All Things Boudoir

Ordered a deal off of Groupon, for an excellent price – 35 $ for a 90 minute photo shoot. I scheduled my shoot in time to surprise my partner with a photo book of my photos. Arrived at the Sorella hotel on the plaza in KC to work with Zambi. I was actually told by text that I would be photographed by someone else, and then without warning, on the day of the shoot, I was texted by Zambi instead. The hotel itself was quite swanky and modern – beautiful furniture on the inside. The photo shoot went well and I was given many outfit changes, however, towards the end, my photographer ran out of ideas and had to open up previous shoots to get more inspiration. I scheduled my reveal for two weeks later. The app that they use does not download on a regular PC, so I was forced to used my iPad mini to view photographs. The app that is used essentially gives my screen the opportunity to be connected to the other individual’s screen – shared screen, I should say. They had about 200 photographs to choose from, and honestly… I did not completely love any, except for one photo. However, you can’t make a photo book with just one photo, so I had to choose ones that I didn’t love. They do not sell photos individually. The smallest package was 4 photos for $ 200. I ended up going into shutter book to make my own black book for $ 15.00 to save costs. When I purchased my photos, they were immediately sent to me electronically. and I really was not pleased. The way they had photoshopped the images made me look extremely soft, almost puffy. The typical muscular lines that I normally see in my body, which I wanted to show off, were not present in the photos. In addition, in one of the photos, the hotel room phone was shown in the corner. I ended up still gifting my book to my partner, but it was not a book that I was too impressed by. Unfortunately, my partner also noticed these flaws and commented, sweetly, that the model in the photo was the only thing that made the photographs stand out.

After my first scheduling fiasco with All Things Boudoir, I was contacted by Tamara, the owner. Never did figure out what happened with the photographer, she told a radically different story from what I experienced, but whatever. I agreed to reschedule with a different photographer (Zambi.)
On the day of the shoot, I had a blast working with Zambi. She was fun, kept things relaxed, and was quite professional. She clearly had a list of set poses that she was putting me through, but was willing to deviate or improvise a bit when I had a special request. (We improvised a light bondage scene with the telephone cord, that kind of thing.)
I wasn’t very happy with the reveal, though. All Things Boudoir will not let you review the proofs on your own, presumably because they fear that their work will be screen-​capped or lifted without paying them for it. Instead, you have to schedule a «reveal appointment» with them, where they walk you through all the proofs on a JoinMe presentation, and you have to decide RIGHT THEN AND THERE if you want it. This is pretty lame, because who doesn’t want to mull it over for a while, maybe see which images grow on you? I ended up picking the bare minimum number of images. I will never be able to see the rest of them again unless I schedule another appointment, for another fee. This is just cheesy. (Every other photographer in the world will give you a link to a web album with heavily watermarked proofs, or something, so you can peruse them at your leisure & choose your images, and you always end up buying a couple more than you intended because you like them so much.)
Can’t recommend, because of the weird reveal system.

I had Zambi for a photographer at a plaza hotel. Thought I would be nervous and awkward but had a great time. She made me feel at ease, asked what kind of music I preferred and we planned out the change of outfits. She had several poses and asked for my input. We were lucky to have some sunlight streaming in, when you schedule a time this is a good tip… I had not planned this part but was a lovely surprise and lent to mood lighting :)
Before the shoot I had several reminders as well as tips for preparation sent via email and text. After the shoot I picked my images online. The pics were beautiful and she really had an eye to capture some sensual shots. Later I found a random string hanging in one pic and via email they fixed the image for me over the weekend. This was way beyond my expectations.
I teased my husband with two before xmas. The look on his face was worth it all.