How I became a boudoir photographer.
Unbelievably, it started with abandoned buildings.
Story time:
I had no idea what I wanted to do in college, so I declared an Exploratory major my freshman year. I had always loved bopping around taking photos of random objects, things, and people in high school and even took a film class to learn how to shoot and develop my own film from start to finish.
In college, my dad and I decided to split the cost of a nice camera (a Nikon D5200, to be specific) so we could both use it for nice pictures. Once that camera was in my hands, my dad never had the chance to use it.
I started walking around the little towns of Newton Falls and Braceville, photographing whatever I saw. I saw a LOT of abandoned buildings, so I photographed them. I explored them when I could. I still have some of those pictures.
Then I decided I wanted to be a book editor. I loved reading, so it made sense. Thanks to a terrifically uninformed counselor, I ended up in the Journalism department. When I saw a new advisor, she asked if I had any specific interests and I said “Photography”. I thought it was the career that would let me do it all. Read, write, photograph. But I soon learned I didn’t like being told HOW to photograph.
During college, I booked my first boudoir experience with a couple in Youngstown. Hook, line, sinker, I was addicted. I have always struggled with my self image as a mid-size woman and I. Felt. Beautiful. Up to this point, I’d been trying (and failing) at being a wedding, couples, family, maternity, senior, pet photographer. Two months later, I dropped all of that and started focusing on boudoir.
I became ADDICTED to the high of other women falling in love with themselves in the photographs I’d taken.
That was January 2019, and here I am YEARS later, thriving in ways that I never knew was possible, no longer working a job that caused burnout or significant stress. I never knew it was possible to be a full-time boudoir photographer and if you’d told me ten years ago that that’s what I’d be, I’d have laughed.
Now, I just can’t image doing anything else.
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