A brief list of ideas
My goal is not to take the same old photos as everyone else. Sometimes that means I am looking to take photos different than anything I’ve shot before, too.
Sometimes I have a crazy idea that may or may not work. Or maybe just needs to be tried to iron out the kinks. Whatever it is, I am constantly on the lookout for people who want to be on the cutting edge of creativity ...or maybe enjoy the process so much they don’t mind waiting while the photographer adjusts the lights. Again.
The goal here is to match the idea to the person. Deathly afraid of the water? Let me know and I won't send you out into the middle of the lake with a canoe.
Shots for individuals
Boudnoir
Dark and mysterious, the femme fatale is a staple of film noir. Picture yourself in the role of the seductive, sexy star of your own film. Or, damsel in distress. Elegant. Mysterious. Sexy. Classic George Hurrell-style images.
iPhone
It’s not the gear that makes the photographer, but the vision. I’d like to do a shoot creating pro level images with just an iPhone.
Horse
Think Lady Godiva. Or not. This idea is all about the relationship between the horse and rider.
Gatsby
Vintage 1920s/flapper era inspired images.
Mary Tyler Moore
Vintage 1970s
Jane Fonda
Vintage 1980s
Bed in water
Take a air mattress, dress it up like an elegant bed, then set it adrift on the water.
Bed in tree
Take and create a bedframe in the woods and hang it from a tree/series of trees.
Canoe/boat
Take a canoe out on a mountain lake, like Azuzetta. Put blankets in the bottom of the boat. Shoot with a drone, top down. Enjoy.
Body paint/UV Paint
Self explanatory. Both the act of painting, not just having been painted.
decorated with icing
Hire a cake decorator to ice your body. Bonus points if you have a significant other you can invite along to help clean the icing off….
Slow Motion glitter shower
I hate glitter. I did a shoot with glitter four years ago, and I still find glitter in my camera bag. But it’s beautiful. A number of concepts around this one, including video shot at super slow motion as naked you has glitter dumped on you from above.
Hot Stuff
Think laying in bed in a room lit by a few hundred candles. Kinda like that scene from Desperado….
Winter tanning
Get in touch with your inner feline as you come in from cold, and, finding patch of sun on floor, get naked and lay down in it.
Bubbles
A few years ago, I bought a machine that created small bubbles. Not Don Ho tiny bubbles. Even smaller. Like a bath. I have yet to be able to shoot with it.
Shibari
Okay, this one is not a one-off. I am learning to tie. Anyone who wants to let me practice and shoot the results. There are hundreds of ties, so it’s basically endless.
Cross
I don’t have a St. Andrew’s Cross. But if you do….
Masks
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask. ~Agatha Christie
A mask tells us more than a face.—Oscar Wilde
Masks can be used to hide identity but they can also reveal character and emotion.
They can be creepy or they can be sexual. They can be used as a symbol of control, or of freedom. They can be used to draw attention away from someone's identity and focus it elsewhere.
If you were to wear a mask, how would that affect you? What type of mask would you wear? Would it allow you to reveal a side of you that has been hidden? Your sensuality? Your danger? Your emotions?
By hiding your face, perhaps you may reveal your soul.
Lighting the lake (LED Balloons)
A lake and a hundred balloons floating in the water, each with an LED light inside.
Flashdance
You know the scene I’m talking about.
Lose the dress
Like trash the dress, but different.
Blindfold
Like masks, but even moreso.
Flour shoot
White makeup, whitened hair on black with thrown flour.
Mirror seduction
Watching the person in the mirror as they try to seduce you as you try and seduce the person in the mirror
Netflix and jill
This one’s extremely spicy, as you watch sexy TV and get turned on….
Silhouette
Figure study in black.
Sports
A boudoir ode to your favourite sport. Track. Slo-pitch. Vollyball.
Tom boy
Boudoir isn’t just about being a girly girl.
Shots for couples/pairs/groups
Toques and Tickles
A video idea with five degrees of hotness:
Toques:
A pair walk through the forest on a fall day, laughing and joking. One grabs the other's toque. The second gives chase. After a merry romp, the prey is caught and either tackled to the ground or pinned against a tree, with arms trapped above head. (The rest plays out as if on the ground.)
Tickles
The toque is rescued, then shoved into the pinned person's mouth. The person in control begins to tickle the trapped person's side. Short, gentle, teasing bursts. Lots of laughter and crinkly eyes.
Tease
After an intense moment pressed against the other, the tickling becomes gentle touching along her side, and the laughter becomes gentle moans. A pause, staring into each others eyes. The top person grabs toque in her teeth and pulls it out. Heavy breathing. Lips almost touching. The sexual tension thickens until the gentle touching becomes a tickle again. The pinned person gasps in frustration, then breaks free, rolling on top and pinning the other's arms with her legs. Begins playing with other's hair. Dropping leaves towards her face. Begins teasing her. Unbuttoning buttons of shirt, dragging leaf across skin.
Touch
Teasing touches turn to full on caressing, skin on skin
Taste
Lips get involved.
Breakfast in Bed
Person walks in carrying a tray full of breakfast materials. Wakes up person in bed. Begins to feed her. Things get messy. Bananas, yoghurt, bananas dipped in yoghurt…I mean, it doesn’t have to be yoghurt, it’s just so symbolic.
The massage
Pretty self explanatory. Hot oil on skin….
So long sucker
Two people, one sucker. Also works with ice cream, popsicle and …?
This is, of course, not a complete list of ideas. (Did I mention beach? Baking? Snowbunny? Erotic literature? Gah! Too many ideas!) But my goal is to find an idea that works for you, even if it’s not on this list. Maybe reading this list inspired you, or reminded you of an idea you had in the past. While I might not say yes to every idea (I don’t shoot anything that denigrates women and I am not a fan of sexy gore, just as a start), I want to hear them as bizarre or kinky or silly or sexy or simple as they are.