
"I guess it wasn't so private after all." The client points to specific wording in the offer, which describes the photo shoot as private. There is no mention of the added $250 fee for sole copyrights. The ad includes a fine print section, which details an expiration date, cancellation terms and a list of the communities where Jennings will travel. She did not want to talk on camera but again pointed to that initialed checklist, which Jennings claims they went over.Īs for the Groupon offer, a couple of things stood out. Then, in those emails, Jennings offered the woman a new contract with sole copyrights for an extra $250, "cash only.” Jennings said she would "take down the images from Facebook," but that they would "still be used on her photography site. In the emails, Jennings also wrote that she was "nice enough to remove all of the images that showed (the client's) face," but reiterated, "I do not have to do this." "I just quickly initialed and signed it so we could get started." "I was standing in my underwear, so I was feeling uncomfortable, awkward," the woman said. The client claims Jennings described the paper as a copyright release that would allow her to print Jennings' pictures herself and says Jennings gave it to her only minutes before the photo shoot started. In multiple back and forth emails that followed, Jennings reminded her client that she initialed a contract checklist which clearly states the images could be "used as marketing tools in print, on her website or through other media outlets." But the next day, some of the pictures remained. So, she called Jennings, who she says agreed to remove the pictures. "But, to me, that's me in my panties and bra, in my bedroom, a specific picture for my husband," she said. The photos were among dozens of pictures of other women in lingerie. Her husband loved the gift, until he went online, looked up the photographer, Tabitha Jennings, and saw his wife's pictures on Jennings' Facebook page. "I wasn't going to some studio and undressing" she said, not wanting to be identified. She purchased a deal from Groupon for $65. It was an anniversary gift for her deployed husband. Couples even do it.Ī Fayetteville-area mother paid for a private boudoir photo shoot at her home.

Many women are posing for the sometimes racy photos as a gift for their husbands or significant other. Boudoir photography shoots are a hot trend right now.
