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she also offers hair and makeup for an extra $70 but i'm just going to stick with my eyeliner and mascara... i know my partner loves that i dont wear much make up... and i dont need my hair done either
I'm paying $450, which includes hair and makeup. It also includes a "bedside boudoir" book.
Wow that's a lot better than mine. I got a book (it's hard bound with 30 pictures I think) and no digital images for $500.
I'm doing $500 for a 10 page 8x8 book and 20 edited images. 2 outfits.
I'm nervous too! Need to be a perfect eater for the next 3 weeks!
ok... so i guess it's a good price them... i don't get a book but that won't be hard for me to find... and not expensive either :)
I was thinking last night as i was falling asleep for the book... maybe 1 or 2 pictures per page with a printed quote or something like that on each page... have NO idea what quotes but it just came to me.... what do you think?
As a photographer that does boudoir/fashion/portraits etc, I would urge you to rethink your makeup artist decision.
A good make up artist can *totally* transform you and your photographs. Obviously this doesn't mean they have to cover you in slap, but they will go a really long way to ensuring you get the most out of your shoot.
I like to think I'm a pretty good photographer and I'm quite adept at Photoshopping, but when I look back through my portfolio, the shots that stand out nearly all had an mua.
I'm puzzled by the print offer you described too: '5x7 of all prints' seems very odd - I don't know any photographer that lets all prints go out! That would involve a lot of duplication and a lot where poses/expressions don't work. It is quite odd for 'togs to give out full size digital copies too, but if she does you would be able to put together a book at one of the online digital printers - but would 5 images be enough?
Good luck and enjoy your session!
David
I've had a profess photo session with my partner a year or so ago and it was full make up and hair done... i loved it at the time... but i look at them now and kindda don't like it... i never wear make up... all i ever wear is eyeliner and mascara. I think the photo's we had done it makes me look like not me and older (and we got every single photo that was taken on a CD as well as our favorite printed on a huge canvas)
ok... i'll add the photo we got done and then i'll add a photo of normal me... ignore the fact the i'm a little fatter in the professional photo lol
to me i look older with all that make up on and honestly i dont think i even look like me... don't get me wrong i love it but it's not "me"
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she (the photographer) has noted that she does heavy photoshopping (ie. like the pictures in the mags)... i don't see the need for the make up?
also my partner loves the fact that i dont wear make up... maybe it's because i dont take long to get ready LMAO but he loves it how i wake up in the morning and i'm the same as i was the night before LOL if that makes sense LOL HAHAHA
mine was $850 for 2 hours (we fit 5 outfits in i think)... I got an 8x8 book.. with i THINK 10 pages (20). I picked about 34 images for the book- its not in yet. obviously there were upgrades and stuff on the book but i stuck to the basic ($850 was already crazy enough for me!) I could order prints off that til the end of the month. i paid extra for makeup but it was the same artist im using for my wedding so i used it as a trial, and i got my hair cut the night before and blown out. For me, the makeup made all the diff and im not a big makeup person either but it just make my eyes look outstanding.. oh, shes also letting me choose a few that she will give me digitals of but they will only be facebook quality with her watermark...
i had a BLAST! i was soo scared going in but had so much fun. PM me if you want to see any of my pics. I already told the photog that I will be hitting her up when i get preggo.
Mine was about $355 for a 30 page book, it's not really an album, more of a coffee table book, but the pages are hard and durable. Anyways, I did my own makeup, which I was a little nervous about, but my photographer does a lot of amazing photoshopping and I was blown away by the photos. They looked amazing!
I take your point completely, but generally a boudoir shot should be more glamourous so I would be concerned that you wouldn't be pleased with the results.
If you take your two photos as an example, you can see that your skin is far more shiny without the foundation and powder the mua has given you in the other shot. I agree that the resulting made-up shot doesn't look like you though! Its really really important to agree the look you want with the photographer and mua. We often use cut-outs from magazines or internet images to make sure we're both on the same page.
Photoshopping is useful but (a) it takes time and (b) it cannot totally correct a compromised shot. If your photographer takes 100 shots then they will only be able to make generic changes to all of them and really go to town on a handful - so the better the originals the more you will get for your money.
I hope that helps a bit :)
David
PS feel free to browse my website on diy boudoir photography (link is in my profile) to help get some concrete ideas of what results you want from your shoot.
I did boudoir photos and definitely had a professional makeup/hairstylist. I felt like i had way too much on before the shoot, but it translated well enough. Case in point: a boudoir photo and a wedding photo. Both professional makeup applications, different goals, obviously =]. I wish i would've worn false eyelashes for my boudoir session though.
I paid about $700 for everything, plus a 20 page photo book for DH
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I might consider having make up done... be really firm on the fact that i dont want to look like someone else LOL the photo that we had done she didn't ask what i wanted... she just did it like that. HATE lipstick blah LOL
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ok so i have decided to go through with it... I'm planning on giving him the photo's once we get to our room when we're on our honeymoon (that way i know no one else is going to see it by mistake.. like "oh whats this book? WHOOPS" LOL)
anyway... i'm just wondering what other people have paid and what they got for it.
The package i'm looking at getting is $345 and that includes 5x7 prints of all images and 5 digital images (which i'm not sure what this is... i'm guessing it's 5 edited favorites on a CD?... i've emailed and asked what it is)
the other 2 packages were $550 and $895 but they had a canvas print out and more digitalk images... i think the cheap on is all i know... there is no way i want a canvas of myself hanging up in the house LOL
http://lushboudoir.com/?load=flash
I've looked at her photo's and all the other things and she seems to be really good... glad it's a woman too LOL
what do you bees think? should i go ahead and book it?