CHAPTER 12

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER

Our journey toward perfecting the art of posing is almost complete, but now it’s time to test some of the lessons you’ve learned before you try them out in the real world.

This final chapter is meant to help you analyze problems on the day of the shoot rather than later lamenting the issues you missed. I’m going to take you through some images from real shoots I’ve done with a variety of subjects and body types.

Using the examples that follow, I invite you to analyze the problem areas that exist and to visualize how to improve the pose to better flatter your subject. I’ll share the problems I identified and a solution I used in the actual shoot. This is where you’ll test what you’ve learned and figure out what ...

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