Boudoir Help.

[LittleRaePhotography]

Some girlfriends of mine want to rent a hotel room and take some Boudoir pictures for their significant others for valentines day. I only do outdoor pictures usually and want to try it out for fun. I have a canon rebel eos xs, 70-300 lens and 18-24 lens.

What kind of lighting do you suggest I rent?
Also, what size lens?

[katia]

i'd say it depends on the size of the hotel room.

i would suggest a 50mm, but if it's small you might not be able to move back far enough to frame the shot properly. perhaps a 35mm?

i'm not great with lighting, so far i just work with an SB 600 but i really would like to get another speedlite.

no idea what the flashes in the canon line are like

[sk66]

I'll supply the lighting and lenses...camera's too.
Just tell me where/when!

[Rentham]

Ed Verosky had a few ebooks that would help you out immensely in this area. Gives good pose ideas as well lighting set ups.

[LittleRaePhotography]

Originally Posted by Rentham

Ed Verosky had a few ebooks that would help you out immensely in this area. Gives good pose ideas as well lighting set ups.

Thank you so much! This looks like just what I needed.

[ChrisAdval]

Originally Posted by LittleRaePhotography

Some girlfriends of mine want to rent a hotel room and take some Boudoir pictures for their significant others for valentines day. I only do outdoor pictures usually and want to try it out for fun. I have a canon rebel eos xs, 70-300 lens and 18-24 lens.

What kind of lighting do you suggest I rent?
Also, what size lens?

assuming those lenses you have are 3.5-5.6 aperture, you could use them very well with the right lighting equipment and know how of the equipment you may or may not rent. Such as in this case I would buy a 3rd party flash unit, plus a 3rd party wireless trigger, but I don't know your budget on buying or renting so its playing the dark. If you have no budget I would rent a pocket wizard transceiver and receiver with a 580 ex II (since you are using canon gear). All you need is one I think to make some very interesting shots, or no flash and go with a very wide opening lens such as 1.2 to 1.4 fixed aperture lens. Since you have a crop sensor it would be difficult to find an L lens with a super wide angle unless you don't need or want zoom then I would go with a 14mm f/2.8 L lens that goes as low as f/2.8. Not sure where you rent lenses but I just rented a lens from Borrowlenses.com and rented a Tokina 11-16mm fisheye f/2.8 designed for my crop sensor because I'm shooting indoor environmental portraits next weekend. I haven't found any super wide angle in the canon brand lenses with a wider aperture of 2.8 yet, if I had a full frame I would use a 50mm 1.2 though.

[highlightstudio]

You could really do the lighting quite nicely with one or two flash units as long as you can get them off camera. So, wireless transmitters (unless your camera has a built in flash commander - I shoot Nikon and my D300 does). Most hotel rooms have some nice sheers on the windows, if you can get a flash behind them, even pointing straight up, it would give you a nice big softbox and provide good wrap around light.

For lenses, the faster the better. If you want to isolate your subject from the background of the room then smaller F-stops would be a big help. You could certainly do it with what you have though.