Boudoir Photo Techniques
- Not all boudoir photography is nude photography. More often, it features fun settings that are indicative of a person's interests. Pinup photography is a style of boudoir photography that often incorporates vintage clothing combined with airplanes, vintage cars, motorcycles or other elements that harken back to the 1940s and the 1950s.
- Nude boudoir photography is an intensely personal form of boudoir that may be used to artistically showcase a person's figure, usually in low light or in black and white. These can be particularly powerful, sensual photographs in either suggestive or innocent poses, whichever form suits your personality. You'll just as often find boudoir photographs of these type in which the subject daringly gazes into the camera as you find him apparently unaware that he is being photographed.
- Lingerie boudoir is similar to nude, except that there is no overt nudity. This form of photography is common in wedding boudoir when a bride wants to have pictures taken of herself prior to the wedding in her bridal lingerie, as a memento for her partner of the wedding day and the wedding night. This style can use partial lingerie, and can use color, black and white or even sepia tones if you wish to give a distinctively vintage look to the scene.
- Gothic boudoir photography transcends the sensual and supplants it with the overtly sexual. Subjects are often photographed in extremely suggestive poses utilizing fantasy lingerie and backdrops. As with other styles, this type of photography is not necessarily nude photography. The most important characteristic to exemplify in this technique is empowerment.