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How to make the most of your boudoir photography session

How to make the most of your boudoir photography session

Normally I post Tuesdays about Boudoir photography tips for photographers, but today I’m going to do something a bit different. I’m going to focus on you, the person in front of the camera! Many people who book a boudoir session have never done it before. Perhaps they...

Ignite Your Fantasies

Ignite Your Fantasies

“Abandon the search for truth; settle for a good fantasy.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  We all have daydreams. They take us to faraway places and drop us into delicious circumstances. They allow us to escape for a little while from the often boring or under stimulating...

Skin deep, and the beauty that lies beyond it

Skin deep, and the beauty that lies beyond it

Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are. - Markus Zusak As a photographer, I have always been a great respecter of all types of beauty. I’ve worked with so many incredible people, individuals with so many different...

How to start feeling sexy, right now

How to start feeling sexy, right now

As women, we spend a lot of time in our heads analyzing everything, especially our bodies. We look in the mirror and wonder when that began to droop or think maybe we should have done crunches instead of eating that éclair. But all of this analyzing and self-criticism...

Boudoir Tips: Soft Light vs. Hard Light in Boudoir Photography

Boudoir Tips: Soft Light vs. Hard Light in Boudoir Photography

Shadows can make or break a photograph, they can be beautiful or they can be unflattering. When it comes to controlling light and shadow in boudoir photography, the last thing you want is to create sharp contrasts with harsh highlights and hard shadows. With intimate...

Boudoir Tips: How to have Fun with Props

Boudoir Tips: How to have Fun with Props

Let’s face it, props can easily ruin a photo, transforming it into something kitschy and horrid in no time at all. Sometimes things just don’t work, and going with what’s simple and elegant is often all you need. But, when done well, props can be super fun, a slight...

Are you Living in a Passionate State of Being?

Are you Living in a Passionate State of Being?

com • fort zonenoun 1. a place or situation where one feels safe or at ease and without stress.   Everyone says that there are two types of people in this world, and then they will go on to explain what those two things are. This is limiting to your humanity,...

Boudoir Business Tips:  The Secret to Sales

Boudoir Business Tips: The Secret to Sales

I’ve had this discussion with so many photographers. They tell me how they wish they could have someone else handle their sales so that they could just take pictures. If only it were so easy. Of course it isn’t. Being a Professional Photographer often has very little...

Inspirational Story: Love the Skin You’re In

Inspirational Story: Love the Skin You’re In

As women, each of us are guilty of being self-deprecating. We wake up in the morning, go to the mirror, inspect our bodies critically, and scowl. We notice all the flaws, all the imperfections, and give no credit to ourselves. Stop it. Before we go any further, I want...

Boudoir Photography Tips: Boudoir is About Telling Stories

Boudoir Photography Tips: Boudoir is About Telling Stories

Sometimes a single photo tells a complete story. But the content of one photo is rarely as telling as a series of cleverly crafted images, images that when put together, form an entire picture.  This is why the best Boudoir Photography encompasses so much more than...

Inspirational Story:  A Girl in Wanderlust

Inspirational Story: A Girl in Wanderlust

“Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.” - J. Maarten...

Inspirational Story:  Smile Like You Mean It

Inspirational Story: Smile Like You Mean It

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” - Thich Nhat Hanh Some days you just don’t want to smile. Some days the world seems to be a thundercloud following you around, waiting for the right moment to...

Inspirational Story: The Power of Positive Thinking

Inspirational Story: The Power of Positive Thinking

Never underestimate the power of positive thinking. Your behavior shapes your reality, but it’s your thoughts which shape your behavior. There is a strong link between body and mind, and learning to control your thoughts will give you more power over your body....

Boudoir Photography Tips: Top Ten Mistakes New Photographers Make

Boudoir Photography Tips: Top Ten Mistakes New Photographers Make

Boudoir Photography Tips: Top Ten Mistakes New Photographers Make    Mistakes aren’t all bad. They are often good learning experiences, times when you as a new photographer figure out what works best for you, and what really doesn’t. In this regard, mistakes...

Inspirational story: The importance of Breathing

Inspirational story: The importance of Breathing

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar ___________________________________________ Breath is healing, but is so often taken for granted. Breathing in deeply calms the heart, relaxes tense...

Inspirational Story: Feed Your Wild Spirit

Inspirational Story: Feed Your Wild Spirit

“One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, ‘My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. ‘One is Evil – It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment,...

Boudoir Photography Tips: How to Over-Deliver

Boudoir Photography Tips: How to Over-Deliver

How to Over-Deliver We all love when we buy something and then get something free, when we an get an instant upgrade we didn't ask for or even apply for, or receive a thank you card in the mail that we didn’t expect. It’s called surprise and delight, and like with...

Inspirational Story: Stay Centered

Inspirational Story: Stay Centered

“It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.” - K.T. Jong ______________________________________ Did you know that...

Bring your fantasies to life with couples boudoir session

Bring your fantasies to life with couples boudoir session

You smiled at him from across the room, he raised an eyebrow and looked around him. “Who? Me?” His face seemed to say, and you answered him with a nod. Uncertain at first, he made his way through the crowd, over to you. You begin talking, uncertainly at first, and...

Boudoir Business Tips:  Push your boundaries

Boudoir Business Tips: Push your boundaries

If you’re a photographer, you’re already in an oversaturated trade. Lucky for you, many people don’t challenge themselves. Many people are satisfied with status quo. Many people refuse to adapt.  In the mid 1990s a revolution began to occur. The digital age opened up...

Stepping out of Your Comfort Zone

Stepping out of Your Comfort Zone

The Story of Grace  Growing up, Grace was admonished to dress modestly. To her parents, especially her mother, this meant not going sleeveless. Ever.  To Grace, it seemed that even though her friends’ parents might not have such strict standards, that those same rules...

Beauty and the Beast: How one photoshoot can change life

Beauty and the Beast: How one photoshoot can change life

Do not tame the wolf inside you just because you've met someone who doesn't have the courage to handle it. We've all done it, given our power away. We've all had that someone... It was too bright for them, blinding really, so they did what they could to survive. Your...

How a Photoshoot changed my life

How a Photoshoot changed my life

  How a Photoshoot changed my life As a child, I was super reserved. I was very shy and even at home alone or even with just my mom I did not like to be naked. I was tall, slender, and my mother was always telling me beautiful I was but when I looked in the...

Frills and Thrills—All Dolled Up

Frills and Thrills—All Dolled Up “I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes every day, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.” ― Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic ------------ There’s no denying what a new outfit can do to boost your...

Boudoir Photography Tips :The Ultimate Bridal Boudoir Guide

Boudoir Photography Tips :The Ultimate Bridal Boudoir Guide

Wedding Season is here and I know all you beautiful brides are looking for the hottest new gift for your husband to be, what other could it be than Boudoir photography? One of the main reasons why my clients book Boudoir sessions is because the images make great...

Be the Muse of Your Intimate Boudoir Shoot

Be the Muse of Your Intimate Boudoir Shoot

A muse! Who is she? An archetypal goddess beautiful and terrible…raining her inspiration on mere mortals and taking it away at the slightest misdemeanor? Or the gentle voice inside you that urges you to act when you behold vistas that affect your mind and soul? No...

Monday Muse -Ellen Von Unworth

Monday Muse -Ellen Von Unworth

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Boudoir Business Tips:  How to Get a Great Body of Work

Boudoir Business Tips: How to Get a Great Body of Work

Boudoir Photography Tips: Creating a Body of Work That's Uniquely You Your first 10,000 photos are your worst. - Henri Cartier Bresson  In the art of photography, you will be judged, you will be admired, and you will be remembered by the work that you create. How much...

Developing a Positive Self-Image that sticks

Developing a Positive Self-Image that sticks

Do you have any idea how absolutely incredible you are? How unique and beautiful and capable you are?  For most of us, taking compliments like these is difficult. We think, “Me? How am I special? What makes me unique? And I may be pretty, but beautiful, no I don’t...

Boudoir Business Tips:  Creating a Space for Grace

Boudoir Business Tips: Creating a Space for Grace

Boudoir Photography Tips : Creating a Space for Grace It’s a rare and beautiful thing when a woman is completely comfortable in her own skin, but for many of us, having this sense of confidence is something we have to work to develop. As a boudoir photographer, you’ll...

Boudoir Photography Tips : Making the Most of Your Environment

Boudoir Photography Tips : Making the Most of Your Environment

Boudoir Photography Tips: Making the Most of Your Environment Sometimes you just have to work without a studio. You don’t have absolute control of an environment and you’ll have to make snap judgments. Many Boudoir photographers don’t have their clients come to them...

Monday Muse – My Sister Taryn

Monday Muse – My Sister Taryn

A LOVE STORY I am a FIRM believer in true love!! The love that makes your heart explode, your dreams expand, and brings your soul peace. The love that pulls you towards your greatness, is committed to growth, is patient, loving and kind, you know right?!  We all...

Why a Boudoir Photographer Needs a Makeup Artist

Why a Boudoir Photographer Needs a Makeup Artist

Boudoir Photography Tips: Why a Boudoir Photographer Needs a Makeup Artist Photography is a form of art. To photograph people is the art of bringing out certain unspoken qualities of the subject, such as the relationship with themselves or the others in the photo....

Monday Muse | Ilse Bing

Monday Muse | Ilse Bing

Monday Muse | Ilse Bing I didn’t choose photography, it chose me. I didn’t know it at the time. - Ilse Bing ___________________ One would think that for a female Jew living in Germany in the first half of the Twentieth Century, life would not show much kindness....

What it Means to Be a Modern Diva

What it Means to Be a Modern Diva

  What it Means to Be a Modern Diva I am perpetually amazed by the number of strong women that are in this world, and so many of them have no idea! They balance jobs, relationships, and responsibilities, and still find time to give back and create, and then still...

Monday Muse | Sarah Moon

Monday Muse | Sarah Moon

Monday Muse | Sarah Moon “I photograph privilege, illusion, evanescence, likeness, and beauty. Then I seek for an emotion, and it seems an even more hopeless quest.” - Sarah Moon ____________________________________________________________ Meditations on passion,...

The Relationship Between Sex and Happiness

The Relationship Between Sex and Happiness

While some might claim to have known a lady's sex life can affect her quality of life, the link is not always taken seriously. - Susan Davis, Women’s Health Research Director, Monash University _____________________________________________ Ladies, it’s time to talk...

What Are Editorial Intimates?

What Are Editorial Intimates?

What Are Editorial Intimates? They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and indeed they speak volumes. Photographs are visual stories that, when created artistically and with purpose, can last for generations. In Boudoir Photography, a single image can reveal so...

Monday Muse | Ellie Goulding

Monday Muse | Ellie Goulding

For anyone who believes that age is an impediment to genuine success, the kind of success that is enduring and has the ability to impact a generation, I present to you one of my favorites the extraordinary Ellie Goulding. An English chanteuse from Herefordshire, U.K.,...

Replacing fear with curiosity

Replacing fear with curiosity

The Story of Grace Growing up, Grace was admonished to dress modestly. To her parents, especially her mother, this meant not going sleeveless. Ever. To Grace, it seemed that even though her friends’ parents might not have such strict standards, that those same rules...

Monday Muse: Tina Fey

Monday Muse: Tina Fey

  “I want to keep creating comedy that is, as my old improv teacher would say, at the top of our intelligence or higher. It’s easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.” –Tina Fey ------ You might be wondering what a...

How Five Minutes of Yoga Puts You in a Positive Mood

How Five Minutes of Yoga Puts You in a Positive Mood

  “Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.” - Amit Ray Believe it or not, doing something for just five minutes a day over the course of two weeks will create a habit....

Boudoir Business Tips: The Importance of Branding

Boudoir Business Tips: The Importance of Branding

  Boudoir photographers have their own special niche in the photography market, so much so that boudoir photography has effectively become a class of its own.  This is because although there is a certain level of trust that is necessary for most types of...

Monday Muse – Kiki Smith

Monday Muse – Kiki Smith

  I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world. - Kiki Smith German-born daughter of American sculptor Tony Smith, Kiki is a dynamo of art and political activism, a woman on fire. Often...

This could be you…

Just absolutely awesome! Marisa is truly talented and such is a great person. She made my first experience doing a boudoir photoshoot super comfortable and fun. Before even meeting Marisa she was so helpful with contacting me via email with tips for the shoot, recommendations for lingerie, etc. We even spoke over the phone to get to know one another. All I can say is Marisa is wonderful and I hope to work with her again. I truly enjoyed my time spent with her. -Annie