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Digital Boudoir Photography: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Fabulous Images of Any Woman
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by John G. Blair
Sales Rank: 267291
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List Price: $34.99
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Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition May 30, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1598632205
ISBN-13: 978-1598632200
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Product Description
Boudoir photography does not require its subject to be a beautiful, physically flawless woman. It does not require the use of extravagantly expensive equipments, props, and studio space. In fact, the very essence of boudoir photography is the idea that its subject is not a professional model and is not even necessarily in the boudoir. No longer confined to the idea of heavy makeup, lingerie, and the bedroom, the new age of boudoir photography is casual, sensual, and sexy. That is the premise behind Digital Boudoir Photography. Firmly grasping the freedom that digital photography affords, this book offers tips and techniques that allow anyone with a digital camera the ability to take attractive photographs of any woman.
About The Author
John began writing and photographing in elementary school, publishing and selling his own newspaper at age 10. He has been a professional photographer for over 35 years, with a specialty in photographing women. He is experienced in boudoir, portrait, wedding, commercial, editorial, and fine art photography. He has been working in various aspects of digital photography since 1991, starting in Photoshop 2.5! His boudoir photography and scenes of him at work were featured on the French television program, "This Crazy World."
He has taught courses, presented seminars, and lectured on photographic and business topics to groups of all ages from middle school children up through professionals. He has presented a number of boudoir and makeup courses to professional photographers as well. John's award winning work has led to his being named Photographer of the Year twice in five Northern California counties. He has received a number of awards and honors from the Professional Photographers of California. His studio is located in the redwood forests of Northern California.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I have no experience taking sensual pictures of women. Indeed, it was the lack of experience that led me to this book. And I come away from it with mixed feelings. One of the most important sections of this book lays out the steps necessary to take what the author calls "boudoir" photographs, which he defines as "beautiful, sensual and sexy images of regular women". These steps include everything from selecting equipment, to posing, to retouching images. The longest section, called "lessons", then goes over certain subjects like posing, lighting and props with further details and plenty of photographs. There are some short sections such as advanced topics and resources that provide some checklists, but not much depth. The book is full of ideas that I would never have thought up myself, like how to make a tube dress from 2/3 of a yard of stretch Lycra that will cling tightly to your model, or the advantages of purchasing an old-fashioned tub and putting it in the woods to use as a prop. Every one of the ideas is profusely illustrated. And there's part of the rub. While some pictures offer an attractive woman in a sensual pose, just as many seem to show how to make the same attractive woman less attractive. Moreover, they often become quite repetitious. How many pictures of Tanya in a fireman's rescue suit do you need to make a point? Now I have to display my prejudices. I feel that it's possible to make a boudoir photograph that's tasteful. Yet many of the author's pictures seemed tawdry to me. I often found the pictures of women who exposed less of their bodies more attractive than those who exposed more. I also noticed that there was little discussion of the technical aspects of photography, other than the pros and cons of different focal length lenses. The digital aspects of the photography appeared to have been tacked on so that the book could say it was about digital photography but the tack-on will be of little use to serious digital photographers. There is a portion of the book that purports to tell you how to see a woman, but other than to tell you that different women have attractive and unattractive body parts, there was little further discussion. I would have liked to learn, for example, how the author would photograph a woman whose thighs were too large to meet the current standards of female attractiveness. I can't ignore the question of whether this book objectifies women, but suspect that if you pick up this book, you've gotten past that issue. I believe that there's nothing wrong with trying to capture the sensual elements of another human being, male or female, in a photograph. I also believe it has very little to do with capturing cleavage. I have no doubt that I may use some of the many tips in this book. It's too bad the book couldn't have done a better job of telling us how to view subjects and capture more of what makes them attractive on film.
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Digital Boudoir Photography: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Fabulous Images of Any Woman
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