In today's episode you will learn my method for making your photos look more sexy. Use these techniques to bring your photos to life. We are all sending selfies so you may as well put the shabang to them. I teach you a really cool standing post that makes your body look good.
In today's episode you will learn my method for making your photos look more sexy. Use these techniques to bring your photos to life. We are all sending selfies so you may as well put the shabang to them. I teach you a really cool standing post that makes your body look good.
Hey, what's going on? I want to talk to you all today about how to look sexy and photos. I'm a boudoir photographer. So naturally, I'm going to talk about one day is going to come up how to look sexy and photo. So that day has arrived. So stay tuned so that I can tell you all about one of the poses that I use, and how to make it look really sexy. Welcome to the mind, body and boudoir podcast. I'm your host Catherine Cooper, wife, mother to six lover of sweet tea and dancing. I'm also the owner of a thriving boudoir photography studio located in Dallas, Texas. After photographing over 500 ladies that are looking for permission to feel beautiful and sexy about themselves. I'm now on a mission to help women find confidence around their mind and body while tossing the guilt of taking some time for themselves in the trash. Let's check. Alright, so what's going on everybody? This is going to be episode number nine. I believe I could be totally wrong, but I'm not going to go back and edit that. But I think it's episode nine. Okay. So the way you all know how I do it, I record and I put it out there. So in this week's episode, I want to talk about how to look sexy in photos. And what brought this up is the fact that Valentine's Day is coming. And I know that even though you all aren't thinking about it right now, it normally happens right? As soon as February gets in, or you walk into a store, and you see all the love red pillows and hearts and candy and all that kind of stuff. And then you start thinking, Hmm, this is the month of love. I should do something sexy, I should take like some sexy photos, or figure out how to have a cool dinner. And we're in the middle of a pandemic. So you probably thinking about going to a restaurant. So naturally, what else comes to mind? photos? And now I'm not saying all of you think that way, but I do. But there's a few people that do there's a lot of women that think their way is not even women. Some men think that way. I have a lot of me and they reach out to me that purchase boudoir sessions for their wife. And so yeah, they think about it too. Alright, so I wanted to tell you guys a little story about how, how I even how I started. So for those of you who don't know me, I'm a boudoir photographer. And so boudoir is just intimate photos that a woman has done for herself or her significant other. And it's all done in like lingerie. We go for the most part is lingerie, there you go. You want to find out more, you feel free to visit my website. And you'll know all about it there. But anyway, so I was thinking to myself, when I was trying to come up with a topic for this podcast, or which subject to talk about and it popped in my head because like this is literally what I do all the time. And I was looking at my schedule and February is so freakin packed with ladies that are coming in to have you know, their boudoir photos done. And I was just thinking to myself, geez, like, I can't fit anyone else into my schedule, maybe what I could do is for those that, you know, just want to maybe do something cool at home, maybe just give them like a few tips on how you can achieve some sexy photos. Now I'm not going to be able to go through poses over a microphone or anything like that, but there is one that I'm going to give you and I'm going to tell you how to bring it out and how to make it more sexy. And you can use this tip with any polls or anything that you do. So before I dive into it, let me just tell you a little bit like a little backstory, okay, because y'all know I love telling some stories. So that's what I'm going to do. So basically, I have always love looking at, like model photos. And also, I love to dance. So if you if you don't follow me on Instagram, I don't know why. So go now go ahead and do it. You can pause this and always come back. Or after you finish, you can always go to my Instagram, Catherine Cooper Studios and you can see me on there. But I love to dance so I was a Zumba instructor a few years back as well. And what I have found is that well first before I get into that, like I say I've always loved like looking at model photos. Long time ago before I even thought about being a boudoir photographer I thought about you know, like I would play around and find like music videos that I loved and I would try to like recreate them myself. Self. And one day I told my husband is when we were like really early in our relationship. I was just like, Man, I wish I wish I could come up with a way where I can take women and like put them in their own, like Beyonce video and make them like, super fabulous and stuff like their own, like production. I think I've spoken to you all about this before. And you all know how my husband is he's like, yeah, okay, you know, he's not the brightest. So Good thing I can cheer myself on. I mean, he's not the most excited not I didn't mean to say bright. He's very smart. But he wasn't that excited about it. But I'm just telling you guys what I thought about I thought about like, putting women in their own music videos, you know, and being able to create create that. So anyway. So I always, like I said, practice, on like, ways to move my body in ways to you know, look sexy, because I like love watching videos. I don't know, who doesn't, you know, who doesn't love like watching videos? Or you know, watching people dance and move and things like that? I do? I know I do. And that's, you know, that's something that probably never go away. But um, so anyway, even though I loved it is a different situation when it comes to posing, or coaching someone else to do it, if that makes sense. It's totally different. Like, have you all ever seen like, these awesome, like makeup artists, and they do their makeup, and they're so beautiful, and things like that. And then when they do someone else's you like, you need to practice a little bit. Right? Okay. So that's what I mean, like, it's different when you're doing someone else, you definitely have to practice. So I was very good at doing it myself. But I had to invite a few friends to kind of come along with me so that I could, you know, practice a little bit. So after all these years of practicing, I have definitely developed a style and a way Well, I would have to say a method. I've definitely developed a method that I use that works every single time when it comes to posing women, and it just makes them look super freakin hot AF in photos, okay. So I'm going to teach you all one of those today. Okay, so here's the thing. Before you even get started, you have to number one, give yourself a little grace here, okay? You have to give yourself a little grace. And what I mean by that is, you have to give yourself a chance to mess up and you have to give yourself a chance to feel silly as hell. Okay. Now, if anyone is listening to this podcast that has come into my studio and been photographed by me before they know 100%, where I'm going with this, when they're in the studio, and I've coaching them and things like that, it feels silly, like a lot of ladies will laugh at it, because they're like, there is no way the sexy is coming out to me. But then when they see their images, they see something totally different. And the reason for that is the method that I use to bring that out. So like I said, I'm gonna teach you how to do it today. And if what I'm saying, if you're like a visual person like me, and you want to actually see how something you know, see it, I do have a free download on my website, it's called Five Ways to look sexy and photos, all you have to do is just do not go right now. But finished listening to the show. But what you do is you go to my website, and it's on the homepage, probably on any of the pages, but all you do is just scroll down to the bottom. And you'll see down at the bottom, it'll say five ways to look sexy and photo. So you just put your information in there and just download the guide. So use what I'm saying today, along with that guy, and I guarantee you, you'll love the results. So the first thing so what I'm going to teach you is a standing sexy pose. That's what I'm going to teach you so and the reason why I'm going to teach this one is because I've some of my clients who have done it have like went back home and kind of practiced it a little bit or you know, with their husbands or significant other and they actually get some really good reaction behind it. So Alright, so the way you do it is, so let's just say you're standing on a wall. So you stand on the wall and you you are facing outwards so you're not facing the wall. You are like leaning up against the wall, so you're back in your butt is on the wall. And so what you do is so you stand on the wall, and then you put both feet together so the feet stay together the entire time, the feet don't move, okay? The only thing you're going to do so as you're standing on the wall What you do is you take the right leg, and you push the knee forward. So you'll kind of come up on the ball of the right foot, but the feet still stay together, if that makes sense. So like the toes stay aligned. And so you bring that foot, you bring the, you bring the heel up, so you'll be on the ball of the right foot, as you push that knee forward, and then what you're going to do is you're going to take that booty, you're going to push the booty on the wall, and you're going to push the head on the wall. So everything else comes off of the wall, you say, booty is back to the wall, and the head is back to the wall. And so this is how you create what I call the arch. So like, if you hear me talk a lot, if you hear me talk about like how I oppose women and things like that, I always say something like arch to back. So that's how you arch, you push that booty back, and you push that chest forward, and then you push the head back. So the only thing session a wall is the boot, hey, and the head. Alright, and so now what you want to do is so the butt is on the wall and the head is on the wall. So then what you're going to do is you are going to kind of push the left hip out towards a push the left hip to the right side, maybe to the left side, not the right, definitely not the right. So you're gonna take that left hip, push it out there. And the way you do it without it looking weird, is you make sure that the only so when I say push the butt up against the wall, both booty cheeks are going to be on the wall. But to make sure that that left hip goes out, you kind of twist and make sure that the right butt cheek is on the wall. So at this point, you only have the right butt cheek and the head on the wall, it feels at this point, you will definitely feel weird. So after you do that, that is pretty much the pose. Now what you do to make it sexy is and you can practice this, like if you put your camera on. I'm trying to think what you can put your camera Oh, you know what, what will make it fun if you like had your husband trying to help you, you know, take the photos, but you can definitely put the camera on yourself and just try it put it on like a timer or something like that. But what you want to do to make it sexy, is you bring the hands up and down the body, you just kind of like so this is the time where you fall in love with your body. So you bring your hands you start down at the thighs and you come all the way up all the way up to the neck and then you come all the way back down. Now while you're doing that, you bring it so the head is already on the wall. So it's already kind of tilt it up a bit towards the sky. So all you do is just bring it up just a tad bit more, close the eyes. And you just take big deep breaths. So you just move in the hands up and down the body while you're taking big deep breaths. Okay, as you're taking those big, deep breaths and the eyes are closed, then soon as that timer gets to 10, or whatever it is, if it's on, you know, if it's on a countdown, a 10 second timer, what you do is all you do is just open up and look right into that camera lens. That's it, it will change your life. So again, so let me just recap and go over that really, really quickly. And if you want some examples of this, I 100% have some women on my Instagram that are in this pose. But remember, you stand up, put both feet together, you're gonna take that right leg, right leg, you don't push the knee out. So you just bend the knee, you come up on the ball the foot, which means that you raise the heel of your right foot, you're gonna push the blue back to the wall, push the head back to the wall. So the only thing that's gonna be on the wall, everything else is gonna be out. And that's how you create the arch. Then you just slide that right booty cheek onto the wall, which means that you kind of like moving the left butt cheek off of the wall and pushing it to the left. Then you just lightly take your hands and move it up and down your body. Make sure you're taking big, big deep breaths. That's the one thing I forgot to tell you. Make sure you take a big deep breath as you're doing it and your eyes are closed. Then when that timer hits 10 you just open up your eyes and just softly look into the camera. It works and it's beautiful. So but what you have to do is don't get overwhelmed, it's gonna feel silly so you may want to do it by yourself and just practice but do not get overwhelmed and be okay feeling silly. And once you nail it then go put on like your favorite lingerie or favorite bra and panties set. You know and then if you do have like a significant other around like this is like a fun game you all can do on Valentine's Day. You have your significant other around, let him take photos of you. Let him take some photos. Let him walk around and get photos. Let him get your eyes closed. They let him get your eyes open. And just watch what I tell you. So I hope that that made some kind of sense. Remember what I said, you can always, always, always, always go to my website, if you want to learn more about how to breathe and how to bring the head up and how to look into the camera and things like that I do have a free guide, like I said, all you have to do is just go to my website, scroll down to the bottom of the homepage, don't hit the book now button unless you're ready. I'll be more than happy. I'm always ready. But if you're not ready for that, go down to the bottom. And look where it says five, download your five ways to look sexy and photos. download that and use them have fun. And if you do use them, oh my gosh, send me a picture. Send me a picture like post it. tag me on Instagram, please tag me on Instagram. I just want to know if it did work for you. You know, that will make me happy for sure. So anyway, I hope that helped. I hope that you all are. If you're not thinking about Valentine's Day, you probably are going to be thinking about it now. But I want you to make it fun. You know, it's enough seriousness going on in the world. Let's just make it fun. And get some photos of yourself. You deserve it. So what I want you all to do is I just realized that I didn't even tell you where to go and get the guide. So my website is Catherine Cooper photography.com you scroll to the bottom of the website. And that's where you'll find that guy. If you take the pictures and you want to tag me on Instagram is Catherine Cooper Studios and studio or is it studios I don't know. But anyway, that's it, but with the sea not with the cake. All I have for you today, and I will see you guys talk to you all in the next episode. If you enjoy today's episode and you're curious to learn more about me, feel free to look me up at Catherine Cooper photography.com Bye Love