I had a conversation with a photographer friend the other day about repetition in photography and how sometimes I feel like I’m cheating when I do things over and over the same way. I wasn’t interested in shooting different families on the same white background nor was I interested in shooting boudoir for clients in front of the same window and on the same couch…over and over and over again.

Enter the Ramones.

I don’t pretend to know a whole lot about music and chords but I’m pretty sure the Ramones played the same three chords on every song and they just changed the lyrics. I can’t begin to tell you how much I love the Ramones and I’m just one of about, oh many millions who love them. They did what they wanted. They did it their way and they did it over and over again. Repetition.

Now when we go into a Family Fiction session we setup the same lights every time and go through the same process. The results are always different…but the same.

For a recent boudoir session with Amy, we shot things we’d never done before and we tried really hard to come up with some ideas we had never tried before. We shot in the streets, we shot in a bus stop, we shot with candles and windows and elaborate light setups. In the end, my favourite shot was this one. The easiest one. The one with a lighting setup we had done a million times before. Huh.

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A huge thanks to Chelsea + Chris who were more than happy get all dressed up and take part in some personal work with Steph and I. We assembled a dream team of artists and without the help of them this would have remained nothing more than a few sketches on the wall.

Models: Chris + Chelsea
Photographer: Applehead Studio
Makeup: Vicky Mina
Hair: Cara MacInnis
Dress + accessories: Felicity Bridal

Posting boudoir images to the blog is never a priority but it’s always fun when we get the nod to post one or two. It’s the same thing most of the time…”just cut my head off and you can post anything you want”.
This image is what you get when you surround yourself w excellent people. Our client came in with an image she had found on the net and wondered if we could do something like it. So Steph and I gave it a stab and off the camera is was ok. Then Steph put her NSCC education to work and stepped it up. Very different from anything we’ve done before. I can’t find the link to the original image but I’ll post it when I find it.

Stay tuned for some couples boudoir next week.

I got a text from my mom tonight while I was at the studio. It said, “Did you know that that guy from Say Yes to the Dress is going to be at the bridal show!?”

When Marcia and the girls got home, Marse asked me what time her and Lola could come in on Sunday to see Randy Fenoli.

At ten o’clock tonight Marse and I watched an all new Say Yes to the Dress.

There’s a buzz in my house for the wedding show this weekend but I think I’m the one who’s the most excited. We live like Carnies for a few days every year at this time. Borrowing trucks and movin’ into this little space with hundreds of other people to set up your own little spot for a few hours and then rip er back down and move off to the next show. I do this while Marse hangs out w the girls and does the cooking, cleaning, diaper changing, bathing, bed timing, getting up-ing, entertaining and not one bit of compaining. I love you Marse. I’ll see you Monday.

So as it turns out, husbands are actually the reason that women get together in groups and go out. It’s been happening for years. The bridal shower, the baby shower, the bachelorette party, the sexy girl party and my favorite, ‘let’s just get together and drink wine on the first Monday of every Month’ party.

Knowing this, I was still surprised when inquiries about group boudoir shoots started to come in. Not an actual group shot…but a group of friends who wanted to come in together and make a night out of it. By the end of the evening everyone wanted their own individual boudoir collection. A few phone calls and a studio redesign later and Jeff Cooke and I came up with the idea for The Boudoir Collective.

So if you’re going to see Randy Fenoli at the show this Sunday come by and check out the Boudoir Collective. Say Yes to the unDress.

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