Inspirational Visual Model Posing Guide
feat. NudeArt-Model Vicka Starr – by Dan Hostettler
Fashion-like Model Poses Will Boost Your Creative Concepts
This in-depth guide will show you what fashion posing has to offer for glamour modeling!
Dan has produced this eBook with the help of the amazingly talented, sensuous and beautiful model, Vicka Starr. Vicka is a very experienced professional art-nude model who demonstrates a vast variety of poses in this guide.
With most glamour modeling, posing is often limited and less creatively applied than in fashion modeling. Mixing the two genres along with freestyle fashion-like expressions, allows your models to freely switch from one fanciful, emotive and unique pose to another without restrictions.
Model Posing Basics: Apply Knowledge Visually
Nude and glamour posing is all about the outer and inner beauty of your subject. When your model is posing, she is letting you capture this beauty with your camera.
But posing isn’t all that easy. There’s much more to it than simply standing or lying down for the photos. When you capture great poses, viewers love it! And that’s precisely the goal this guide is designed to help you achieve.
Exciting lines, forms, and expressions… They all play together creating either a desired mood or simply producing a pleasant image. You will intuitively learn how to begin posing your model correctly, how to position her arms and legs and how to create moods and emotions to achieve superior and memorable model photos overall!
Fashion Esprit Will Turn Your Glamour Posing Routine Upside Down
Calling on his experience shooting female beauty photography, Dan will demonstrate the effectiveness of combining fashion posing with glamour modeling.
You will get full sets of visual references helping you near-effortlessly implement these new and exciting ideas and poses into your future shoots.
“Fashion-like Nudes & Glamour Poses” shares with you important insights with new ways to creatively explore your nude and glamour photography.
Essentials, Insights & Need-to-Knows
- Glamour vs. Fashion: The Difference
- Getting It Started: The Basics of Model Posing
- Hands, Arms, Legs: Always Difficult
- Model Silhouettes Forms: C, S, and I Poses
- Posing Basics: Head and Shoulders
- Posing Basics: Start with the Feet
- Posing Basics: Head Tilt
- Posing Basics: Body at an Angle to the Camera
- Posing Basics: Arms and the Triangle Base
- Posing Basics: Importance of the Hands
- 7 Stunning, Bold, Sexy and Expressive Unique Fashion Nude Sets
- Dan’s Final Thoughts
What You will Get
- Visual reference covering “Glamour Posing meets Fashion Esprit”
- Inspirational, informative and intuitive Posing Guide
- High quality fashion and nude imagery in 7 different sets
- “Fashion Esprit” – Images with Russian NudeArt-Model Vicka Starr
- “Real World” scenarios for any of your shoots! No fancy props, settings and techniques necessary
- Concept, imagery and educational approach by Dan Hostettler
- Over 190 dedicated fashion-to-nude poses (over 105 Pages)
- Learn posing essentials in detail (20 pages)
- 130 pages in total (Full Color 8×11″) with over 230 stunning photos
- Behind the scenes images
- Instant PDF Download for immediate use on your PC, Mac, iProducts & Droids
About the Author: Dan Hostettler
Dan has been a professional beauty and nude photographer for more than 15 years.
He is Swiss born and currently living and working in Prague (Czech Republic). Dan founded his flagship business, StudioPrague, which includes a dedicated production company that has received international recognition and offers private, high-end workshops. Dan has photographed some of the world’s most beautiful nude model women and always strives to capture that “bold sexy moment”, both in the studio and on location.
In this eBook, Dan shares his extensive knowledge and insights in an easy-to-follow, visual and intuitive way. It will help inspire you to create new and exciting seductive posing ideas.
Fast-track your journey for capturing cross-genre poses! Let Dan teach you new and exciting, sensual and sexy stories in your future shoots NOW!
The guide will be delivered to your email address in digital form.
If you don’t like this guide for any reason, I offer an unconditional 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE.
Thank you Dan for a most inspiring and insightful guide on nude photography! Your work is of the highest quality, and your teaching techniques truly unique. Keep up the good work!
Dear Johan, thanks a lot for your feedback and kind words! I am happy this guide is a value for you! Best from Prague, Dan
Thanks for producing this excellent guide. It fits well with your other publications and while much of what you write seems obvious while I am reading it, these are the very things I miss when I press the shutter.
Hello Martin, thanks for your feedback! Yeah in theory we understand most of the things but in the rush of a shoot some topics just get forgotten. This still happens to me too. The only way to get “better” with this is: shoot, shoot, shoot. Only experience can polish ones craftsmanship.
Bets, Dan
Hi Dan and really am enjoying the learning in this new field. My question is, “It is a lot easier to make these beautiful shots with top line models and their experiences.” I am starting to do some shooting and the subjects do not have any experience, and have aged a bit, with an increase in body size. Do you have any suggestions for the ‘fuller’ built subject as to positions and better photos. Keep up the wonderful training.
Hi Owen, glad you like your new chosen topic!
Regarding “top line models <> ‘normal people'”: it’s indeed true that working with experienced models is more easy in production and results. When planning your first shoot I advice to invest a bit and to go with a pro. She will take you the load off in posing and communication so you can better concentrate in settings and composition.
“Inexperienced subjects/clients”: regarding posing it’s the same like you shoot a pro. Turn her body to a certain angle to look her appear slimmer. Probably you start shooting her in a sitting position or leaned against a wall. They feel more comfortable than just standing in the middle of a room.
Get more basic tips & impressions here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcP9MrXbgxA&list=PLQHzW4vWK5fYyes-T-i8GHQKdGJlBnMNo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o87FsA1Rfz4
I hope this helps:)
BTW: I am planning to do a small series of “how to shoot your beautiful average subject (wife, girlfriend, fiance, colleague etc) in the first half of 2014. Will be announced here. So stay tuned and thanks for your patience.
Best from Prague, Dan
As ever Dan’s style comes from within the pages as he writes present images and inspiration.
I do feel my own nudes have improved greatly since buying some of the excellent guides and the wonderful course.
Envious of course of the stunning models that Dan has available ( UK has many pretty girls but Eastern Europe just seems to be a gene pool of stunning models).
Am looking forward it putting more ideas into practice and what has been really good is that girls I know who normally wouldn’t consider nude having seen these images want to try ( though I do say I am not Dan sadly )
Hello William, thanks a lot for your feedback!
Great you can use my resources for inspirational and technical progress in your photography. Regarding the models: I don’t think I have big advantage though the concentration of eastern beauties here in this small (almost) western town is enormous.
Living in the UK, you’re not far away from here. Catch a shuttle once and join a shoot here 😉
Best, Dan
While I liked Dan’s other posing guides, in my opinion, this guide on adapting fashion posing to glamour photography is Dan’s best posing guide to date. Usually, I use posing guides as a visual reference, especially for newer models who may need a visual cue for their posing. But this guide goes to great length to explain some of the whys of posing as well as providing the visual examples. This is definitely a guide that both photographers and aspiring models should read.
Thank you Joe!
Hello Dan,
Thanks for producing this wonderful book for any photographer’s who take their work seriously, to learn about how to make a model pose and to capture it. The description in words and pictures are first class. This is one book I would certainly refer to if needing any inspiration while working with fashion or glamour models. So anyone who have not purchase a copy, do not leave yourself out.
London, UK
Hello Roy, thank you so much for your kind words.
It is so rewarding to hear this and makes all the work behind it worth while!
Best from Prague,
Dan
This is an excellent guide that I have already read several times. The model and the photography are beautiful. The posing is very helpful for beginners and pros alike. I consider myself an advanced amateur and this guide has pushed me to better images and more creative styling. I highly recommend this book to shooters of all levels, but especially more experienced photographers looking for something beyond the basics.
Hi Martin, thanks a lot for your feedback and recommendation!
Great you get inspired and have your takeaways from this guide and my work.
Bets from Prague, Dan
Have you ever looked at doing printed books?
Maybe I’m old fashioned but I still like printed books that I can browse through and quickly navigate to find the information I want.
Hey Ray,
Thanks for your comment and input. Yes, I’m thinking about making a selection of my guides print-ready (Print on Demand) with Blurb or CreateSpace. Yet this will take a while (not before Jan 2017) and the pricing will be quite high then. I guess this printed copies will be more a kind of a collector’s item type of thing…
Best, Dan