Beautiful Hungarian woman, but... (Preview)

So now I have photographed two young Hungarian women in Budapest, in addition to my beautiful Priscilla.

It wasn't easy to find them. Of the countless people I contacted, only a few responded at all, and I finally came to an agreement with four of them. Of these four, one suddenly went silent (“ghosting” is the word for the modern fashion of simply saying nothing instead of a short message when you lose interest), while the second asked for new conditions the day before the agreed session (shots only without face or with a mask, which I didn't accept) and then, also without canceling, simply didn't show up for the appointment.

Well then, Shady and Lilith came. And today I'm showing you the first part of the shoot with Shady.

Shady is a Hungarian ballet dancer, a really pretty young woman with a beautiful body - unfortunately completely shaved, which is one of the reasons why we only had one, albeit very long, photo session. Shady earns her living as a model and therefore already has some experience of showing herself in front of the camera.

I had seen (scantily dressed) photos of her moving around in the ballet and was naturally full of hope that this mobility would be expressed in very erotic photos, as was actually agreed. But when I asked her to pose like this during the session, she declined with a smiling “no, no”...

Shady was very professional during the session, very friendly, personable and pleasant, but she didn't let herself go at any moment... Just after the greeting she undressed and showed me some lingerie (the set you see in these photos) that she had brought with her.

It's one of the reasons why I don't like working with so-called professional models. In contrast to the really professional top models, they hardly ever respond to the wishes and goals of a photographer, but have their already ingrained poses, which they consider beautiful, and simply play them off.

You can tell by the fact that the model turns in on herself and concentrates only on herself and her appearance - if you look at her facial expression and the direction of her gaze in the photos in today's series, you can clearly see this. There is no interaction with the photographer (and I don't mean anything sexual!).

Since the model is completely focused on her own ideas of how she wants to show herself, she moves in the way she thinks is the most advantageous for her. She shows and uses (a large part of) her body like a tool, which she tries to show from its best side from her point of view. Instructions from the photographer that go beyond the basics (stand there, look over the railing, sit there...) are ignored, probably not even really noticed or understood.

At the same time, she is focused on maintaining her “proper, artistic” image and making sure that she does not reveal anything too intimate. This leads to the poses in most of the pictures with strictly crossed legs, as can often be seen in this series. Only in later shots (which I will post at a later date for the power level patrons) did she allow me some more risqué looks, but not really risqué either.

You could say this type of model gives the surface of her body, but nothing of her personality or even soul.

Nevertheless, it's all nice to look at because, apart from the bald patch between her legs, Shady has a really beautiful body. I also know that her face is really pretty when the camera isn't pointed at it and she doesn't go into “model mode”. It's a shame that she rarely showed it to me in the photos and only to a limited extent.

Na ked women are something beautiful, especially when they are beautiful :-) And in this respect I have quite a lot of beautiful nude photos of Shady. But in my photography I'm in more interested than just the beautiful shapes. I want to discover the person's own eroticism, I want them to let themselves go, sometimes forget that it's a photo session, and enjoy showing themselves freely and, to put it this way, uninhibitedly wild. I want them to show me who they are, not who they want to pretend.

Of course, I don't succeed with all models, and with the semi-professional ones, for the reasons I mentioned, I never really succeed. The only model who was truly professional through and through and was still (or precisely because of this) able to give herself completely into the desired situation was Kyotocat, of whom there are many pictures in the archive that confirm this.

Now enough of the chatter. The other model (who I have more retouching to do, so it will be a while before she appears here) was also very experienced, by the way, but in some ways the radical opposite of Shady. You will see it, also in extraordinary videos...

Well, here's a preview...