Recently found this website and thought i might share this with the members of Madcows..we all get stuck irrespective of if we are a photographer or a model on what type of pose you want..most newer models think all you have to do is pout at the camera and that makes them a model unfortunately this is not the case...i have worked with a lot of top flight models over the years and ive seen a model on set for four hours changing to a different pose every 10/15 seconds for that whole time...never seeing the same pose twice ..NOW thats posing lol..but anyways here you will find a few tips on posing so to all you models out there practise these or at least some of them and next time you do go on a shoot you can make it more enjoyable for both parties.

How To Pose

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Thank you Fab

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They missed out 'Blue Steel'

Thanks very much, very helpful
xOh!

Fantastic! very helpful AND!!! im not quite young and can do thrm aII!!

Lol at angel im quite old and cannot do any of those poses but..im so glad some memebrs have found the article helpfull its had a lot of hits since i posted it on here

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Arrrrgggghhhh!, not the hand behind the head?????

Apart from that, which is my pet hate, some good stuff there for new models.

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Agreed about the hand behind the head, I do that one as a joke pose when I'm out with my friends now...

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Great link, very useful for new models. One thing that's worth noting, is that the next pose is only a tiny bit different from the one before.. and that's the trick to being a good model, making tiny changes in a pose between each frame.

James

I have to confess...im not 35..39 in november...aaaagggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! and agree with hands behind head..im going to put up THE BEST mode poses for a day or 2..go see!hehe!! its my test shot poses!

Alyce i do that pose everyday in the shower lol and angelannie i too have a confession its says im 60 on my profile but im really 22 or so my mind tells me but then my brain reminds me once im struggling to get up from a lying position that im really past my use by date ha ha ha ..James thats always the sign of a good model perhaps we should run a pose a day for the newer models starting out to try to help them along a little

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Morning All, As helpful as ALL this information is lets not forget that most new starting out dont know how to pose naturally and all they need is a break. Also I'd like to put out especially being an amature myself that the best poses ever seen are the more natural ones, you know ones that dont actually look like your trying to poses as a MODEL !! Hand behind the head thing if you think about it was probably started by some SO CALLED PRO MODEL ANYWAY ...... to make a shoot fun and enjoy it should'nt be as structured and ridig as your making it sound, constant false convential pose after pose make a shoot extremely hard work, boring not to mention draining ..... @ Fab i recently saw a brief clip of Tina Kay during a recent shoot she did, pls try and find it and pose it on here if you can. New model can check that link out and see how a pro really does it well, she's fun, relax and enjoying it

the art of posing is to do it so it looks perfectly natural as though its a thing the body would do in its natural course of the day..most time i shoot without an agenda i hate having to name themes for a shoot i prefere to go along with the flow if its a theme you could end up getting stuck if it dont work out with a particular model all of my shoots are fun and relaxed ask anyone thats ever worked with me..as for Penthouse Pet Tina Kay she is a full professional and has had a lot of experience thats all she does for a job is modelling..incidently im shooting with her the end of August but if you can point me in the right direction of the video i will gladly post it

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Agreed. Its on Tina Kay's page i think on Purestorm, failing that I believe it can be found on youtube.

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Congraulations on your confirmed booking with Tina Kay, im sure it will go well !

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This one, ElleJai ?



Its quite a good video, definitely a good idea for new models to take a look at that.

Quoting fabiano from post 11

I've always thought of building something like an "education centre", so including guides like the one above about how to pose, videos like the one above showing a photoshoot in action so "newbies" know what to expect etc.. I guess it'd be a mash-up of the glossary, the articles, and a few other bits.
Thoughts?

James

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Hi James, thanks 4 ur reply and great idea by the way, I look 4ward 2 hearing and seeing more of this idea of yours on here sometime soon. ElleJai

Thanks! this is a big help!

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Some good poses there. Great find!

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Hey great page, thanks for sharing.
It will be very helpful. Alot of great ideas.

Aurora

Very glad people are still finding this article of use and help as there dosent appear to be many like this out on the internet make sure you save the site into your faves.. i am working on a video for James at Madcows regarding posing hopefully this should be completed soon but im in need of a good model to be in this if anyones interested then inbox me.

Some good ideas for models there, thanks.