DARE TO BARE

Two friends begged me to show her some of my albums, the ones involving some erotic photography shots. They had been thinking about doing it for the longest time - primarily for their significant others but methinks its just something many women want to do at some point in their life - to capture their beauty before the ticks of time carves out other ideas.

By erotic photography, I'm not talking so much about the porn type poses but the naked-type and tasteful shots that you could frame up and hang in your living room. Well, okay maybe not, but you get the idea.

So anyway, I finally agreed to show some of the shots to give them some ideas. Several were done at a photo studio which I personally think were not too bad. However, the ones that both liked most, were interestingly taken by my newswire-correspondent-photojournalist hubby.

He had improvised on lighting but the most telling thing was that we was able to highlight the best of my attributes and facial expressions and mask the parts of me which were not too flattering. On hindsight, it made perfect sense because he knows me the best and is able to capture the moods and features that capture the real me. Of course it helped that I was also comfortable with him and able to fully - for lack of a better word - fuck with the camera lens.

So my two friends then asked if he would consider taking shots of them. I haven't asked him yet but duh, duh and duh! Which guy in their right mind would turn down taking photos of two voluptuous women?

It's not like he has not done it before. Credit to him, he has always been really professional about it, even though I can see that at times, he spots a bulge in his pants - and no, he doesn't keep an extra lens in there. The women feel more comfortable with me around so I sit and watch the show and sometimes help with their posing.

The thing about having so many sexy and horny girlfriends is that the person who tends to benefit most, besides a bisexual woman like myself, is the significant other! Damn the lucky bastard!

It's all clean fun and no one has regretted their decision to do so. I'll let you know how that turns out.

Anyway, the message I'm trying to get through is that if you are really thinking of taking a series of erotic shots, do it with someone you trust because I've also heard how many photographers use their photos without permission for their portfolios or websites. Many others don't know how to get you to loosen up (there has to be some chemistry).

If you get someone to take a few trial shots to see how you look naked in a photo, perhaps you will know more about what you want to hide and what you feel comfortable flaunting. Of course, it all else fails, there is always PhotoShop to turn to - a woman's best friend.

Missus Singapore out!