As a member of several Facebook groups about photography for beginners I often see a lot of questions that really make me shake my head.
I see a lot of people taking photos in natural light and doing it really poorly. To the other extreme I see people who spend lots of money on lighting only to take really poor quality photos.
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I was recently in a group for “Boudoir” photographers when someone posted an image that was not a boudoir photo but was in fact a glamour photo. I mentioned that it was a great image but that it really didn’t qualify as a boudoir image as the model was just a girl standing outside against a wall wearing jeans and a bra.
Everything about the image was well shot; the lighting, composition, exposure. But it wasn’t a boudoir image.Shortly after posting my comment the owner of the group who is apparently a very well known boudoir photographer responded to me that I needed to read the rules of the group.
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“Print is dead.” “No one wants to buy prints.” These are some of the excuses I see people posting about why they don’t offer prints for their clients. I will get into the foolishness of these statements shortly.
Printing your images shows you in no uncertain terms what you could improve on in terms of your lighting and how you compose your images.
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Glamour photography is one of the more commonly seen forms of the photographic arts in magazines like Playboy, Maxim, websites, and social media. Glamour is the umbrella under which Boudoir photography is covered.
Typically the subject of glamour photography are females and can include very provocative and almost erotic posing; and apparel ranging from fully dressed to nude.
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Opening a photography studio may be somewhere in the distant future for many photographers. But it doesn’t mean it’s not on their minds.
I’ve been planning the opening of a small in house photography studio. Mind you; this isn’t for doing any major commercial projects. But more for testing and portraits.
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A while ago, there was a funny list of why you shouldn’t date a photographer. This time I’d like to focus on the positives, because, and please excuse my lack of modesty, we photographers are awesome people.
We are artistic creatures, yet unlike artists from other fields, we have to constantly think about how we are going to put food on the table in the future, so that makes us very aware of the world we live in and how to adapt to it.
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