The experience
Enjoy your turn in front of the camera.
Create boudoir or fine-art bodyscape images that let you enjoy your beauty, express your sexy side or celebrate the two of you.
Schedule a consultationYou might already have an outfit you're excited to wear or a few images you keep coming back to. Or you might be wondering how it would feel to see yourself photographed this way. We'll help you get ready, create your own looks and choose the images you want to enjoy afterward.
The experience below is shared across women's, men's, couples, bridal and bodyscape sessions, with a few differences in preparation. It starts with a phone conversation and continues through seeing your images and receiving the artwork you choose.
Tell us what appeals to you.
We'll call you at the consultation time you choose. You'll usually speak with Mike. The conversation normally takes 15–20 minutes. You can talk about a look you like, something you'd enjoy celebrating or the questions you want answered before deciding.
We'll explain preparation, the studio visit, the session fee and what to expect from the separate image purchase. You'll hear the collection starting price and have a chance to discuss spending and payment options before booking.
If you're interested in a couples session, we'd like to speak with both of you so we can hear from each person. We can still discuss and book the session if only one of you can join the call.
If you decide to go ahead, we'll find an available photography date and take the session payment to reserve it. Scheduling the consultation requires no payment.
If you need an album or other artwork for a wedding, anniversary or gift, tell us when you need it in your hands, including any travel beforehand. We'll check the timing with you before you book.
Have some fun choosing what to bring.
After booking, you'll receive preparation emails covering clothing, packing, hair and skin preparation, and what happens on the day. You can also ask us for help by text when you're deciding between outfits or wondering how something will photograph.
For boudoir, bring clothing and personal accessories you want to see in your images. Lingerie, underwear, a robe or a favorite shirt can each suggest a look. Your choices give us something to work with when we review your wardrobe at the studio.
Bridal details can be part of that selection, alongside other looks you love. For couples, we'll help you think about clothing that works together while leaving each person room for their own preferences.
Men receive their own preparation guidance. Dedicated bodyscape sessions have separate guidance too, suited to working with light, shape and coverage. We'll explain what to bring for the session you've chosen.
Let us know ahead of time about any movement or position that's difficult for you. That helps us plan your posing. You can arrive without having practiced poses; we'll direct you in the studio.
We'll guide you every step of the way
Your photography takes place at our Pearland studio. We'll look through what you've brought, match outfits with the studio sets and plan the order of your looks. If you're having makeup done, wardrobe review can happen as the artist finishes.
Makeup and hair
Professional makeup is included for women in women's, bridal and bodyscape sessions. You can discuss the look you prefer, from natural to full glam. False lashes are included, and you can choose to skip them.
For couples, makeup is generally provided for women taking part. Men who would like makeup should tell us in advance so we can arrange an artist; there's no additional charge. That advance-request arrangement also applies to individual men's boudoir and bodyscape sessions.
Hair styling isn't provided. Arrive with your hair ready for photography and, if you're having makeup applied, a clean face. We'll confirm your arrival time around those arrangements.
Creating the images
Mike is the principal photographer and directs the session. He'll guide your body position and show you what to do with your hands and where to look. He'll adjust the lighting and pose as you work. Angi also takes photographs. She normally co-directs, demonstrates poses when helpful and takes care of clothing and the little details between looks.
We'll keep guiding you through outfit changes and poses, and coaching your expressions throughout the shoot. In couples sessions, both people receive direction. In bodyscape, small changes in position let us explore how the light falls across your body. We'll create a variety of compositions, including images with your face and closer studies of shape and detail.
You'll also see unretouched camera previews during photography. They give you an early look at what we're creating together.
Photography usually takes about 2–2½ hours. Women's and bridal visits take approximately 3–3½ hours overall, including makeup. For men's, couples and bodyscape sessions, we'll explain the total visit time around your makeup arrangements.
Before you leave, we'll schedule your ordering appointment so you know when you'll see your images.
You have a say in the images we create.
Tell us which looks you'd enjoy trying, how a pose feels and when you'd like to adjust something. We'll work around physical limitations and keep the photography within the coverage you choose.
Clothing, underwear or lingerie, draping, implied nudity and nude images offer different possibilities across the session types. Nudity is optional. In couples sessions, each partner chooses their own coverage; you can have different preferences and still create images together.
Your images can remain entirely private. Public sharing requires your signed permission, and you can specify restrictions on particular images or types of images. For couples, both partners must approve the permission choices and restrictions and sign the shared release. Sharing choices don't change the current session price.
The images you see at ordering are fully retouched.
After the session, Mike and Angi select the strongest images for viewing and send them to a professional retoucher.
Retouching includes skin cleanup, flyaway hair, clothing indentations and creases caused by posing. Scars and stretch marks are also addressed unless you tell us you'd like to retain them. Let us know about a meaningful mark or detail you want to keep.
We avoid major body reshaping because your images should still look like you. We also retain signs of age rather than completely erasing them. The lighting, posing and styling help create the look, with retouching finishing the images for you to see.
Take a look. Then choose what you love.
About 10 days to two weeks after the shoot, we'll meet for a private ordering appointment, usually at the studio. Allow up to 90 minutes. This is when you see your fully retouched images and decide what you'd like to purchase.
We prefer to meet at the studio so you can see and feel the products as we talk. If you're coming from outside the Houston metro area, an online ordering session is available. Let us know at your shoot so we can show you the products then.
We begin with a slideshow set to music. You can watch the whole selection first, without making decisions as each image appears. Then we'll go back through it together and help you narrow your favorites.
Once you've chosen the images you want, we'll explain the collections and other purchase options. You can consider how many images you'd like in an album, whether there's a favorite you'd enjoy displaying and which choices fit your spending plans.
Your session and image purchase
Current session fee: $199, normally $399
Album collections start at $1,599
These prices are before tax. Images and products are purchased separately from the session fee. You choose your purchase after seeing your images, with no required product purchase. Payment plans are available, and we'll finalize your arrangements at ordering.
Every collection centers on an album. Wall art, tabletop artwork and digital choices give you other ways to enjoy selected images. Tabletop artwork is a small photo display for your dresser, shelf or bedside table. Digital-only purchases are also available, with a minimum of 10 images.
Explore artwork and pricingSee your favorites come together.
If you choose an album, we'll design it around your selected images and send you a proof, normally within a couple of business days after ordering. You'll review the design and approve it before production.
Your album brings together the images you love of yourself, your body as art or the attraction you share as a couple. Turn the pages when you want to enjoy seeing yourself that way again. You can keep it for yourself, enjoy it with a partner or give your own images as a personal gift.
Studio album example
Approval, payment and production
Products normally arrive about a month after proof approval and the applicable payment requirements are met. Time spent reviewing the design, any revisions and your payment arrangements can affect the date.
An in-house payment plan must be paid in full before products are ordered. Third-party financing is subject to the provider's approval and terms; if approved, your order can proceed while you make repayments. Album proof approval is still required.
We'll let you know when your finished products are ready to collect at the studio. Shipping is available for clients outside the Houston metro area.
If you need your artwork by a particular date, tell us before booking, including any travel beforehand. We'll work backward from that date through the shared session, ordering, approval and production schedule, and discuss what's possible with current availability.
Let's make plans for your turn.
If you've been picturing yourself in the studio, bring that curiosity to our conversation. We can talk about the images you'd enjoy creating, how to get ready and what you'd like to own afterward.
Choose a consultation time and we'll call you. You'll have a chance to ask your questions and decide whether you'd like to book a session.
Schedule a consultationA phone conversation, usually 15–20 minutes. Your photography date and session payment are arranged during the call if you decide to book.