Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide for Digital Photographers Jeff Smith
Publisher: Amherst Media, Incorporated

Flach calls his photographs portraits, and yet they often lack faces. While I'm at it, I'm going to sue everything on the planet that has taken a photograph of someone pretending to hold up the leaning tower at Pisa, because I have had the rights to that "pose" since 2000BC. The same panda is shot from behind, unmoving; the clean, brushed white fur on the back of his head is more a coat the panda is wearing rather than part of its own body. I once heard a photographer say “Jump in over your head and swim for the top!” Direct quote :: “Cameras these days are so good and getting better so the old photographers who tell you that professionals should be shooting in “Manual” mode are clueless.” . He defined Fielder's image a 'photographic work,' as distinct from a simply a photograph, in that 'its appearance is the product of deliberate choices and also deliberate manipulations by the author,' and concluded that The judge needs his head examined. The other thing I would be interested in is how to get portraiture that is not that. I like photographs of people that don't look stage – as in sit like this and stand like that. The closeness borders on the infinitesimal. It's like a rusty nail stuck in one's foot. The translucent skin of a horse embryo. I'm sure you don't want to be like the old traditional wedding photographer who mainly focused on portraits and detail shots because that is not what's popular today.