glamour/boudoir

pearljamfan

hiya,

has anyone here done any glamour shoots? or even boudoir stuff, ?

magicbastarder

this will be a popular thread. for good reasons and bad.

pearljamfan

hehe, just wondering as ive never seen anything mentioned here before.
Had 2 enquiries today so its got me thinking.

magicbastarder

there was a thread about it before, i remember people being referred to a crowd who specialise in boudoir shots.

is it something you're comfortable with doing, and are looking for technical tips?

pearljamfan

oh yes boudoir.ie i think, id forgot about them, see, ive done some 'intimate' stuff for just friends, but i think its a bit different going into strangers houses, maybe i should just stay away unless i hire a studio.

PCPhoto

I pass a place every morning on my way to work... will get the name in the morning and post it.

I cant recommend or say anything bad about the place - I've never used them.

pearljamfan

thanks, anything is helpful!

PCPhoto

Secret Boudoir
No.1 Harrington Street, South Circular Road, Dublin, Co. Dublin City
087 055 5505 ‎

completely forgot about finding the name while driving towards work - but remembered where it is so google mapped the place and googled the address .... details are above.

I'll be doing some of this soon enough, actually. Find the lighting great in these kinda photographs, so I'd say it's quite challenging when just starting out with it.

Not sure why anyone'd do boudoir in a studio? Seems a bit pointless to me (unless they have a whole bedroom setup or something inside?). I'd say good boudoir shots should be enticing or atmospheric or such, so a plain white background seems a little odd of a chouce.


Though I'm curious about the thread... doesn't seem to have a point? OP, you don't seem to be asking anything at all or looking for advice or opinions?

pearljamfan

hey KKv, not really a big point to the thread, Do i have to have a point, cant i just start a little discussion??!! just looking for advice i guess or to see how popular this style is, as id said in the posts above id had 2 enquiries and one was a bit odd, from a man, so it got me thinking about personal safety in that situation, as a female photographer.

After id had a quick google for ideas on posing etc i thought it would be something id like to try , maybe not boudoir, maybe more of the fine art nude kinda thing.


and yes of course i do think you could do boudoir in a studio/hired room, black n white, silouetted against a window, voile hanging in the window, etc . i dont know whats so different from anything else really.
add props like a fluffy rug, soft blanket, anything like that. i dont necessarily mean high key backdrop!

squareballoon

I know quite a few US photographers who do it and a lot of them hire a hotel room. They book a room on one of the upper floors so they get nice light, nice furnishings for shots on the bed and privacy too from being high up.
There's one photographer I know who books 5 in a day which makes it less expensive for the room hire.

EmmyPixel

One thing I personally have to deal with quite a lot is the fact most irish models won't do anything anywhere near nude. All the girls I've ever worked with are eastern european or antipodean. Or in the UK

I have no idea why.

(female photographer who does art nude, glamor, and burlesque)

ThOnda

I don't know, from what I've seen I understood that boudoir/glamor equals bad photography facebook-style.
I prefer purer and maybe a bit abstract attitude to pictures of bodies.
Talking about models, it is also issue. The good ones are professionals and they are worth every single cent for their attitude, experience and great results. And most of the time, they are in excellent physical shape.

ditpaintball

I do some lingerie and swimware for model portfolios, havent done "bouidoir" per say.