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Ultimate Boudoir Photography - part 2 of 1 2 3 4

by Trevor Yerbury Published 01/10/2008

Finally we reach the unveiling ceremony, the client quivering with excitement and anticipation, but still wondering how she had managed to spend quite so much money, arrives at the studio full of expectation as the framed image, usually with that wonderful faux leather heatsealed laminate, is unveiled before her with gestures that would make you think they were unveiling the latest acquisition for the National Gallery to the assembled world's press corps.

And then it finally dawns on the client just what she has done. She peers blindly at the portrait in front of her. Yes that's you madam, the receptionist informs her, that's you behind the layers of make-up, underneath the myriad of feather boas, softened by a regiment of filters and finally diffused under the heavy laminated heat-seal. Definitely you, don't you look wonderful?

Well things have changed and those days are now a distant memory.

Although Faye and I have been photographing nudes for over 25 years and have lectured around the world, we have very rarely offered that service to clients. We're not quite sure why, it just never really occurred to us that a range of clients would want a nude or semi-nude done. Just goes to show you how wrong you can be sometimes. Well I was wrong; Faye was, as always, right! So last autumn we decided that it might be time to offer something new to our clients.

We knew that there was the 'boudoir' style of photography that had made its way over the pond but when we looked at some examples of this style we were a bit disappointed in the images. What we wanted for our clients was sexy, edgy and slightly erotic images that made them feel and look fabulous. So far we have achieved this many times

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