For a photographer who loves using natural lighting and nature’s glorious landscape for backdrops, it doesn’t get much better than this.  Other than having another hour’s worth of energy (for me, not my beautiful client), I wouldn’t change a single thing about this outdoor boudoir session this past weekend.  It.  Was.  Picture.  Perfect.

Coming from Columbus, Ohio, Yellow Springs is a quick 55 minute drive, giving us the perfect amount of time to prepare ourselves for the shoot.  No matter how many outdoor boudoir sessions I have completed, I am nervous before each and every one.  Will my client be comfortable “in public”?  Will we be photographing in the middle of someone else’s shoot?  Will I be spending hours and hours editing the images to eliminate passers-by from my background?

Luckily for me, these answers are “No”, “No,” and “No.”

My client was amazingly comfortable.  Partly because that is absolutely who she is.  Partly because we have worked together before (LOVE, LOVE repeat clients!) and partly, I think, because that is something I do well. . . help my clients feel comfortable in front of the camera.  Taylor packed her clothes conveniently in a backpack that we carried with us out in the field.  Holding a large beach towel around her, she was able to change very quickly from one outfit to another.  The thickness of the field of flowers hid all of our “stuff” that was laying on the ground around us.  Brilliant, huh?

While there were plenty of sight-seers, families and photographers around, this field of sunflowers is large enough for everyone!  We carried our photography gear, ladder and backpack of clothing to a corner of the field that most people wouldn’t bother walking to.  Well worth the extra steps!

I will most definitely be spending hours and hours of time reviewing and editing these images.  Not because there are elements in the background that need to be photoshopped out.  I will spend many hours looking at these images because they are simply beautiful.  They represent, to me, all that I love about what I do as a photographer.  My joy is in showing my clients how they are seen through my lens.  How other people see them.  Placing clients in front of such gorgeous backdrops, selecting flattering and contrasting colors of clothing, talking to them to the point of distraction (wait, you had a camera with you??) so that we can capture a simple, natural looking image that celebrates who you are.  THAT is what is beautiful about being a boudoir photographer.

Outdoor boudoir session by photographer Brenda Kerns

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