digital boudoir photography

[...]... it was a French word meaning bedroom Early boudoir portraits mainly featured women wearing lingerie in bedroom locations Since then it has grown and grown 2 Digital Boudoir Photography The height of the popularity of boudoir photography was in the late 1980s It began dying out in the 1990s At one time, many professional photography studios offered boudoir photography to their clients Once the fad slowed... creating boudoir portraits Once digital photography started to become popular after the beginning of the 21st century, ordinary people, mainly men, began taking sexy photographs of their love interests The privacy and immediacy of digital photography along with the easy distribution of images were the primary driving forces behind this resurgence But boudoir photography has changed The term boudoir photography ... a very large, teased hairdo It is a far cry from the natural-looking boudoir photography of today So the definition of boudoir photography we will stick with throughout this book is generally soft, sensual, and sexy portraits of a woman Now the range of what can be considered a boudoir portrait is much wider Background 3 Boudoir photography has some real benefits for both the photographer and the... age, of course), how tall or how thin, the purpose of boudoir photography is to make YOU look great You don’t have to lose ten pounds or have plastic surgery either This book will show you how to create those images Boudoir photography seems to be growing in popularity again, after a decline through the late 1990s The reason is simple: digital photography This gives ordinary people the ability to take... professional photography You are just starting out as a professional photographer—an “emerging photographer” is a term often used— and you want to learn how to deal with this fun and interesting subject n As a new area of professional photography for your studio You are a more experienced professional photographer, but you want to learn how to add boudoir photography to your studio’s offerings 8 Digital Boudoir. .. Boudoir Photography Section 6 Resources Digital Photography Basics Resolution File Format Compression Color Balance White Balance Batteries Noise Sharpening Digital Zoom Memory Card Card Reader Location Suggestions Props Costume Suggestions Scenario Suggestions Glossary Suggested Reading Photoshop Glamour, Nude, and Figure Photography Photographing Women Model Photography Index 235 236 237 237 237 238... more private part of themselves Many of them started out as strangers to me, but they are all friends now Amelia Marie Danaë xvi Digital Boudoir Photography Deborah Shemesh Iona Lynn Jessica Joanna Introduction Linda Melanie Stephanie Tanya Renee Thrall xvii At one time, boudoir photography referred primarily to photographs of women in lingerie, usually in a bedroom scene Section 1 Background The sensual... Glamour, Nude, and Figure Photography Photographing Women Model Photography Index 235 236 237 237 237 238 238 238 238 239 239 239 239 240 242 244 246 248 265 265 265 267 267 269 xiv Digital Boudoir Photography Introduction Boudoir photography is the art of creating beautiful, sensual, and sexy images of regular women You don’t have to be an 18-year-old, pencil-thin supermodel to look fabulous in photographs... little special equipment to do boudoir photography Creating great images is more related to technique than to equipment Keep that in mind as you go through this step Cameras Some of the author’s cameras An automatic electronic flash attached to the camera Obviously you need a digital camera Most likely, you already have one and are wondering if it will work for boudoir photography It really depends... easily set up a darkroom without disrupting the household All of this, plus the smell and mess of toxic chemicals; no wonder that doing it yourself with digital has taken off The downside to digital photography is the proliferation of really poor-quality photography There are so many photographs that accentuate a woman’s weak areas and fail to show off her best ones Visit any file-sharing website and you . Figure Photography 265 Photographing Women 267 Model Photography 267 Index 269 xii Digital Boudoir Photography