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Ben Marcum
@benmarcum.bsky.social
Award winning portrait, boudoir, & headshot photographer inspired by classic art located in Louisville KY
Friend to all dogs.
benmarcum.com & boudoirbybenmarcum.com
This is an easy way to get great light for your videos .
Lighting for your videos and selfies doesn’t have to be difficult.
A window is really all you need.
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#videolighting #lightingtips #videotutorial #goodlighting
September 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A behind the scenes look at a portrait session in my studio.
#boudoir #behindthescenes #bts #photographer #art #artist #louisville
September 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I see this all the time (pun intended).
People step in front of the camera and open their eyes as WIDE as possible.
The effect is total deer in headlights.
#posingtips #photography #selfie #art #artist
April 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The photographer you trust with your professional headshots and portraits needs to understand how to light.
Even if every thing else in the portrait is perfect, if the lighting is bad, you look bad. #photography #lighting #portraits #professionalheadshots
April 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
there are loads of variables so I can’t say, “just do”
It could be a matter of how you are posed for portraits.
Perhaps you need to be turned one way or another, or maybe chin down works better than chin up, or any host of other maybes.
Without seeing you & working with you I can’t say for certain.
April 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Does the art resonate with you?
If you were to commission portraits, would you want to see yourself this way?
At the end of the day, that is all that matters.
If the art touches your soul, that is what you should experience.
April 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
You are correct, if you would be uncomfortable having your boudoir portraits created in any circumstance that would make you uncomfortable, you should not have them created in that situation.
Your boudoir session has to be comfortable.

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#photoshoot #boudoir #boudoirphotographer
April 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
We are our own worst critics. I see it all the time when someone is looking at portraits of themselves and they pick apart all of their perceived flaws.
“My smile is crooked.”
“One eye is bigger than the other”
“That one tooth…”
“These wrinkles…”
Nobody cares.
#selfimage
April 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
When we are posing you for portraits, there is an extremely good chance it’s going to feel ridiculous.
#posing #posingtips #howtopose #photoshoot #louisville #louisvilleky #photographer
April 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
April 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM