Exciting news, boudoir fans!! The Boudoir Café was featured on the popular current news website, The Daily Beast! : Journalist Samantha Allen was kind enough to contact me and The Boudoir Café team as prime contributors to her article, “How Boudoir Photos Are Redefining Sexy.” The article itself is lovely, and has a lot of good words to say about boudoir by those who have participated and been changed by it; and by boudoir photographers (including Hedley and myself!) …
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In these days of really fast changes and memories going by so fast, and with the explosion of short videos for social media, I am really thrilled to be a still photographer; don’t get me wrong, I find myself shooting more and more videos for clients who are asking for it but it also forces me to make more compelling images that tell a story — emotional portraits. This is what we try to portray with our Boudoir Café images. Cherie and …
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WHAT YOU NEED FOR A SUCCESSFUL BOUDOIR SHOOT There are always things that look amazing on film and so I thought I would write this blog to explain how it works. Certain props and attitudes have to come with you on the day of. My first recommendation whoever you shoot with is to get professional make-up. Make-up artists are just that Artists. They spend their life thinking about how to make you beautiful and the best products and contouring, which …
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BOOKING A BOUDOIR SESSION WITH US! IT IS TOTALLY OK TO BE NERVOUS. Most girls are because after all most of us are not in front of the camera for a living! Also, you are going outside of your comfort zone! I promise you that once you get to our studio and talk to us for a few minutes, the nervousness will totally disappear and it will blend into an, “OMG I am having …
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We have been shooting a lot and posting so little 🙁 Sorry, w e’ve been uber busy making artwork of our amazing clientele and sending it all over the world! Such an exciting thing to do includes creating iconic images for our girls and then making art of them to be printed and placed on many a fabulous wall around the globe. We have been shooting so many new clients and interesting things are from couples boudoir to many …
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It suddenly occurred to me as we were shooting our most recent clients this week, that Cherie and I have a very unique shooting style. We shoot side-by-side with different cameras and different lenses and we get two different perspectives at the same time using a combination. Flash and Continuous Light We are constantly pushing to get the next great shot. All the while making the clients get over their fears of being the subject and being photographed we create a …
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We have so many hot moms these days so a little Queen time and no kid-zone is important for mental health! Why do hot moms need to do a boudoir shoot, because it helps them remember that they are HOT! The day is an experience for getting your makeup done and feeling very sexy in your hot lingerie and high heels which is not the normal get up on your daily activities. So be bold and get the hubby to …
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We have become well aware that men want their wives and girlfriends to do a boudoir shoot, whether the girls know this or not! The men love-LOVE-love to have these little goodies on their phone to look at while the day drags on or when they are traveling. Imagine, photos of you on-hand is a must! So men, we know you want it so let’s get on it!! We will make the best package possible to make your girls feel …
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Hello this is Hedley Jones, Cherie Steinberg’s partner and husband at the Boudoir Café. Our style is that we shoot side-by-side and are a part of the show! It’s 2017 and we have been shooting at The Boudoir Café exclusively for about 4 years at our studio in #beverlyhills, but we are also very much open to destination shoots. Our local area of travel from Los Angeles includes Las Vegas and San Fransisco, but we are open to any romantic …
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YES IT IS TRUE. TO DO A BOUDOIR SHOOT AND GET ICONIC, ARTFUL IMAGES OF YOURSELF IS A MUST. A TOTAL, BUCKET LIST MUST! WITH WELL OVER 50 YELP TESTIMONIALS OF WHY THIS IS AN IMPORTANT THING FOR ALL WOMEN TO DO, THE QUESTION IS WHY HAVEN’T YOU? I KNOW, IT’S BECAUSE YOU FEEL YOUR BODY IS NOT UP TO SNUFF, YOU’RE FEELING FATTER THAN NORMAL, YOUR CONFIDENCE IS NOT THAT GREAT, YOU’RE NERVOUS AND SCARED TO GO TO A PHOTOGRAPHER …
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