I personally believe that boudoir is for ANY woman, and that EVERY woman deserves to feel beautiful and have amazing photos of ourselves, and see how unique and beautiful they are.
Frankly, I get few young twenty somethings as clients, and most women assume that’s who gets a boudoir photoshoot done. They are dead wrong.
As the photographer, I find there is something amazing about being able to work with more mature women. (I am meaning women over the age 30). They know who they are inside. They are at their best – they comfortable with who they are, who they aren’t, and own it. When women like this get to see themselves as beautiful, its a powerful thing. It means so much more to them, it empowers them. They soar.
We all know that makeup and hairstyling can do powerful things. We know what we look like everyday without makeup when we wake up. We experience that daily. But sometimes we need that bit of glamour, that feeling of a night on the town, and to be decked out to the nines. Its wonderful to feel, and know in our hearts that we can clean up nice when we want to, and still enjoy being simple other days. So the ‘glamover’ is one of the fun parts of experiencing a boudoir photoshoot. Its girl time. Its pampering. It is one less stress to worry about, to know that your eyeliner is not crooked because someone took care of that for you! Its also a big emotional prep time, to prepare you for your photoshoot.
Your photoshoot is all about you, being under the spotlight. I walk you through each pose, and make sure we get the best lighting and angles to flatter any body type you may have. We work on YOUR comfort level, and be as conservative as you like, or as risque as you like, while keeping it classy.
I don’t rush through sessions, and I do not do marathon photography. I like each client to have my time, and to make sure I get the best possible most flattering images. In fact, I will often show a peak at at image to clients as we go. When clients can see what I am doing, they feel more confident that I am doing a good job, and can understand me more when I ask them to adjust their posing. People do not often realize if they are slouching, and good posture can do wonders to any person.
I photographer with a creative eye, great posing, along with flattering angles and lighting, can do absolute wonders in creating beautiful images. However, women all have little or big parts of our bodies that bother us. It may be a scar, a lump, cellulite, a stretchmark. My policy to is to keep images looking as natural as possible, but retouching is part of the service by request. Blemishes are not who we are, our families and loved ones see past them all the time. But we often are super focused on them. So if a client wants them retouched I do that. Without them, a client still appears to be her. It doesn’t change enough of the image to stop looking like them in the images. I feel a woman chooses a boudoir photoshoot to experience pampering and to feel glamourous, and if she doesnt want to see those imperfections its my job to hide them, either by photography or retouching. However, I am not going to remove anything without permission first, and I hesitate about any retouching that would drastically change a persons appearance.
I feel the point of a boudoir photoshoot is to see the glamourous beautiful side of yourself that everyone else does. To feel balanced, to give us confidence. To celebrate how unique we are.
~ Re