BOUDOIR PHOTOGRAPHY

'The Complete Guide to Shooting Intimate Portraits', luxurious and sexy, boudoir photo sessions are now increasingly popular when more women are having intimate fashion portraits taken for their boyfriends or husbands or even just for themselves. Once popular mainly with brides, now women of all ages celebrate everything from anniversaries to birthdays to their own independent spirit. This is not old-fashioned glamour photography but a new genre, with a focus on flattering the subject and creating tasteful, liberating and empowering photographs, not always in lingerie but sometimes in everyday clothing incorporated into the photography session and location a home, outdoors and in a style to fit the woman's personality and or fulfil her fantasies. Look for inspiration in this superb gallery of slim, beautiful women with professional tips on lighting and posing and even sample albums in different sizes to show your clients what they may choose from if you take the hobby further. Covers lenses and tools of the trade, accessories, locations, hair and make-up, but best of all beautiful women and props like a bustier to add lift and hide problem areas, leather jackets to feel sexy, before and after shots to show the transformation, props likes masks and fans and strings of pearls, the quality of lighting, use of shadows, posing with furniture (think Christine Keeler), slimming angles, lying down, different body shapes, and of course beautiful lingerie, stocking tops. Plus all the adjustments which can be made on your computer to smooth the skin, brighten eyes, tone images and textures and more, and tips on making your subject comfortable and producing portraits they will love. 160pp in large softback, 24.13 x 25.4cm. Hundreds of glam colour photos.