I just love looking through old photos! These pics are from January 2008, when our very first copies of the Workshop Book arrived (actually, back then it was called “The Bad-Ass Training Guide). After so many months of hard work and late nights of writing and designing this baby, we finally had the chance to hold it in our hands. Such a great feeling! 🙂
And here’s a shot of us with Deena & Crystal at our Book Release Party! These gals have been w/ the studio from the beginning, and we wouldn’t be where we are today without them. On the night of our book release party, D & C stood up and gave us a toast – it was SOOO sweet, and almost made us cry! We love you gals!
As we announced yesterday… our November workshop attendees will have the chance to purchase the workshop book when they are out here in a few weeks! We are so excited for the workshop! We’re booking our models today – and by models I mean past CLIENTS! Just as we’ve said all along, we really want our workshop attendees to have the opportunity to work with real clients (so that you’ll have to practice the posing techniques you learn here!)… rather than working with a professional model who does all the work for you! 🙂 Anyway, just wanted to let you know that we’ve got some smokin’ hot client-models signed up to work with us here on our day of shooting! It’s going to be AWESOME!
*NOTE: we no longer have any $100 off workshop seats available – they’ve all been snatched up! We do still have some regular priced boudoir workshop seats available, so if you’re interested, go to the Boudoir Shop to register!
We might be just a LITTLE biased, but in our opinion, you really couldn’t pick a better location to visit for a boudoir workshop than SAN DIEGO! We are so excited about our November 09 workshop – and thought we should share a few of OUR favorite things to do in San Diego, so that all of our workshop attendees can start planning their trips! We highly recommend staying for a few extra days to enjoy beautiful SD. Here are a few of our favorite things…
MARISSA’s picks:
1) Hike Torrey Pines Beach Reserve and watch the pods of dolphins
2) Pretend I am a guest at Hotel Del Coronado…..(eat lunch and waaay overstay my welcome)
3) Walk on the beach in the morning and deeply inhale the cool, fresh, salty sea air…. ahhh… just thinking about my fav stress reliever makes me feel years younger
KIMBERLEE’s picks:
1) Kayaking in La Jolla
2) Exploring the gaslamp quarter… I love trying out new restaurants downtown. Also, it’s really fun to check out the Altitude Bar @ the Mariott downtown – it has an awesome view of downtown & the harbor! Really cool spot. 🙂
3) Seaworld! I feel like a kid whenever I go the Shamu show or feed the dolphins!
This is a little promo vid that we made about 6 months ago to promote our last San Diego workshop. If you’re interested in joining us in November for the Boudoir Workshop, CLICK HERE! If you have questions or want to see some more info, you can view our PDF that has ALL the info about the workshop!!!
A lot of peeps have been calling & emailing w/ questions about the boudoir workshop… here is one question we’ve been getting a lot recently:
What’s the main difference between the San Diego workshop versus Las Vegas or Paris???
ANSWER: At the San Diego boudoir workshop, you’ll be getting a complete behind-the-scenes look into the Boudoir Divas studio… you’ll get to shoot on 3 of our favorite sets… and you’ll get a chance to meet all of the fab SD studio team! Click on the photo below for a little glimpse into the SD boudoir studio!
And lastly… If you’re already registered for the SD November workshop, be sure to check out the Facebook Page so that we can all start getting to know each other before next month!
One of the BEST things about our San Diego boudoir workshop: Building your bad-ass portfolio! The first full day of the workshop is dedicated completely to: POSING… SHOOTING… and LIGHTING! We want you to leave the boudoir workshop with a solid understanding of these things – and we also want you to have the opportunity to implement everything that we talk about. We’ll be teaching you how to coach your client through posing and expression, showing you which poses are the most flattering for all body types. We’ll show you our shooting style as you observe us working with a client in our studio. We’ll show you the different lighting set-ups we use on a daily basis in our studio, giving you all the equipment specs, then showing you how we utilize the lights while we demonstrate with a client’s photo shoot. After you’ve heard us talk about posing, lighting, and shooting, the rest of the day is dedicated to YOU – shooting and implementing all of the things we’ve talked about. You’ll be shooting in groups, using 3 of our favorite sets here at the San Diego boudoir studio. You’ll also be shooting outside, getting some more fashion-inspired images using natural light outdoors. Finally (and this is the BEST part!), you’ll also have an opportunity to work one-on-one with a ‘client’ so that you will have the chance to actually put these techniques into practice, as if you were doing a real photo shoot on your own. Of course, we’ll be on-hand if you have any questions, or if you get stuck and need a little help with posing. But we really want you to have a few minutes of working alone, without having to ‘fight for your shot’ by working around the other photographers. We pride ourselves in this aspect of the workshop… from our very first boudoir workshop in January 2008, we knew that we wanted this to be something we would offer to our attendees. AND, another thing that we take pride in offering our attendees… we use REAL CLIENTS for our models on the day of shooting! Again, from the very first workshop, we have always wanted to make sure that you are getting the very best experience possible here at the Boudoir Workshop. We want you to leave here with a solid portfolio, yes, of course… but we also want you to leave here with the confidence to be able to go home and immediately implement everything you’ve learned. If we were using only professional models, we wouldn’t be equipping you to implement our posing and coaching techniques – because professional models do all the work for you! It’s way too easy to get good shots of models without ever having to try to pose them (they already know all the best poses!). So by us using real clients as our models for the day of shooting, you will be able to practice our posing techniques with REAL women. This is such a cool part of our workshop!
We’re so excited to meet all of you who are already signed up for the November San Diego workshop! It’s going to be such a great experience. If you’d like to see more info on the November workshop, CLICK HERE! Also, we still have just a FEW spots left at the $100 off price! What are you waiting for?? Go register now!!!
Can you believe WPPI time is almost here already? I certainly can’t. Last year the week of WPPI, and the days before and after, were some of the most fun and exciting days of our lives. We had a full workshop. a demo shoot with KISS, a party to celebrate the launch of our POSEBOOK, and then on top of it all, we also had our booth at the convention! Kimberlee and I love doing workshop and talking with other photographers and this year we want to be sure that we are bringing you exactly what you want. Below you will see a poll between the two workshops that we are considering. One will be the same program that we do here at our studio, and the second is a one day ‘petite’ version of our typical boudoir workshop. In the mini workshop we will still go over lighting and posing, and you will have some time to shoot and build your portfolio as well, but as informative and helpful as it will be, it won’t be the in-depth, secret-spilling, overload of info that is included in the regular workshop. We know that price and just your overall goals for WPPI will influence your decision, so please vote to let us know which appeals the most to you. Thanks everyone!!! Oh, and if you have other ideas regarding the WPPI week, feel free to leave a comment below as well. And, yes, we will be having a booth again at WPPI,
so even if you aren’t considering a workshop, we’ll see you there!
The November SD boudoir workshop is officially open for registration! CLICK HERE to register (and get $100 off!!!) *NOTE: The $100 off price is only available for the first 8 peeps who register…. so those first EIGHT lucky workshop attendees will be paying $1100 instead of $1200! (If you’re having problems with registering through the Boudoir Shop, feel free to call the studio phone number and place your order over the phone: 858-485-0443). CLICK HERE to get more info! We’d love to have you join us at our SD studio next month for the workshop! Hope to see you there!
***EDIT TO ADD: The $100 off price is no longer available – those spots have all been filled! We DO have just a few more regular workshop seats available. Join us at the BEST boudoir workshop out there! 🙂 Can’t wait for November; see you soon!
