Today’s Daly City boudoir photo shoot features Miss A, who did her session as a surprise for her boyfriend. Like most people I photograph, this photo shoot wasn’t just a gift for him, it was also a gift for herself so she could feel beautiful, and hopefully more confident.
Miss A is my favorite kind of client to come see me. She had recently made a monumental life change loosing 100 lbs before her photo shoot. I love it when women make healthy lifestyle changes and use their photo shoot as a celebration for goals achieved!
Boudoir Photos
These are the images we captured from her Daly City boudoir photo shoot.





Her Before & After
In my experience most of us don’t know what we actually look like because we typically only see ourselves naked in front of the bathroom mirror under shitty light and bad angles. This less than ideal image of ourselves is what we think of when referring to our residual self-image. In other words, we tend to have a poorer self image when we regularly see ourselves in less than ideal circumstances.
Getting to see yourself under great lighting and from good angles is a reset in how you perceive yourself. Even if you haven’t made profound physical changes to your body like Miss A, just seeing yourself with good light and at good angles can dramatically change the way you see yourself. I can’t even imagine how profound it must have been for her to see herself and have to recalibrate her brain for her new body!
Location Details for This Session

We started her Daly City boudoir photo shoot in her home with plans to end the session at sunset on the beach near her house. While fancy locations are cool, I also very much love photographing women in their homes.
Most of my clients like the familiarity of doing a session in their own space, especially if they’re nervous about their session. I also really love the challenge of trying to create amazing photos in a space I’ve never seen before.
In the case of Miss A, she had fairly recently moved into her boyfriend’s house, and he had a fantastic area in the dining room with a bank of windows and an amazing view of the ocean. As a bonus, the windows were also facing the sun, providing some fantastic strong light opportunities.
Perhaps my favorite thing about this space was the props he had lined up along the window. He is a firefighter and is also very into motorcycles. The windows were lined with motorcycle engines and firefighting paraphernalia. Ummm, yes please!
We ended her session on the beach at sunset like we’d planned. For these beach boudoir photos she wore a nightgown from before her weight loss. Although she was totally swimming in it, the symbolism for how far she’d come felt like a perfect note to end her session on.
When she saw her images, Miss A was in awe of how powerful and confident she looked. After seeing herself posed into beautiful light, I could see that her mindset had totally shifted.
And her boyfriend couldn’t get enough of them either. Her silhouette shot in the nightgown at sunset hangs in his room. He loved every image, but more than that, he loved seeing how much she was embracing and celebrating her transformation.
This session wasn’t just a gift for him, it was clearly also a profound gift for her self confidence.
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I am a boudoir photographer located in Sonoma, California, with over 10 years of experience and 500+ sessions captured. Author of posing women for boudoir photos. View my boudoir photos and read clients testimonials to see how my work has helped these women change the way they see themselves.





















