Using the poses in the new book 1,000 Poses in Fashion to make photos a bit more interesting

This week's book you can enter to win is 1,000 Poses in Fashion.

Leave your answer to the day's question in the comments section by midnight EST Thursday July 22, 2010 and you are entered to win a copy of 1,000 Poses in Fashion.

The question: Fashion, Love it? Hate it? Slave to it? Most hated "look" or style? Favorite garment?

My answer is in the pictures below.

Now onto this idea I had.

My friend Maria said she wanted to go to a museum. One of the absolute prettiest museums is the Getty so we planned a trip. She is the one who generally takes the pictures you see of me when I am at an event and we both are always on the lookout for how we can take fun and unusual pictures. I had just gotten my copy of 1,000 Poses in Fashion and I thought it would be fun to try to pose like the fashion sketches in the book.

These are two of the pages that I took my inspiration from for the pose in the photo below.

 

I really like wide shots with lots of the background included.

I really liked how the angles and lines of my pose correlate to the angles and lines of the stairs. So if you like fashion sketching or want to get a little more creative in the poses you use in your photography you will have 1000 really great ideas to inspire you from this book:

 

1,000 Poses in Fashion

by

Chidy Wayne

Ambiguous, sensual, coquette, and suggestive: the one thousand fashion drawing poses in this book are a deep journey into the wealth of possibilities for illustrating male and female bodies, and designers’ capacity to transmit sensations with an ever so slight flick of the wrist. 1,000 Poses in Fashion compiles all the usual fashion poses and illustrated features, represented in full color, supplemented by the many variations of each pose, in black and white. The poses show the effects of the way in which the clothes sit on the models, guiding the reader in aspects such as how to give proportion or volume to a garment. 1,000 Poses in Fashion is an essential reference for photographers, fashion designers, illustrators, models, and art directors who are interested in corporal expression in relation to fashion. 

Award-winning fashion illustrator and designer Chidy Wayne has created his own niche in the international fashion scene. The education he received from the Instituto Europeo di Design in Barcelona along with hands-on experience as a men’s fashion design assistant at Antoni Miro, and a costume designer for the Festival Grec in 2006, laid a solid foundation for this up-and-coming star. Chidy Wayne is the author of Essential Fashion Illustration: Men. www.chidywayne.com

Comments

[Shelley Kelley]

I love fashion! too bad my pocketbook and I can't see eye to eye on it though! The only fashion I don't care for is the ones where the guys(and some girls) are wearing their pants "on the ground" or well you know where they are showing us stuff we don't need or want to see! I am not overly fond of turtlenecks either. The garment I like most is a scooped neck anything along with a scarf, it's so retro and romantic! but I like aprons too.

[Nellie]

I love fashion too but I am not a slave to it, especially trends. That is why I learned to sew, so that I can express myself and inspire others to do the same. My most hated look, I would have to say is an oversized t-shirt. C'mom ladies, at least belt it if it's too big. That's just a pet peeve of mine. And I love dresses. They are so effortless and simple and the posibilites are endless.

I would love to win this book since I model most of my stuff on my etsy shop and am running out of poses! LOL.

[Suella]

You have just enhanced my upcoming anniversary snaps! This will be fun to emulate.

[Suella]

I love taking older garments and altering to make them more on-trend and fashionable, by adding or subtracting detail, color or shape. Sometimes using the fabric only is appropriate.Scarves, belts, jewelery also are useful here. Up-cycling is the name of the game.

Not only does up-cycling older garments keep perfectly wearable garments out of the garbage, but makes money for charities and unique garments for myself. This is time worth spent fulfilling both a reative and practical need.

We can wear distinctive and unusual clothing with a great "Look at Me!" factor without a great deal of time or money spent.

I love fitted garments on those with the right shape to wear them. Generally we can use belts to emphasise waist areas without pulling them in too much if that is inappropriate. For me, with a long neck, turtlenecks are great in the cold winter months.

I dislike round necked garments as they don't suit me. There are certain colors that are wrong for me as well. Wearing the right white for me makes a great deal of difference to how my skin looks.

[Ajf 6]

Music world, in the mind is free, you can go to try!

[Janel]

I like watching fashion shows on TV for inspiration in colors and jewelry styles. In real life, I'm pretty much a jeans and t-shirt kind of woman.

[Birgit]

I am definitely no fashion slave, but don't be all love a little bit of fashion now and then? Favorite garment? Jeans! :)

Thanks for the chance to win this awesome book.

-- Birgit

[Eileen]

I know a 12-year old girl in Armenia who wants to be a fashion designer. Her drawings are quite good.

I sure wish I could win this for Tara. But then I'd have to figure out how to get it to her!

[f lynn rush]

i have lots of fashion if it only includes plain, ordinary jeans and blank t-shirts of many colors...ok...several shades of blue, a few shades of green, and two shades of red. and, i can't forget my skecher sneakers paired with plain white "gold toe" crew socks. BUT...i do enjoy seeing fashion design. i did a little drawing many, many years ago that passed for this.

[jordan sneakers]

That's an awful lot of excitement!