I made this little video for our DWF presentation, so that we could share a glimpse of Marissa’s beautiful baby… she & Weston and the rest of the staff at WC have worked incredibly hard on this place, and it is just such a gorgeous studio. At our Vegas workshop we’ll be giving a ‘virtual tour’ of the studio, with some longer video footage, so that our attendees will be able to see all the details and the whole layout of this 4500 sq-foot studio. For the rest of you, here’s that video, if you’re interested in taking a look! Thanks!
The Studio Tour from Boudoir Divas on Vimeo.
***Note about the video & studio… we are not showing this to say that everyone needs a 4500 sq-ft studio to shoot boudoir. You can be JUST as successful doing it other ways. For example, shooting boudoir marathons at hotels. In our book, we explain how we used a garage studio with very simple sets & easy lighting set-ups… and we made it work for our business. There are different ways of doing it; find what works for you!
Just a few more photos from our time in AZ for the 09 DWF Conference… Thanks again to Jeff Caplan & DWF for inviting us to speak this year!
One thing you must know about the two of us. We love to dance. This is a serious love. Like big-time, all-for-fun, not-caring-what-we look-like, don’t-leave-the-dance floor til they shut-it-down- kind of LOVE. Thankfully we have some friends who also love it as much as we do. We had so much fun hanging out with these guys… Shaun Austin, Kevin Swan, Nathan Holritz, & our wonderful friend Candice. Can’t wait for WPPI next month. If anyone is up for dancing, just let us know – we’ll be there. 🙂
We LOVED our mentor sessions! It was so wonderful meeting each of you ladies, and we hope that our paths will cross again very soon. Thanks again, Jen, for arranging the mentor sessions this year!
Thanks to Larz for taking some shots of us during our “Boudoir Is Back” presentation. Check out some more of his photos here!
AND – we also have to give a big shout-out to our amazing volunteer model, miss Kate Wall. She was such a trooper, letting us put her in all of these crazy poses for the demonstration. Kate is also a fabulous photographer… check out her site! Thank you so much for your help, Kate! We can’t wait to hang out with you more in Vegas!
If you’re interested, here’s a [very] short, 20-second clip of our DWF presentation… Rather than just leaving you feeling inspired, our goal at every workshop & speaking program is to have you leave with solid ideas for your business. In our past presentations, we received a lot of feedback from people stating that the posing section of our talk was the most valuable. So for DWF 09, we decided to really focus on the posing aspect of boudoir. Thanks again to everyone who came to hang out! 🙂
Divas Speaking from Boudoir Divas on Vimeo.
There are going to be some changes around here in the next week, as we get ready to launch our site! We’ll be moving our blog, so it may be unaccessible for you guys in the next few days. Please bookmark the following website, and then check back SOON because it will be switched over to this new domain! [http://www.thedivasblog.com]
We are also in the process of setting up a brand-new storefront – called the “Boudoir Shop”™ – where you will be able to make purchases, register for workshops, etc… it’s going to be very user-friendly! We’ll announce when it’s open! 🙂
And, of course, our new website. Coming very very soon! 🙂
The title of our workshops… and the title of our speaking presentations…
We are just oh-so-excited to see that in a very short time, boudoir has finally started to make a very cool comeback! Over the past year, more and more photographers have started offering boudoir. More and more vendors are starting to create products & marketing programs that focus around boudoir. And boudoir is starting to get a fresh look. It’s just so exciting! 🙂
Also, while we’re talking about workshops & such… it looks like we may throw together a mini-workshop in the Dallas area, probably in March. I’m trying to gauge the interest to see what location we’ll want to hold the workshop at, so if you’d be interested in joining us for a 1-day workshop (full day, about 8 hours)… let me know! Email: [email protected]
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Hey Michael – congrats! Thanks for joining us at DWF for our “Boudoir is Back” ™ program… and thanks for signing up for our newsletter! I’ve just sent you an email with instructions for claiming your prize! If you have any questions, feel free to email us: [email protected]
Hey everyone! Kimberlee here today… just wanted to talk about something that I’m very passionate about. I know it’s something that has stirred up quite a bit of controversy and conversations, but it’s something that I am 100% behind. It’s incorporating video and stills into visual artwork for our clients. The Bebbs have coined the term “Fusion” – I highly recommend going over to the Fusion site to check out their DVD that they’re releasing; it will be covering how to accomplish Fusion. It’s something that I’ve been interested for a long time now, and with my portrait business, I’ve decided that every portrait session for 2009 will be a combination photo/video shoot. [Check out my ‘test run’ with a shoot from a few weeks ago… not high quality video, but I wanted to see if it was something that I could do for every shoot]. Anyway… this is also something that Marissa & I have talked about for a LONG time in regards to boudoir. We’ve been doing our little video-photo combos for our boudoir ‘just for fun’ shoots with models for a long time now, and we’re so excited to start offering this new specialty service to all of our regular boudoir clients, too! I’ll be posting a little ‘teaser’ in the next week or so, with some footage and stills we shot a few weeks ago. Exciting stuff! We aren’t saying that this is for everyone, or that all boudoir photographers need to start incorporating video. I’m just one of those weird people that loves trying my hand in all kinds of things, so I’m excited about learning Final Cut Pro. (I’m super dorky like that). 🙂 So if this idea excites you, I encourage you to try it out!
We are pretty stoked about their new packaging and eager to share. This video is a crack up. Enjoy.
And since we are talking about our awesome sponsors KISS:
Also don’t forget to EMAIL US if you want to attend the KISS demo shoot. It was a blast last year and we are counting down the days until the next demo. I am already full of ideas. I want to show you all how to make your client look like a total rock star just using the simplest of set ups. $100 video light and a tiny piece of fabric and voila, she might as well be Lady Gaga cuz she’ll look that darn cool. Doesn’t this chicky below look a freakin’ like super model. I am not embarrassed to say we use equipment under $200 bucks. We’ll even show you!
Just a teaser, more from this shoot above will be released in a fabulous article by a fabulous company!
We cannot wait to share!
PS. Why does this blog make me sound like I have had 5 Coca Colas. I need to slow down today. I sound wacky. Well I did Twitter that I was highly motivated this week! Oh and this is Marissa. I am sure K will appreciate that I am signing my name. For reasons that don’t even need to be mentioned at this point. I can’t believe I am still typing. Ok for reals I am leaving. Shutting down my comp now…..Bye.
I really liked this wedding. NO. WAIT. I loooved shooting this wedding. It was like eye candy. So many surprises and twists and turns. Like when I thought the Dad was getting up to do a toast and no, actually, to my surprise and supreme joy, he performed his favorite Karaoke song. The bride was gorgeous and I just wanted to photograph in her beautiful dresses all day long. This one below is my fav dress of the day. I invite you to check out the rest at our blog if want a reason to take a break from all the things you should be doing right now. 🙂 -Marissa 
These last few months we have been doing our best to pick 4 images and create a set of wallets for the client as a surprise gift from us. We have always written thank you cards, but now we wanted to take it a step further. We would love to hear how maybe all of you try to spoil your clients….. please share below in the comments if you feel up to it!!!
Good news! Boudoir bookings are through the roof. We just bought a pack of manila folders, which we use for client info obviously, and it is already time to buy another pack. Staples here we come. Just had to share how in-demand boudoir seems to be. It may have helped though that we just aired a commercial on Star 94.1 for the week. Now on my way to go help the gals set up the booth at Bridal Bazaar. – M
PS. I am still wanting to find time to post those photos of Kimee on the mechanical bull. Never thought I would see that. Coming soon.
PS #2. Can you all see the writing on our blog? I just tried viewing the blog on internet explorer and the text looks like crap? Well I guess if you can’t read this how can you respond. Yikes. Dilemma.
