Photographing Men, 2nd Edition

More and more businesses and potential clients are seeking out great portrait, commercial, and fashion photography featuring men. For working photographers, photographing men may be one of today's greatest new opportunities. But, while there are dozens of books, guides, and workshops on photographing women, there's been practically nothing comparable for men... until now!

Photographing Men: Posing, Lighting, and Shooting Techniques for Portrait and Fashion Photography, 2nd Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling first edition by photographer and author Jeff Rojas. The book remains the definitive full-color guide to every aspect of modern male photography. In this book, Jeff covers posing, styling, lighting, post-production, and more, showing how to achieve outstanding results and maximum creative expression. You'll discover how to:

-Make male clients look natural, masculine, and confident

-Skillfully document your male clients' best attributes--both physical and emotional

-Identify and complement different face shapes, body shapes, and other features

-Compensate for "perceived flaws," including acne, baldness, double chins, gray hair, wrinkles, and large features

-Overcome the challenges of styling male subjects, including big, skinny, and short men

-Understand how a suit should really fit your subject--and what to do if suits are out of the question

-Properly light all shapes and sizes of men for portraits, fashion, and commercial images (with complete lighting diagrams, behind-the-scenes images, and gear lists)

-Shoot 3/4-length and full-length poses

-Photograph entrepreneurs, managers, businessmen, innovators, "classic" and "handsome" men, athletes, underwear models, and celebrities

-Complement every man's features with tried-and-true post-production techniques

-And much more

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: DEFINING FEATURES

Chapter 1 - Face Shapes

Chapter 2 - Body Types

Chapter 3 - Perceived Flaws

Chapter 4 - Appealing to Men

PART II: POSING AND STYLING

Chapter 5 - Posing and Directing Your Subjects

Chapter 6 - Understanding Body Language

Chapter 7 - Standing Poses

Chapter 8 - Sitting Poses

Chapter 9 - Laying Poses

Chapter 10 - 5 Go-To Poses by Profession

Chapter 11 - Styling

Chapter 12 - Styling Difficult Features

PART III: LIGHTING

Chapter 13 - Introduction to Lighting Men

Chapter 14 - Portrait Photography

Chapter 15 - Commercial Photography

Chapter 16 - Fashion Photography