Today’s Post by Blue Moon Staff
“I look like the people that walk down the street. I don’t have perfect boobs, I don’t have zero cellulite – of course I don’t – and I’m curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that’s great…—Kate Winslet
Welcome to the New Blue Moon,
Starting today, the focus of this site will be on photographers and models with an emphasis on showing photographers the kind of lighting and photographic techniques that can be used to create glamour and boudoir images. It will also offer models suggestions on ways that they can make extra money with on-line modeling.
No Censorship
This site’s blog posts will feature glamour and boudoir photographs that include a look at the specific hardware—with links to the equipment if you wish to purchase it—as well as the lighting techniques used to create that kind of image. In future posts we will look at ways to include lighting diagrams showing, not just describing, how the photograph’s lighting was physically set up. Similar full details will be given as to the camera and lens used, including the focal length (especially when using zoom lenses) it was shot at. That also includes the exposure used—shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings. But most importantly, there will be no censorship of any of the images.
How I made this portrait: Boudoir photography can be shot on-location or in the studio, if only for privacy reasons. See-through fabrics were fashionable in Europe during the eighteenth century. These days the use of see-through fabrics in designer clothing resulted in a “sheer fashion trend” that’s been prominent in fashion circles since 2008.
This intimate portrait of Scarlet Ana (follow her in Instagram @scarlettkitty1) wearing a see-through lacy, white robe was made in my 11×15-foot home-based studio. The lighting setup for this portrait consisted of two Paul C Buff DigiBee DB800’s and one Alien Bee B800 monolight. The main DigiBee DB800 monolight was placed at camera right and had a 37x27x12inch Plume Ltd. Wafer soft box attached. An Alien Bee B800 monolight with a 16 x 30-inch Westcott Apollo Strip soft box was located at camera left. Another DigiBee DB800 with a Paul C Buff 18-OMNI Reflector attached, softened by a triple-layer Diffusion Sock, was located at camera left and placed neat the back corner of the studio.
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