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    You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour: Posing
    You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour: Posing
    You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour: Posing
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    You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour: Posing

    By Robert Kerner

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    This ebook continues photographic education to the realm of posing people. While - there are a few mentions of techniques covered in the first ebook of this series - The Basics - if you have a good knowledge of how a camera works: exposure, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, rule of thirds, leading in, framing, and how to crop pictures for printing, there is no need to read the basics book first. If you don't have that knowledge but know how to get good pictures from your camera, the Basics ebook will be good for your pictures, but not required for the content of this ebook about posing.

    This ebook is solely about how to flatter anyone's body for pictures. It describes how to hide body parts that you want hidden and how to enhance body parts that you want shown off. While no ebook can be all inclusive because every body is different and people have different impressions of what they like and don't like, this ebook covers the techniques to pose any body and use the camera angle to get the results you want. The information in this ebook will improve your pictures from mugshots to well posed photographs.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Kerner
    Release dateMar 29, 2014
    ISBN9781311778550
    You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour: Posing
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    Robert Kerner

    There's a reason I chose an F4U Corsair as my profile picture. I am a lot like this WWII warbird - the Corsair was a rough, tough, and ready fighter plane back in the day when it was pilot vs. pilot in a dogfight, not electronics vs. electronics. I am like the F4U in that I might not look the sleekest, might not be the most politically correct, and might not be the most popular person in a room, but I am rough, ready, short and to the point, no-nonsense writer to give you the information you need to take better pictures. The Corsair was about results in a dogfight, my books are about results in photography.I've seen so many books in which it was clear the primary focus of the book was making the page count worthy of a high price tag for the book. I couldn't find a short, simple to understand guide giving the information you need to know to take better pictures without confusing rhetoric and fluff to fill pages. Photography is my only focus, giving you the information so you can go out and take better pictures with just about any camera you own. After I finished the first book about the basics of photography, ideas for other books came to mind as I was asked numerous questions about more advanced topics. So started my series of ebooks about photography.Currently I have two ebooks published and available in all of the e-reader formats and as a .pdf for computer reading and printing. The first is the basics book mentioned above and it was followed up by a book about posing people to flatter just about anybody you photograph. I am in the process of writing a third book about getting into modeling and being a successful at it, which will be published early this summer. This fall I will be back to photography topics, publishing a book about concert and stage show photography. Following that I will be publishing books about advanced outdoor and indoor photography using inexpensive accessories so everyone can get great pictures. I love getting reviews and ideas from readers about future books to write.

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      Book preview

      You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour - Robert Kerner

      You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour – Posing Techniques to Flatter Everyone You Photograph

      Published by Robert Kerner at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2014 by Robert Kerner

      Other books about photography and modeling available at:

      http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/robertkerner

      This ebook is licensed for your knowledge only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Contents:

      Preface

      1 People come in all shapes and sizes

      2 Posing basics

      3 Standing poses

      4 Sitting poses

      5 Kneeling poses

      6 Lying poses

      7 You need to sweat the small stuff

      8 Putting it all together and final thoughts

      Preface

      Photography is an art as well as a practice. The more you learn and practice what you’ve learned, the better you will be at capturing the picture you envisioned. This guide to posing is the second step in the process of taking better pictures.

      The pose of your subject can make or break the picture. Over the course of this book, you will learn posing techniques to flatter the people you are taking the picture of. Remember that every person’s body is different and a pose that flatters one person can have the opposite effect on another person.

      In the first You Can Take Better Pictures in One Hour book, we went over the basics to understand how the camera works, how to adjust or override the settings to get the picture the way you want it, the art techniques of photography, lighting, cropping, and printing. Posing was briefly mentioned to keep your photographs from being mug shots. This book is all about posing. Posing your subjects will take your pictures to new heights. The right pose will flatter your subject to make them look their best. The wrong pose will make your subject look fat, out of proportion, or just plain bad. Learning about posing will give you the skills to take great pictures of everyone.

      Some of the topics from the basics book will be mentioned here as a reminder. It is assumed you have a basic knowledge of lighting, exposure, settings, and the rules of photography before moving forward in to posing. If you need a review of those topics, refer to my basics book. It can be purchased through my website: www.bobkernerphoto.com.

      This book is about posing. It is difficult to write about posing and not confuse you more than help you. So I’m going to cut out most of the chatter and go with the saying: a picture says a thousand words by showing you poses with a short description of what is being demonstrated. I hate to sound sexist but I will concentrate more on posing women. In general, women are more critical of their pictures than men are, making the pose more important to women.

      I would like to take some space here to thank some people. First and foremost, my family, for whom I do all that I do. I would also like to thank all of the people you’ll see in the pictures throughout this book. Some are professional models, but many are just beautiful people

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