Boudoir Photography Bootcamp

Reviews

• <p>So far, I&#39;m a bit disappointed with this class, and I was hoping for MUCH more.</p> <p>I think this is way overpriced for $149 for purchase during &quot;live event&#39;. You only get 15 days, 1 hour or 30 min each day, so, figure tops you&#39;re getting 12 hours max. I&#39;m estimating about 10-11 hours, but I&#39;m only on day 9 at the time of this review.</p> <p>Week 1 - I felt was largely useless. Yes, Jen is a very nice presenter, and there is &#39;some&#39; meat in here, but the first 2x days the &#39;live&#39; days were just her talking in general, giving the syllabus and some gear talk. </p> <p>This also started kicking things off as somewhat more of an infomercial for her Guides and products on her website, rather than a class full of content. She advertises a Lingerie guide, and a Posing Guide but you have to go to her site, and put in a code to get 10% off. With the price of this class, I would have hoped they would be included. If they were, I might change my thoughts on the value of this class.</p> <p>Day 3 was her NYC studio tour. Ok, it was nice, but passed on virtually nothing of use for a budding boudoir photog. It was only maybe 30 min, and honestly should not take up an entire &quot;day&quot; of the class.</p> <p>I didn&#39;t see all of Day 4, but what I did see, was nice.</p> <p>Day 5 - There was some useful information here. But again, a VERY short video, mostly of Jen in a lingerie store picking up items and talking about them. Again, some of this was useful. What would have made it worth more like the $149 price point, would have been her printed guide to go with this. Again, I was expecting more in-depth for this class.</p> <p>In all honesty, I missed days 6 and 7. I really wanted to see these classes, and hope to catch them on rewatch and will review based on what I see when I catch them.</p> <p>Day 8 - There was some useful stuff here, Jen shooting models. It was mostly her instructing the model and shooting, but I was hoping for more detailed explanations on the &quot;why&quot; you do this or that, than just saying &quot; do this, move here, &quot; and showing it on the monitor. Again, not a complete loss and I don&#39;t mean to be too hard here, I got some good info from this day, just was hoping for a bit more on the level of other CL instructors like Lou Freeman, or Sue Bryce. I know everyone has their own style, but for something as specialized as Boudoir, I was hoping for more guidance specifically on posing for catching the curves, shadows, etc of the feminine physique. </p> <p>Day 9 - Just finished watching. You&#39;re watching Jen shoot a model in her NYC studio. Some useful information. Her giving instructions to model in front of natural light (window) and with strobe, mostly against a wall. Again, interesting to watch, I picked up some gems of info, but again was hoping for more detail and instruction on &quot;why&quot;, &quot;how&quot;, what this does vs that? Jen on some days has shown some &quot;bad&quot; things not to do, which I like...but just didn&#39;t seem to be a detailed as some of the greats of CL past.</p> <p>This is as far as I&#39;ve seen so far, I&#39;ll try to update as it goes, but to date, I don&#39;t see it worth $149 vs her last class (which I saw parts of )....which gave you 3x full day classes for a sale price now of $99. 11-12 hours vs approx 18 or so hours?</p> <p>And the <em>informercial</em> aspect of this class annoys me some. Every day it seems she hawks her guides to buy on her website, which I think could be a PART of this class to make it a value. I&#39;m not thrilled paying $149 just to see what I can get if I pop over to her website and spend more money to get a guide for what she should be teaching in-depth here.</p> <p>Anyway, I hope I&#39;m not to rough, but I had VERY HIGH expectations on this class, I&#39;ve been wanting to see a new CL class with boudoir as the subject since it is so specialized. So far, I&#39;m somewhat underwhelmed, but hoping for a strong finish. </p> <p>I&#39;m happy to heap praise on really well done classes and instructors, but this so far is not it. Certainly not on the level of say Sue Bryce&#39;s 28 days, which came with multiple printed guides, each class was at least an hour or more, and was VERY detailed and easy to follow.</p> <p>Anyway, will see what the other half of this class does and update later.</p>
• <p>I think this course is great, my question was about a Facebook comment made that if a man has a bunch of likes that are female pages..., I agree and disagree in marketing they thought me to like your interest and hopefully future clients. How do I make it safe for clients and future clients? I am a Talent Agent and use to model and learning Boudior is my way of helping my models and business ,I want to also produce a magazine from my agency ,I was going to buy both franchises years ago but I want to do it myself in one company so I&#39;m learning boudior photography to help me a beginning photographer pose women something I do not know I still pose women like family photos. The courses in green screen and other photo classes are just about lighting and position not what position, as a Videographer same thing no posing skill, business video production doesn&#39;t teach it all my courses are pro-stuff and tech nothing about what poses my models do. This will help my Video Production Business and Photography Business and my Model Agency...., thanks! I need this course so my models are comfortable and my clients feel comfortable I&#39;m a shy person and I don&#39;t want me being uncomfortable make everyone feel weird!</p>
• <p>Thank you Jen great Bootcamp! I&#39;m starting my boudoir photography business and you have given me so many tools to succeed. I would have like to see more of the why in the posing as opposed to I don&#39;t like this let&#39;s change it as posing is the biggest challenge for me. I was particularly happy to see how you use your TD6 to create window light. That&#39;s what I use since my studio windows are too high when the client is laying on the bed. I really enjoyed your hidden gem video as well as the male versus female. You are an amazing teacher, thank you for your generosity! </p>