Boudoir is not only a celebration of physical beauty, it’s a celebration of vitality and health.  When shooting boudoir, our preferred style is a ‘classical art gallery’ approach and when we met with our client, she mirrored this sentiment and I knew right at that moment that we were going to have an amazing shoot.  I’d been dying to shoot boudoir at our new studio location and the added space and high ceilings really made this a treat.  The brown set we built literally minutes before she arrived and I went with a ‘distressed leather’ fabric and matching peel and stick tiles (and we originally went there to snag some black and white checkerboard tiles for a totally different concept, but changed our minds as soon as I saw how warm and classical the brown tones looked!)

Camera geekery: I did a combination of a three and four light setup with a big ol’ softbox suspended horizontally about ten feet above her head to use as a hair light, 22″ silver beauty dish as main light, we alternated between a 5 foot reflector and another rectangular softbox for a fill light, a snooted bare strobe for the background and the occasional gridded strobe to add a little snap to her hair.

But the real beauty is our model – her class and elegance cannot be put into words; right from the word ‘go’, her poses and confidence were absolutely inspiring!  My partner Sarah provided makeup for the shoot and it just looked amazing – we went with warm bronzy tones around the eyes and nice understated sculpting around the cheekbones and I love how everything turned out.

We’re already planning another shoot and I can’t wait!