Dynamic Posing Guide: Modern Techniques for Digital Photographers

Effectively posing the human body is a challenge for nearly every photographer, from amateur to professional. Understanding how a model's pose, body language, and posture affect a photograph is crucial to success. Author and professional fashion photographer Craig Stidham shows you how to guide a subject's personality through body language, with hundreds of examples and suggestions.

• Answers critical questions such as: how can a photographer avoid having the subject look awkward? How does one direct both experienced and inexperienced models?
• Shares helpful posing tips and techniques for posing models in new modern and fashion-forward ways
• Suggests ways to make strategic edits in post-production to fix common posing mistakes
• Offers hundreds of examples of strong and stunning posing

Dynamic Posing Guide teaches you the skills you need to identify strong modern posing techniques as you strengthen your photographic skills.

CRAIG STIDHAM is a professional portrait and fashion photographer whose groundbreaking images have appeared in fashion and photography magazines and on billboards nationwide. He teaches his avant-garde style in his popular workshops.

JEANNE HARRIS is a freelance writer and content creation/social media professional. Her career has revolved around photography since she began producing TV commercials and fashion catalog shoots in 1993.