Sunday we hosted another of our highly successful Boutique Boudoir Academy workshops here @ Claremont. Our normal number of 4 delegates was regrettably due to family illness reduced to 3 however that only meant more shooting time for everybody. Our model for the day was the beautiful Aicha, one of our brides from 3 years ago and who had a Boudoir Book done for her husband obviously an ideal subject for our delegates. The first part of the day was spent looking at the business part of running a successful Boudoir Business and as always we have test marketed all of the marketing and promotional ideas that we suggest so that way we know what did and did not work for us. Our first promotion produced over 380 leads of which we converted in to over 80 paying sessions! If you want more information then you will have to come on a workshop, sorry. After a couple of hours devoted to the business of boudoir we met up with Faye and Aicha to start the first of several location shoots both in and around our home and into the studio in the afternoon. We always begin, as we would with a client, with simple daylight shots usually in a man’s shirt before we progress to the lingerie part of the session and after a wonderful lunch we moved into the studio where we demonstrated the various light modifiers that we use on Boudoir sessions. The standard soft box, Bowens Beauty Dish and of course our favourite the Bowens Fresnel spotlight. As always Aicha was a star, very patient and understanding with our delegates and I am sure they all left with some stunning images. All our images were shot on Nikon D700 & D300 and post processed with Kubota DASHBOARD.

We have managed to post process a few of our images from yesterday and first we have an image of mine from the very start of the day, husbands white shirt and beautiful soft window light makes for a gentle start to any Boudoir session.

Then we moved into one of our bedroom where Faye captured this very sensual image of Aicha again light by windowlight and a small reflector as a fill.

The it was on to another of our bedrooms where Faye got this very sexy and provocative image of Aicha. This image was lit with only window light.

During the shoot I always remind delegates to never forget the ‘detail images’ from the session and Faye’s example of the legs and shoe shot is a prefect example. What lady does not love her Jimmy Choos?

And finally for today an image of mine after we had moved into the studio after lunch. Scatter cushions on top of a bed spread give a Boudoir feel to the images and light with my favourite Bowens head and softbox.