Boudoir Photography How To

Boudoir pro Critsey Rowe has a lot of secrets when it comes to the art of intimate portraiture. Fortunately, she likes to share these special tricks with her audience of boudoir beginners on her YouTube channel.

Not that long ago, Rowe gave us three great boudoir photography poses that will give you dozens of sensuous images to please clients. And now she's letting us in on what she calls "the number one posing secret you need to know."

"It's actually not a 'secret' secret because I have talked about it before in some of my past videos," she notes. "However, if you weren't paying attention, you may have missed it so I am sharing my number one secret to posing and getting a lot of variety with your poses."

So…what's the secret? Well, we're not going to play spoiler and give anything away. You'll have to watch the boudoir tutorial below and, believe us, it's worth it.

Before Rowe shares her posing secret, she discusses what a lot of beginner boudoir photographers do wrong when it comes to posing.

"I'm going to start off with talking about the number one mistake that I see a lot of people making and then I will talk about how you can fix this and how you can get a lot of variety," she says. "The number one mistake I see a lot of people making is that they will put their client or model in a pose and then they typically will shoot from one direction or with just one type of light."

Watch below to see how Rowe suggests you break out of this rut of shooting every boudoir photo only "one way" and how to create a variety of eye-catching looks though simple posing techniques. Then go visit her channel to hear all of her expert advice on boudoir.