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Boudoir photo sessions can be nerve-wracking – not just for your subject or\u00a0client who undoutably feels vulnerable, but also for you as the photographer. You have to juggle speed in shooting, with meticulous posing and (hopefully) impeccable lighting …. and still keep the flow of the shoot going, and also keep your subject’s confidence up. With this\u00a0boudoir photo session in a NYC studio<\/a>, I photographed my friend, Jessica Joy. <\/span><\/p>\n I wanted to use this window of \u00a0course, and incorporate the\u00a0boxes. It all just begged to have my friend Jessica J sit on the window sill. The mixed lighting – daylight from outside, and incandescent from inside – seemed like it might be a challenge. One way would be to embrace the different color balance between daylight and incandescent light<\/a>, or try to even it all out somehow.<\/p>\n I tried a stripbox with speedlights, but the light was too flat. Not bad, but all the nuanced available light was lost, and I wanted to retain the mood of the venue. I put away the flashes and softbox, and grabbed my\u00a0LED video light<\/a>\u00a0(affiliate<\/em>). This LED video light has adjustable WB, which was a big help here in finding a color balance that best suited the transition from window-light to Incandescent. I did allow the image to go much warmer for the interior and for Jessica, and not let the background go blue.<\/p>\n Here’s the setup, and let’s also look a bit at the pose …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That’s it – the lighting is simplicity itself. A single video light with adjustable WB, on a light-stand.<\/p>\n Using the much more of the window, and more of the room, there’s a somewhat epic feel to this photo:<\/p>\n Working deeper in the studio, away from the window. Using the mirrors and lights around the mirrors, and a longer lens to compress the perspective:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Posing the hands and feet in any portrait is tough! While I aim for a pose to be “organic”, i.e. natural to my subject, I do often micro-adjust until I’m happy. I micro-adjust by looking at my subject and how the overall image will be balanced, and how the arms and legs would be balanced. The position of the head is also important.<\/p>\n That’s a bunch of stuff to balance, but it’s better to get it right at the time of shooting, than hating yourself a day later when viewing the images.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boudoir photography: Dealing with mixed light – daylight & incandescent Boudoir photo sessions can be nerve-wracking – not just for your subject or\u00a0client who undoutably feels vulnerable, but also for you as the photographer. 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Tips on the posing –\u00a0positioning the feet<\/h2>\n
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Photo gear\u00a0(or equivalents) used during this photo session<\/h2>\n
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\nBooks on Boudoir Photography<\/h2>\n
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