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500 Poses for Photographing Couples: A Visual Sourcebook for Digital Portrait Photographers

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Designed to address the challenges of posing two subjects together, this visual sourcebook offers creative, evocative poses for a variety of two- subject groupings, including romantic couples, business partners, friends, and siblings. Through the inclusion of contemporary images from some of the world’s most accomplished photographers, shutterbugs will learn how to finesse poses to show the relationship between the subjects in the portrait. Grouped according to how much of the subject is included in the frame—from head-and- shoulder shots to full-length portraits—this manual is organized to teach compositional skills and how to direct the eye to points of focus within an image. An indispensible handbook for beginning, intermediate, or professional photographers, this book provides inspiration along with a plethora of images for igniting a creative spark. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amherst Media


Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 22, 2011


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 125 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1608953106


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 03


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.3 x 10.9 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #885,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #708 in Photography Reference (Books) #740 in Portrait Photography #746 in Digital Photography (Books)


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    • Perspective is everything
This book has gotten several bad reviews lately, but I adore it. The one reviewer who said the images were soft focused and as a professional photographer he was not impressed likely missed the entire point of the book. It's not a book about dynamic images...for that perhaps you'll want to consider 75 Portraits by Hernan Rodriguez: Lighting and Posing Techniques for Portrait Photographers. This book is about poses so, be they soft focused or not, this book is full of various ones photographers can look at and glean inspiration from. Photography is visual of course and not too many photographers are going to see the same image the same way. Thank God for that actually. I highly doubt I will replicate any of the images in this book exact, but it does offer a great foundation to learn from. I personally love that it's page after page after page of images and not too many words. At the end of the book, two pages are included with some tips that are pretty basic, but a refresher is never a bad thing is it? Posing and lighting are often two challenging areas for photographers, especially as more than one subject is added and this book offers some interesting ways to pose couples. Are some images better and more stimulating than others? Of course! But, some photographers are also better than others too. This book, and the poses offered can help a photographer take ordinary shots and turn them into extraordinary shots if they can apply a little of the own ingenuity. I will be purchasing the remaining 500 poses I'm missing from this author. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2013 by Faith
    • GREAT GUIDE
This is an awesome book. Really excited to put it to work. I received the item very fast and will do business with this company again. Everything I expected and more. I have just made my hobby, my business. I have had that hobby for about five years and now I have people asking me to do this as business. I will be looking for more books. Thank you for such a great book. Not only gives you the pictures of the pose, but also gives you good detail as to how to make your picture better. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2012 by Catherine
    • More Like 50 usable poses
This book has some good ideas and I do use it to draw a little bit of inspiration from it, but don't be fooled by the title "500 poses". Its more like 50 poses. There are so many repeated poses in this book. Just because they are different couples doesn't make it a different pose. I think my money probably would have been better spent getting John Mireles's posing book. Even though that book is a little pricey ($75) and doesn't boast the "500 poses" title, its more of a field guide that is useful on the go. Would I buy "500 poses" again, yeah probably, but I'm going to cut out the 20 or so images I like and make my own guide from it instead of sifting through the other 480 hokey, outdated, duplicated poses. Hope this helps! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2012 by Joe
    • Great for Engagement Pictures
I have many poses that I have created. However, my ego is not to big to believe that I cannot learn from other photographers. Therefore, I have found this book extremely useful when showing couples who are having engagement pictures done different poses that they might want to consider. I give them the book for a couple days and ask them to select 10 plates they really like and then we meet again and I collect their list. Then on the day of the shoot, I bring the book and show each image they chose. I set the book on the ground so they can see it to help them get into the specific pose. It is much easier to show a couple a picture than try to explain the pose them verbally. It works extremely well. Great book and increases my artistic effect with little work on my part. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2013 by Dean Brown
    • Buy This One, but not the others.
I buy more books on photography than I read, because photography is an art form, and most authors of books on photography don't know how to produce photos worthy of art. The photos in this book are examples of the art of photography. This book inspired me to buy it with the photos they showed in the ad as examples. The other books in this series did not inspire me, because they showed common pictures anyone could take, and I didn't buy any of them. I've looked over this book now that I have it, and I think I will be going back to it again for ideas on couples photographing. If you photograph couples, you could use this book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2015 by N. Racine
    • Great book!
This book provides some awesome ideas for posing couples, simple and easy to use. This is a must have for anyone that likes to take photos weather professional or amateur photographer. It's difficult to remember every pose so having this book handy will give you an edge when taking photo's.
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2012 by Jim (Andre')
    • Just what I needed.
This is a handy little guide for the newbie! Lots of suggestions and photos to guide you to be inspired on your own. So if you are just starting, like me, a straight forward easy how-to guide is essential. I am glad I got this one.
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2012 by Nikon Jerry
    • Don't waste your money
I was expecting to get really creative "out of the box" poses, and I was very disappointed with this book. The poses were very "vanilla"/standard and nothing inspirational about them. It was a total waste of my money. You could do a much better job getting inspiration for poses from pinterest and that is free! I thought this book was very dated and I will not purchase from this author again. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2012 by Dayle Renee

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