a clear understanding of how the photo was made. Includes a variety of models shot using different lighting rigs, props, and settings-in the studio and on location-making this book suitable for commercial and editorial applications. Discover the secrets of success behind professional photographers' work, and learn how to get the best out of your models on a shoot. PLUS a technical how-to section gives master classes in angles, lighting, styling, and more. 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 beginning of the book that provides a crash course on lighting, styling, props, and backgrounds--everything you need to know to make a woman look great, regardless of which of the 1,000 poses you wind up using.

Caitlin Domanico and Jade Beall have a tremendous talent for creating captivating and meaning-rich images that highlight the various stages of motherhood. In this book, the pair teaches readers efficient and effective posing, lighting, and composition techniques that will bring out the best in subjects, depict the emotion of clients, and highlight the relationships that bind mothers and their children. Readers will learn how to craft images that depict the beauty and raw emotion inherent in pregnancy, birth, nursing, and care-giving and will also discover a cadre of beautiful approaches for documenting nursing and feeding, play, and other activities. Creative insights and techniques are also presented for every aspect of photographing newborns, infants, and small children, alone and in groups—both in and out of the studio. Also included are strategies for working with special needs children to ensure a safe, comfortable, and productive session. This beautifully illustrated book provides new and seasoned photographers with a wide range of images that they can draw upon for artistic inspiration as well as a look at the key strategies they can adopt to re-create a specific look or re-imagine portraits that are tailored to their own style or clients’ preferences.