The Timeless Boudoir Retreat
With Tamara Paskey-Alexander & Cate Scaglione
A 2 Day Workshop, Jan 31st & Feb 1st, 2025 in Dallas, Texas
With a new year comes new opportunities. 2025 is YOUR YEAR to elevate your boudoir business and meet your creative and business goals. Join Tamara and Cate, two consistently successful boudoir studio owners as they guide you through the specific elements and skills that have helped them run beautifully sustainable, & creatively fulfilling boudoir businesses for over 15 years. Explore new creative approaches and renovate your business mindset, focusing on a luxury-centered, genuine-to-you business model with timeless fine-art aesthetics.
You’ll not only level up your earning potential by building an unforgettable client experience, but also build a portfolio full of client-magnetizing images that will stand the test of time.
Kickoff your 2025 by joining us for this unique retreat of vintage vixens, siren starlets, and classical muses that will ignite your creative soul. Best of all, it will be held in North Texas 2 days before the Imaging USA conference so you can enjoy it all!
Turn your clients into works of art
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A Fine Art Approach
Elevate your skillset with elegant posing, communication, customer service, and products. Introducing timeless imagery to your repertoire will help you attract your dream clients.
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Stay True to Your Artistic Souls
Cate & Tamara are open books when it comes to their professional journeys. They will discuss their experiences having careers in this creative field, burnout, and how to stay true to yourself while earning a living.
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Hands-On & Memorable
The classes will help things click in a way you haven’t expected. Posing techniques are taught in detail, along with the emotionally charged words you need to direct your clients successfully
The Details
Dates: Friday, January 31st & Saturday, February 1st Right before Imaging USA begins!
Where: Tamara’s 4500 square foot boudoir studio near downtown Dallas, TX (photos below)
Cost: $1600 Capped at 16 attendees
Meals: A light breakfast, and catered lunch each day
Models: 4 Professional models provided, including a fine art model from Paris, and a burlesque dancer, with full vintage styling featuring lingerie by Thistle & Spire.
Type of Workshop: Seated classes with business, mindset, and customer service topics. Hands-on classes photographing models while learning new posing and lighting techniques.
Bonuses: Cate’s Boudoir Posing cards (value of $200) and special discounts for attendees from Geekoto Lighting, Intuition Backgrounds, Animoto, and our respective album companies.
The Classes
Cate’s Classes:
The Client Experience: Providing your clients with a luxury service start to finish
In-Person Sales & Psychology: How the client experience & communication nuances can help you achieve multi-thousand dollar sales & return clients
The Art of Boudoir Details: How to photograph the finer details to create a full gallery and sell wall art that your clients will cherish.
Gorgeous Gatsby: Stylized in 20’s flapper style with pastel asethetics, using a mix of modern and vintage posing
Tamara’s Classes:
Balancing Burnout & Business: How to recognize patterns within yourself and how to combat burnout in healthy ways
A Niche Within a Niche: Finding your superpower and standing out as a unique artist will help you attract your dream clients
The Luxury Studio: Designing your studio to attract the right clients, and building a wardrobe closet
Fine Art Posing: Incorporating posing from historic art, and understanding movement for impactful, timeless imagery. Nudes & flowing fabrics with a professional fine art model!
Burlesque Beauty: Incorporating burlesque/pinup styling & movement to pull sultry attitude out of your clients
Both days will have a combination of seated learning and hands-on photography, from 9:30am to 5:30pm.
Tamara Paskey-Alexander’s Gallery
Cate Scaglione’s Gallery
Tamara’s Studio
4500 square feet designed just for boudoir photography. Learn in the sets, lingerie closet, and ordering room where Tamara operates her business. Click HERE for a video studio walk-through
Meet Cate & Tamara
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Cate Scaglione
Life as Fine Art is not only Cate’s business name, but true to her aesthetic and photographic style. Timeless beauty is something every single one her clients knows they will get out of their experience with her. She has taught at countless conferences, retreats, and workshops throughout her career, such as WPPI and AIBP. Her unique background in marketing gives her an edge in understanding the psychological side of owning a boudoir business.
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Tamara Paskey-Alexander
Whether it’s in a studio or on an iceberg, Tamara is passionate about capturing women’s power and unique beauty in a timeless way. She has owned a brick & mortar boudoir studio for almost 15 years, and has gone into fine art nudes in nature within the last 5 years. She has has photographed thousands of women, hired full time staff, moved studios to new states, and gone through all the ups and downs we experience as creative business owners. She can’t wait to share her burnout story with you, and how she now stays true to herself in her unique niche.
Book your spot now.
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F.A.Q.
Q: Can I share a room with my spouse or best friend? A: Yes! We will put you in a queen or king private room for $1900 each. Please email directly to hello@tamarapaskeyeducation.com to make this request.
Q: How long of a drive is Braun Manor from The Gaylord Texan? A: It is approximately an Hour & 15 minute drive.
Q: Can I bring my spouse who is a non-photographer? A: No, only paid attendees may come to the manor
Q: Can I come if I am an educator myself? A: Yes! you are welcome. We do have a noncompete & non-disclosure agreement with the course material though.
Q: Do you have payment options? A: No, in this case, we recommending putting the cost on a credit card with points!
Q: Is there a hotel nearby if I choose to be a “drive-in” attendee? A: There is a Hilton Garden Inn in Denison within 13 minutes of Braun Manor
Q: What is the cancellation policy? A: Retreat tickets are non-refundable. But in the case of emergency, your ticket may be transferred to a new person with the permission of Tamara & Cate
Q: What happens if it snows? A: We recommend getting travel insurance from CHUBB. The retreat will happen whether it snows or not. If we must cancel in the event of natural disaster, we will refund you in full.
The Fine Print
We are curating a high quality, accepting retreat. Booking online does not signify your confirmation. If we deem you to be the wrong fit for the retreat, we will refund you and notify you of this decision. Photography educators must disclose that they are educators prior to booking via hello@tamarapaskeyeducation.com. The material, content learned, and imagery taken at the retreat are not permitted to be used in your own educational materials. Images taken at the retreat may not be entered in competitions. However, images may be used on your client facing photography business’s portfolio and social media. Ticket refunds will not be given in any instance besides the retreat being canceled in full. Please purchase travel insurance. This retreat will feature boudoir and fine art nude imagery, as well as have wine at dinner, which is why our minimum age is 21 years old. By attending this retreat, you must have a solid understanding of manual camera settings in all lighting situations, and well as have worked with women in portrait settings previously.
Read the full terms & conditions HERE