This is a rough guide to help new or existing models become aware of little changes that can be made to help them become even better models. It applies to both men and women although in my experience men naturally open up in their posing, whereas women can be a bit closed up. For this reason, all of the following examples are adjustments to real-life poses chosen by female models that could have been vastly improved with a few tweaks.

Don't overstretch yourself. With experience, you can start to push things bit by bit as you learn more about your body's strengths and weaknesses. For this page I've selected a few basic poses and clumsily edited them to illustrate how the same pose could be improved by a few tweaks. Some of the tweaks shouldn't effect your stamina at all, whereas other tweaks will require a bit more stretching.