good book for learning?

[tekkie]

I currently do pretty much birding / wildlife photos so I dont have much experience (none actually) with glamor / models and such but I met a model yesterday by chance that's on MM and I am thinking of giving it a whirl. I have been looking in this section for a while thinking someday I am going to give this a try. I dont have to much concern about taking the pic itself the challenge will be 1) lighting and 2) instruction for the poses. She is pretty new to the scene but she is very pretty and I think has some good potential, and she is easy to talk to so I dont anticipate any problems there.

Does anyone have any suggestions for some good books for that? I looked on amazon and there are a ton of them and I am sure all of them will help but figured you guys might have some feedback :)

Right now I am looking at
Master Lighting Guide for Portait Photographers
http://www.amazon.com/Master-Lighting-Guide-Portrait-Photographers/dp/1584281251/ref=pd_sim_b_1

and
Posing Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1584282207/ref=rdr_ext_sb_ti_sims_1

if anyone has other suggestions / feeback I would sure glad to hear it :)

[reneethomas]

Here is what I have that I have found helpful:

Posing Techniques for Digital Portraits (Quick Guide) by Jeff Smith
Fashion Photography Course by Eliot Siegel

Not model related but worth mentioning
Learning To See Creatively by Bryan Peterson
The Photography Bible by Daniel Lezano

[FeXL]

Skin, by Lee Varis.
Lighting the Nude, published by RotoVision.