This shoot was in a hotel room in Hollywood, just after the Bondage Ball that is held in Hollywood 4 times a year. The setting is a hotel room, and a hot and sweaty, sultry Gothic fetish model named Lily Kill Blue.

Off with a few articles of clothing and onto the bed. Some torn fishnets, a corset, and a strobe with a bastard amber gel for color correction. No other lights were used except the hotel room lights that were already there.

You use a bastard amber gel to make your strobe flash a warmer orange color to match the existing incandescent lights in the hotel room. If you were to use no gel, the strobe light would look bluish in color and the hotel room light would be orange or warm. So use a gel to match up the color temperatures, and away you go.

A Bastard Amber gel is the name of a certain colored gel known in lighting circles. You can also use a 1/2 CTO or a full CTO( Color Temperature Orange).  All this was done in a matter of minutes and makes a great addition to any boudoir portfolio.

Enjoy…

Lily Kill Blue - Gothic Fetish Boudoir Photography

Lily Kill Blue - Gothic Fetish Boudoir Photography

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Boudoir Noir relies heavily on the style of film noir, and it’s characteristics. Film noir is heavily steeped in shadows and what you don’t show, so will boudoir noir be, steeped in shadows with some things left to the imagination. Dark and stark contrasts, lots of shadows and even an obstructed view of the face.

This type of boudoir imagery is good for selling as posters and prints, because the obscured face leave the mind to it’s imagination. Whereas if you had a clear shot of the face, it defines a person, and sometimes a person the viewer cannot have or doesn’t really want. Facial obstruction is good as I said for the imagination to roam where it shall go. The persons mind is left to put the face of whom ever it wants in the image.

These types are great for sale as prints and posters because the viewer, should they show it in their gallery or home, give each person who views it, a different experience. Each viewer can put who ever they want int he image, and create their own fantasy.

Boudoir noir may incorporate a man’s button down dress shirt, or an over coat, a fedora or a neck tie. It is often considered sexy for a woman to wear a mans clothing in a seductive manner. Pictures also in the background music from your favorite old film noir or a lone solo trumpet piece such as the Main Theme for L.A. Confidential. This type of music is also great for a boudoir portrait session, but really good for Boudoir Noir.

Enjoy…

Boudoir Noir

Boudoir Noir

Boudoir Noir

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The following image is a simple image. One single light, One Satin Sheet, One White Bed Sheet and One Gorgeous Model.

A single strip softbox on a strobe for nice diffuse, wrap lighting to create softened shadows, with the model laying on a single white bed sheet on a cushioned platform. The model is then draped with a red satin sheet in strategic areas, to 1) give the model  sense of ease and some privacy via implied nudity, 2) give the viewer something to imagine instead of putting everything “In Your Face”, 3) to add a touch of color and contrast.

The models makeup is also smeared to give a sense of??? Playful sensuality??? Playful Roughhousing? You decide and be the judge…It’s all in good playful fun and leaves the mind to it’s imagination.

Simple Lighting and Simple Props - Boudoir Photography Poses

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In this image the model is laying towards the back of the couch made of a soft black fabric. Black absorbs light and negates any light that spills onto the couch. What you don’t see is the window above the back of the couch, with this shot being taken mid day when the sun was highest in the sky. The light spills onto the models body and slowly and gently falls off around the edges, but also defines the edges of her nicely curved body.

The only elements on this body are a nice laced panty and a pair of patent leather high heels, another faceless photo as described in a another Boudoir Photography Tip, gives the viewer the ability to place that body on anyone. Another perfect type image for selling, as the model isn’t defined, it could be anyone laying there looking pretty.

Boudoir Photography with Window Light

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