Posing Techniques for Glamour Photography

Sometimes I like to have a model wear glasses to accentuate her face. In this pose, Tess sports glasses that match the color of ...

tions about her husband, and maybe even their relationship. (Note:This is not to suggest you should try to be a marriage counsel ...

I need glamour photos and I like your work, will you take pictures of me? Here I’m not so lucky. This e-mail tells me that I hav ...

some space and privacy. Once the model has finished, I’ll look over her se- lections and discuss them, along with the poses and ...

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e-mail or fax these sketches to you in advance of the shoot, so you can study them to ensure you’ll have the lighting and props ...

T his chapter is a series of road maps you can use to achieve some fundamental poses: the headshot, the bust-up pose, the three- ...

This image is one from my first test shoot with Ericka. Often, when I do non- commercial work with a model for the first time, I ...

ABOVE AND FACING PAGE—In this series of photographs of model Shauna, I pho- tographed her in all four possible pose crops: full- ...

The Bust-Up Pose. Another common pose is the bust-up pose. I like to treat this like a head- shot, except that I compose the mod ...

In this simple bust-up nude shot of new model Jess, the model poses with her left shoulder lower than her right shoul- der (a mo ...

light across the breasts to create chiaroscuro. This works especially well when shooting a nude or when a model is revealing cle ...

away from the camera to accentuate the model’s shape and bring out those S curves. Pay close attention to the hands in this pose ...

than the front side of the model. These images can be either full-length or three-quarter poses and created with the model stand ...

The idea here is to show off those natural curves from the buttocks, so the model could be wearing a thong or full panties. If t ...

The Traditional Page-Three Pose. “Page three” is a phrase coined from the British tabloidThe Sun,which features a beautiful mode ...

A more classic implied nude is to place the model in the traditional page-three profile pose, then have her place her hands on h ...

I n this chapter I’m going to summarize things that are great for glam- our photography poses and things that are not so great. ...

photos (and the real smile is when the corners of the eyes are in perfect harmony with the corners of the lips). 8.Full lips. Th ...

work with her to correct or conceal some of these deficiencies—especially through posing, clothing and corrective lighting. Lack ...