Great for photographer and aspiring model.
Customer Rating: 
I'm planning on doing senior portraits for high school kids in the near future and wanted to know some of the finer points about posing people. This book does go into great detail on things that my other books (see my reviews) doesn't. For example, the hand can be placed in graceful positions or it can really throw off an other wise good shot. For a gal that wants to be a model, this will help you to understand what the photographer is trying to do, and how you can avoid positions that he would ask you to change. In posing a model, you are not just out to get a picture of the person, but you are using the person to sell the product. This book will show how to use the model to draw your attention to the product. Where as in a portrait shot you are probably just drawing your attention to the subjects eyes and the other features sort of take a secondary place. I think there is enough in this book to help you avoid some common errors. I rate books on how they might have prevented me from making an error that would cost me the price of the book. If you shoot a session and every shot has the same major flaw that the book showed was a no no, you have lost the price of the book many times over. On the other hand, if the book has showed you how to make that shot better, and you make a chunk of change from it, then the book has done its job. I think this book will pay for itself in the long run. Thanks, Ric.
Extremely helpful resource
Customer Rating: I've not been shooting models for very long, so I'd say that I am in the beginner/intermediate category.
So far, I've been tearing out photos from Vogue, Numero, French and others and tried to duplicate and then improvise, but I've always felt that posing and placement of the models was kind of mysterious and "difficult" to get a real grip on. (how to elongate a model, how to make the butt smaller, how to pose the model in a way that leads the eye trough the photo etc)
-So I've basically used "what looks good" thus far (and I see after reading this book, that some of my past shoots have lots of room for improvement :) )
- It can be easy to get lost in the process during a shoot, thinking and stressing to get the light right, -and forget to instruct and help and tweak the model correctly, often resulting in photos that need to be cropped to hide bad hands, or simply scrapped due to a bad pose, caused by bad instructions, for example.
(I mainly work with new/inexperienced models and often need to instruct and tweak their pose, this is a great learning tool for both model and photographer)
I mean, I've managed "fair" trough improvisation, try/fail, but it was only after reading this book that I started to really understand more on how and why this and that works - and why some of my previous attempts have failed.
The book is comprehensive and well laid out, it covers and explains the cause and effect from posing the feet and legs, to fingers, hands and arms and also the body and face.
I think that the photos in the book compliment the text very well, what I really liked, was that the author not only show the "best" pose, he also often show everything from bad, to fair, to good to excellent posing -and all complemented with very understandable text captions.
I've seen enough tutorials from the classic 70's to know that this wasn't what I was looking for, this book is fresh, modern (imo) and is written by a guy that not only knows his craft, he also knows the industry very well.
Highly recommended!
OH
Norway
Full of practical tips and pearls
Customer Rating: 
Pros: Well written easy to read and follow. I learned a great deal regarding posing and composition, what makes a pose good vs not so good (which may differ depending on the photo shoot target customer / audience).
Excellent content on posing hands, head, shoulders and legs.
Good intro on how to pursue putting together a decent portfolio for both the model and the photographer.
Cons: Some of the photos were quite dated, struck me as being one or two decades old.
All in all, I am very happy with this book. Highly recommended reading for the aspiring portrait and event photographer.
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