Why Boudoir
(Woman holding a floor pose)
Why Boudoir Photography?
Sometimes I find it hard to put into words why I shoot boudoir photography. To me, it is so much more than photos. It’s about self-acceptance, body positivity, and art. It is about getting glammed up and laughing your butt off. It’s about the transformation that takes place between the time you walk into the studio, and walk back out that door. It is about feeling beautiful, and that is something I personally believe every person deserves.
I started shooting boudoir photography because I wanted to reconnect women with feeling amazing.
I believed I could show any person what I see through my camera lens. Women tell me they could never look “that beautiful” because they feel too tall, weigh too much, or have too many stretch marks. I love showing them the photos from their shoot and showing that they CAN, in fact, feel and look just as beautiful. Seeing their reactions to their pictures changed my brain chemistry forever, and now I am addicted to boudoir photography as a profession. From that moment on, I knew I had found my passion in life.
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The Transformation
The transformation that takes place in the studio is the best part of the whole experience for everyone involved. When a woman arrives in the studio, most of the time she is nervous, sometimes even visibly nervous. Shaky hands and voice, sweaty hands and faces are things I see all the time. Once they sit in the chair to get their hair and makeup done, the transformation begins. The client slowly starts to shed those signs and feelings of nervousness and anxiousness.
Then the shoot would start. The first series is to get you all warmed up. When I show the client the back of the camera after the first few shots, she usually says something like “OH MY GOD, that’s me? NO WAY that’s me!”. As we go into the next series and then the next, the laughter and smiles start to come out, as she starts to feel sexy. They sexy eyes come out.. and you can tell that it’s starting to click.
By the time we finish the session and go into the reveal, we’re pretty much friends. We’ve just shared an experience that this client will always remember. We’ve laughed and shared stories about our lives.
Once they see their pictures on the big screen, their jaws drop. They see themselves like they never have before. This is one of the amazing thing about boudoir photography. We get a chance to show them how I see them, how their spouse sees them, and be their mirror. When they walk out that door, they are smiling so big and they can’t wait to tell all their friends about what they just did.
