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The Little Black Dress
LBD: A little black dress is a black evening or cocktail dress, cut simply and often quite short. Fashion historians ascribe the origins of the little black dress to the 1920's designs of Coco Chanel and Jean Patou intended to be long-lasting, versatile, affordable,...
A Before Shoot Check List
Communication is the most important aspect of any kind of portraiture but with intimate portraiture it's even more important. It starts with your initial contact with the photographer and then moves into direct communication with the client during the photo session....
Exploring The Art of the Pose
Next to the question of nudity and the answer is always “that’s your decision.”—the next most asked question is about posing. For many people their only experience with posing for portraits goes back to their high school or wedding photographs that were, to be...
Being Naked Before Strangers
Sophia Loren, who is in her eighties and still looks fabulous, once said that, “Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” The subject of today’s portrait is an aspiring model who's often asked by her female friends,...
Have Fun with Your Boudoir Photography Session
I've occasionally written about mixing fun and sexiness with your intimate portrait session. And as you can see in today's featured portrait our client is having fun. One of the key ingredients for both that and this session was sexiness and this week, we'd like to...
Nude Tattooed You
Lightspeed Research asked more than 1000 people across the United States about their perceptions of body art and it turned out that 59 percent of the women surveyed have tattoos compared to 41 percent of men. Interestingly, women get their ink in different shapes and...