Now I’ll admit most of the time I don’t put a lot of stock in these things – I’ve received awards from some wedding sites for having just a single positive review, and of course if you’re sucker enough to pay for advertising on some of these sites (cough cough the knot cough cough) your almost guaranteed to get some kind of web badge/award.

I rather like this one though since it shows that a wide variety of various wedding sites, blogs, and magazines liked the work I submitted well enough to print it.

Of course not a lot of credit for that goes to me, most of it goes to my clients, their wedding planners, and the amazing wedding vendors they used to create their wedding – all I did was document what everyone else did.

All sessions revolve around the boudoir book, a special art book printed on fine art paper, similar to my custom art books and engagement signature books.

Session can either be in studio or several area hotels can be recommended for that more romantic feel.   I usually suggest finding a friend or two who might also be interested and schedule your sessions together.

Sessions start at $400 and include the album.

Of course for the client who might not be 100% comfortable with a male photographer I do have a small referral list of female photographers whose specialty is this style of photography.

Here’s a few in studio looks:

Note: these images are all from test shoots – we never post client photos of this nature online.

One of my favorite studio sessions was with a friend and model, Megan, and the entire shoot was all about black and white with strong and contrasty lighting.  We called it the Anti-Glamour shoot.

The camera is my old backup camera that has been modified to shoot full time infrared.   Normally I use this strictly in B&W mode for those amazing infrared scenic and wide angle venue shots I like to do at weddings.   Through a lot of experimentation what I found is that with a few tweaks to the lights, some tweaks to the cameras custom white balance, etc, etc, etc, I get an amazing blue toned infrared image.

These shots take a bit – the camera has to be manually focused for the range I’m shooting in – locked down and then manually refocused each time the distance changes – so it’s not ideal for fast subjects.