I’ve spent a lot of years perfecting clean, crisp, thoughtfully lit, and sharp photography. I won’t lie; it felt like a personal attack when I heard that blurry, grainy, direct flash images were in style for weddings. I knew the style would come to boudoir too, so I gritted my teeth and set my shutter speed super slow.
Growing up in the 90s, we got out of focus direct flash images with our cheap cameras, but we would have loved for them to not be that way. Now, our phones are so smart that it’s actually harder to take a “wrong” photo.
Of course, there’s actually no wrong way to do photography because it is art. So I leaned into experimenting and wound up having an amazing time and loving the images.
Some of these were done with my Sony mirrorless, and most were done with my little Ricoh GRIII and a tiny cheap flash (pictured below).
Hair and Makeup: Tia of Brush Fire Artistry
Muse: Mindy
