Chapter 4 – A Portrait for the Office
I know Chris' progress has been too slow for some of you. But, I as I said in the beginning, she IS shy – hence the title. These are my real stories of getting her to open up, show some skin and have some fun. I think its working, as you can SEE in this update. Not outrageous for some women, but Chris does not take pictures – at least she didn't.
Sure, I had tried to get Chris to pose for photos lots of times, but with limited success. She is not one of those girls who will just pop her top and spread her legs so her husband can snap a few, even for personal use.
This episode did not even start with me asking for sexy photos, I just wanted a new photo for the office to replace the wedding photo that had been there for years. My friend James who has a small photo studio said he would do a nice black and white portrait of Chris, nothing fancy. He mostly shoots products for catalogues, but he sometimes shoots people for his personal work, and he was more than glad to do a session with Chris.
"Don't think you'll see much cleavage" I had told him as I glanced at a couple of tasteful nudes hanging on his studio wall. "She is as shy as they come."
After Chris went for her sitting with James, I asked her how it went. "Fine," she said in a matter of fact way. "I'm going down to look at the proofs next week."
Sure enough, late the next week she came home with some nice portraits. We picked a couple for the house and one for my office. Pearl earrings and necklace, black dress – just right for the office.
I didn't think anything more about it. A few weeks later, I was driving past James' studio and decided just to stop in to say hi.
"Hey, the photos of Chris turned out great, didn't they," James called over to me as he finished up with a client.
"Yea, really nice. Replaced the old one in my office."
"How about the others," he said as his client walked out the glass door at the front of James' studio. "Bet you were surprised."
"Huh?" I replied with a confused look on my face.
"You know, the ones for home…" he said giving me a knowing look.
"I have no idea what you are talking about," I told him.
James couldn't believe it. He told me several times that I really should ask Chris about the shoot, but after some prodding he finally agreed to fill me in.
"Well," he started, "the formal stuff went really well. Chris had a glass of wine and we talked a bit. I had her bring some casual stuff to wear too, and I had some time before my next appointment, so I ask her if she wants a few casual shots.
Ok
She says, so I pour her another glass and I go through the clothes she brought. I pick out this jeans jacket and a lace top for her – a good look -- and she goes back to change while I get the lights set and pull out a white backdrop. She comes out and we start shooting. I take a few with her in the Jacket, but it's not quite what I was looking for so I ask her to take it off."
"Well, she hesitates and says that she thought we would just be doing the jacket and top together.
Naw
, I say,
lets just do some with just the lace top
. So I get the camera ready and when I look through the view finder I see why she wanted the jacket on – she has nothing on under the top…. Maybe she was just thinking it would be a sexy look with the jacket on, but now her nips are just peaking out at me through the lace and she is looking a little bit uneasy."
"You sure you don't want to ask her?" James said.
"No," I said smiling, "sounds like you had some fun, I want every detail."
"Ok then," he continued. "Well, I'm admiring her tits through the top as we shoot and I just go on shooting, saying how nice she looks and she starts to relax. When I say she has nice breasts, she gives me this look like
you are pushing it buddy, but thanks for the compliment
. So we shoot a few more."
"At this point she has on these old jeans and the lace top, but she is getting a lot more comfortable, so I ask her whether she wants to shoot with anything else on.
She asks what I have in mind. So, I look around and toss her this long bit of lace I use sometimes. She looks at it and says
what do I do with this
and I tell her to wrap it around her instead of her top. She gives me that same look again and tells me I am pushing my luck, but then she turns her back to me and pulls off her top. When she turns around she has herself all draped in this lace."
James dropped a photo in front of me, with Chris' face mostly hidden but her tits fully revealed behind a curtain of lace.
"Nice" – I said smiling and not quite believing that my shy wife had popped off her top and posed for James. James looked a little uncertain but I urged him to go on with the story.
"Well, so I comment on her nice body and we shoot a few. We banter a bit, and I run out of film. While I am reloading, she turns her back again pulls off the lace pulls on her T-shirt so I figure were are done. I start to put my stuff away while she is walking around the studio, looking at the stuff I have on the wall. She says how she really likes some of he figure stuff and I tell her
I'm always looking for models – you should think about posing, you've got a nice trim body from what I've seen and your good in front of the camera."
"
I don't think so
, she says.
What would I say if my friends waked in here and saw me up on the wall.
I told her they would be jealous, but she just smiles at me. So I tell her if she changes your mind let me know. I walk up the photo she is looking at on the wall and tell her
I'm working on some figure studies like these, just body parts and no faces, mostly hidden behind a screen
.
You'd be great.
She kind of shakes her head.
Well, just
l
et me know if you want to give it a try
, I say,
you'd be a great model
."
"Well, Chris goes on drinking her wine and looking at the stuff on the wall while I am putting stuff away. Then she drains her glass and says
Ok
."
"
Ok what?
I ask her."
"
Ok, Ill pose for something like that
, she says pointing to this nude of a woman shot from behind that I have hanging on the wall.
No faces though
, she says. So I ask her when and she says now is fine."
I could not believe it. This did not sound like my shy wife who I had worked so hard to get to show some skin.
James continued. "So, I look at my watch. I have an hour before my next sitting so I say
Ok, let me set things up
. I already have the screens set up for the series I am doing with torn paper and figured she would be perfect. So I start re-arranging the lights and stuff. When I turn around she is standing there in her long T-shirt. I see her jeans panties, bra and the rest piled on a folding chair by the wall.
Where do you want me
, she says. Well you know the response to that question -- that would be
anywhere
– that is if she wasn't your wife," James paused smiling, a little uncertain whether he should go on.
I smiled and assured James that I wanted every detail, so he went on.
"Well, I tell her to stand behind the screen I have set up
, there's a rip in the paper and I am going to shoot through that.
So she steps behind. I can still see her outline and shadow as she pulls off her T-shirt and tosses it on a chair to the side. Well, I ask her to step toward the rip in the paper."
"I thought we were going to do some stuff from the back like the one on the wall
, she says."
"No
, I tell her,
I am your front is what I need for these, but don't worry, there are no faces.
She takes a tiny step toward the rip.
