Category Boudoir Vous

Please take a look, let me know if you have any questions…https://boudoirvous.co.uk/

What is Boudoir photography? Well it means different things to different women, basically it’s a photo shoot which is designed specifically around your wishes. For some women they want to have a make-over and have some glamorous style shots in a new outfit or lingerie, for other women its part of a healing road back to recovery after surgery, divorce or struggles with self esteem. All women of all ages (over 18) and sizes are welcome through our doors. Please arrange a visit ( Boudoirvous.co.uk) and come and have a chat over a cuppa to find out more.

Email: lindsay@boudoirvous.co.uk

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence – Blake Lively

It was nice to have a break but we are pleased to be back, hope you all had a good Xmas wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year.

As a quick reminder I just want to let everyone know that I do all sorts of photography from people to products. I also hire out my studio to other amateur and pro photographers for only £25 p/h (min 2hrs). Please get in contact if you have any questions- 01206 768721 or email me: lindsay@lindsaywakelinphotography.com

If you would like to find out more please drop me a line at lindsay@boudoirvous.co.uk

At Boudoirvous we pride ourselves on being an all female team, with a highly skilled hair and make-up artist you can choose to have your hair and make-up styled before your photoshoot.

The shoot is very personal and tailored to creating the kinds of images you want, we discuss styles and types of poses and clothing and before the date of your shoot. There is no need to be nervous you can call in for a cuppa beforehand or you can bring a friend with you on the day.

Find out more about my Boudoir Photography for women at Boudoirvous.co.uk

For more info go to my Boudoir website –

https://boudoirvous.co.uk/

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Loading the presets and brushes was pretty straight forward, I thought I knew how to do it but couldn’t quite remember the steps. I was glad that Sleeklens had sent me over very clear instructions on how to load them into Lightroom. The package comes with 70 Presets which include all in one changes to your image, base changes, exposure adjustments, colour correct, tone/tint, polish and one of my faves vignette and 62 brushes include all kinds of handy make-up tools from adding eyeliner to defining hair.

Once I knew the presets and brushes were loaded I chose an image taken outside and a studio shot to see how I could use the Sleeklens Portrait workflow to enhance my images.

Original Image:

I wanted to brighten the image above as it all seemed too dark so in the Presets on the left hand side of Lightroom I applied ‘Exposure-Brighten’ then wanted to warm the image up a little by adding ‘Tone/Tint-Warm-up’ then added ‘Vignette- Black Dreamy’ to bring the attention back to the centre. The Presets are easy to apply you can just click or undo if you don’t like the adjustment you just made you can go back either in the history panel to the left of Lightroom or go to ‘Edit’ top left and click ‘undo’.

I am not sure if it is just my wheel on my mouse but when I clicked on the brush tool I have to use the up and down arrow in the brush window I can’t use the wheel on my mouse to scroll through the brushes which takes a bit of extra time and is more clunky than just scrolling up and down the choices, but I think that might just be my mouse it is quite old after all!

I used the brushes on the right hand side to choose some finer adjustments I wanted to apply, I darkened the dog and and black trousers by using the ‘Darken Shadows’ brush I also added some extra saturation with the ‘High Saturation’ brush to apply on the right of the picture just to bring it a bit more to life. I also wanted to add a bit of a golden glow in the gap in the trees as that looked a bit pale and washed out so I used the ‘Haze-Golden’ brush and just painted circular brush stroked to add some sunny warmth to that gap in the trees.

I also used the ‘Base- Auto Tone Black & White’ preset as I wanted to see what the black and white would look like. Black and whites can vary so much but I liked how this one converted using the preset often they can be too bright or too dark so you have to tweak until you get the tone you are happy with but I was pleased with this result.

Next an image I took in the studio, I chose an image which was very shallow depth of filed and almost washed out in appearance. I wanted to see how I could improve it and bring it back to life.

Original image:

The first things I applied from the presets were ‘Auto Tone’ preset which instantly gave it more oomph and depth of colour, I added the ‘Vignette-Black Dreamy’ to add more contrast to the edges of the image then used several brush tools to enhance the face.

I used the following face brushes to add some extra definition:  Reduce Wrinkles,Rosy Lips, Define Blonde Hair, Portrait Punch, Darken, Add Contour To Cheeks, Add EyeLiner, Reduce Highlights, Subtle Smooth Skin, Sharpen Face (to brush over her eyes). The image now looks warmer and has more depth without losing it’s soft feathery feel.

I was surprised by the number and variation of the brushes, I like how they are grouped into categories so they are easier to find. It meant I had to spend less time going to Photoshop and back as I now have a better selection of tools within Lightroom which are so easy to use. I tried using the presets and brushes on other images and found they can be used for all sorts of portraits inside and out, I am chuffed with my Sleeklens presets and brushes as they give me fast easy options to use with my Portrait Photography but also my Boudoir and Family Photography.

To find out more about Sleeklens go to – Tutorials, Presets, Pinterest.