{"id":2783,"date":"2010-03-27T21:29:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T01:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2017-11-06T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:26:41","slug":"boudoir-photography-intimate-photo-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/boudoir-photography-intimate-photo-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Boudoir photography – an intimate photo session"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Style in boudoir photography – intimate photo sessions<\/h1>\n

I did a recent photo shoot with a model, Carly Erin, to expand my boudoir portfolio. Sometimes you get to work in large spacious rooms or studios.\u00a0 Sometimes you work in smaller more intimate locations. When you work in a tighter, more intimate setting, the choice to include the surroundings or not will greatly affect how you shoot.<\/p>\n

I made the decision that I didn’t want the location to be identifiable and this affected how I shot, so I used a 70-200mm f\/2.8 lens for most of the photo session to compress the perspective, and shoot very tight.<\/p>\n

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Shooting close and tight, the end result isn’t entirely boudoir, but a little more portrait-y … yet still sexy and intimate. I wanted to retain a mood of gentle sensuality to the sequence of images.<\/p>\n

For my lighting, I ended up using either video light<\/strong><\/a> or bounce flash<\/strong><\/a> for my light. The photos with the birdcage veil are all done with a single video light on her, and a dimmer video light on the background. \u00a0The tungsten and fluorescent lights in the ceiling and elsewhere in the room did register to an extent.<\/p>\n

To control what I included in the frame, I used a few simple techniques.<\/p>\n

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  1. Shallow depth of field as in the image above, where I purposely composed the image so that the out-of-focus Christmas lights helped frame her.<\/li>\n
  2. In other images here,\u00a0I shot tight from above so that the red silk sheets dominated.<\/li>\n
  3. Other times\u00a0I shot from a low viewpoint to eliminate what I didn’t want to include.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    We went a little retro with the bird-cage veil at the start of the photo session, but soon lost that for some sensual portraits.<\/p>\n

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    Camera settings & photo\u00a0gear\u00a0(or equivalents) used<\/h2>\n