Photographer's Model (closed for pipper and JT)

[pipper]

Laurie spent most of the next morning, finishing off her laundry, dusting and tidying up the house for when her parents would be home.

During a brief break, she sent a text Susan, asking her if Phil could photograph their act, and what time would be best to go and see them.

There was no immediate reply, so Laurie checked on Oscar to see if he had managed to eat the ‘meaty’ arm without any problems. Seeing that he appeared to be okay, Laurie let him out of the enclosure for a ten minute ‘slither’.

It was during this time she received Sue’s reply. Laurie quickly sent a text to Phil. ‘You can take photos of their act. We need to be there at about 2, so 1:30 from here.’

 

[JayTee69gmx]

Phil checked his watch, 11:45. Just enough time. He texted back, 'See you at 1:30', and grabbed his photo gear and his gym bag. Tossed both in the car, and out his drive to the gym. Noticed Parker's drapes moving as he left.

At the gym he signed in, the receptionist handed him a locker key and smiled, "Havnt seen you for a bit, Phil." He smiled back at her, "Been busy." and off to the change room. Shorts and a white tee and runners he warmed up with some stretches, then up to the jogging track for a few laps. Upped the intensity until he started to sweat, then held for a couple more laps before stretching cool downs. Then to the weight machines, quads, delts, pecs and long rowing. Finally a few more stretches at the bar. Several times a good looking woman caught his eye and smiled, he smiled back, but felt nothing, nothing at all. He scanned the room noticing that several of the women were, by normal standards quite attractive. But he felt nothing, just remembered Laurie smiling at him when he kissed her forehead.

In the shower, for a moment he started to remember his shower the night before, with a predictable reaction. He slammed the temperature lever to full cold, effectively quelling his response. Shivering he toweled off, and got dressed, feeling envigorated and refreshed. Driving back home, checked his watch and hurried a bit, pulling into his drive at exactly 1:30.
Texted her the familiar refrain, 'Ready when you are.' And he was, ready.

 

[pipper]

After a light lunch, Laurie took a shower. As she covered her body in lather, she wondered what her parents would have done, if they found out that she posed for a strip shoot while Phil just sat there, watching her as she disrobed right in front of him. It was obvious she had turned him on, and…got the attention of a certain reptile!

Once she had dried herself, Laurie wondered what to wear. Finally she decided upon a white short-sleeved blouse, calf length tartan skirt, and sandals.

At 1:30 she spotted Phil pulling into his driveway. She ran to his car. “Okay, let’s get going!”

 

[JayTee69gmx]

Phil almost leaned over and kissed her cheek when she got in the car, but checked up, mindful of the neighbors.

"You look beautiful, as always. Last night was, very special."

"Laurie I finished up a portfolio for you and one for me to send to those agents, see if we can get some freelance work. That fashion shoot went so well, I think we could have a lot of fun doing it. They are on my laptop at home, maybe after I photograph your pals, we could go back and review them so I can send them off?"

He followed her directions to where they were to meet her pals who were going to 'saw a woman' in two.

 

[pipper]

Laurie blushed at Phil’s remark of her ‘act’ the night before. “At least I didn’t have to go into Oscar, as Bella did,” she teasingly remarked.

Then Phil mentioned the portfolio. “Oh, that would be lovely. Just hope we’re not too long at Keith's.”

Then she giggled. “I know how their trick works, or at least I think I do. They use fake legs, so that when Susan goes in the box, she pushes the fake ones out, while hers goes into a concealed part of the box.”

When they arrived Keith met them at the door. “Glad you could come!”

 

[JayTee69gmx]

Phil shook Keith's hand, "Glad to meet you Keith. Laurie tells me you are going to saw your assistant in half? That's going to be fun to photograph. I brought my laptop so I can leave you guys copies. Looking forward to it."

Phil followed Keith and Laurie inside, anxious to practice his skills, photograph the scene in way that emphasized the illusion.

 

[pipper]

“So, Keith, where’s Susan? Laurie asked.

“She’s putting her leotard on.”

Laurie smiled. “Oh, I’m looking forward to this act of yours. You’re not really going to saw her half, are you? It’s just an illusion, after all.”

Keith laughed. “Oh, Laurie, believe it or not I am going to slice her into two, and you’re going to help me to do just that, while Phil takes photos of us. In fact if I prove it, which I will, you will be next to feel the blade slice through you!”

Then at that moment Susan appeared in a dark blue leotard with matching high-heels. “And what are you two up to?”

Keith smirked. “I was telling Laurie here, that if I can prove to her that I can saw you in half, she should be next.”

“Oh really, I would like to see that!” exclaimed Sue. “What about you Phil, would you like to see your model in two?”

 

[JayTee69gmx]

"Any time I get a chance to photograph Laurie, its a good day."

They seemed a very nice couple. Sue was a true brunette, quite pretty and almost as shapely as Laurie. In Phil's eyes Laurie was perfect, and her body was simply part of that perfection.

"But you have to promise to put her back together again. As good as new."

They laughed easily as Keith led them to the room he had set up for the performance. Two boxes, brightly colored sat on low tables, the table legs had casters. Each box was open showing only the holes for head, torso and legs. In the style of traditional magic acts he invited Laurie and Phil to examine the boxes. They looked just like normal wood boxes.

Phil got his camera out and made a few test shots to check the lighting. Got Keith and Sue to stand together with the boxes, portrait of the magician and his assistant.

 

[pipper]

Laurie took a very detailed look at one of the boxes. The outside was of the same colour as Sue’s leotard. Was that a coincident or planned? The other box was deep red. Maybe Susan had another leotard in that colour.

The box Laurie was looking at had four decent sized oblong cut-outs in it. Each half of the box had one on each side. Then she saw what appeared to be two stocks, one for the neck; the other for the ankles, lying on the frame underneath along with a pair of ‘divider’ blades, but no saw!

The bottom of the box had black padding, which extended past the ends of the box, no doubt so that Sue could rest her head and feet on.

Despite continued efforts to see where Susan’s legs could be hidden, Laurie turned up a blank.

When Phil had finished taking photos of Keith and Sue, Laurie said, “Maybe you should put up a web site so you could post images of Sue being sawn in half, for a fee of course.”

 

[JayTee69gmx]

While Laurie was intently inspecting the boxes, Phil caught a couple of close ups of the puzzled expression on her face, with his long zoom. Then quickly switched back to the normal lens. The lighting was less than perfect, but he had not seen that expression before.

Done with the shots of Keith and Sue, Laurie said something about making a website for them. He frowned a bit, not sure why she said that, then just smiled. "Well we can certainly get some good photos today. He busiest himself setting up a tripod to mount the camera on, and talked with Keith to determine where the 'observer' camera should be positioned. Tested his remote to be sure the shutter was releasing when he pressed it. And noticed how much he enjoyed just being with Laurie.

 

[pipper]

Keith looked at Laurie. “Now, that’s a good idea! I could whip one up, myself.”

Susan had told her, that Keith had taken a course in website design, so hence Laurie’s suggestion.

“Why don’t we do both images and video sets,” responded Sue. “But we will need another model to give the sets a bit of a variety…”

“…And different contraptions to put you and…” Keith added.

Then they both looked at Laurie with smirks on their faces. “Oh no, you can’t be serious? I have Oscar to look after.” It was a feeble attempt of an excuse.

Sue just stared at her with her hands on her hips. “If you think, young lady, we’re going to buy that, you’re greatly mistaken! Besides Phil could earn some cash by taking the videos and images for us, so wouldn’t it be nice if his model was part of the action?”

Keith turned around. “The offer’s yours Phil.”

 

[JayTee69gmx]

"Done."

Getting paid to take videos and photos of Laurie? 'Now that's a win win!' thought Phil. The way Laurie was dressed really wasn't typical magician's assistant. But it looked like Sue would have an answer for that too.

Phil changed the setup of the tripod camera to video, and got his second body out fitted with a medium range zoom, and took a few test shots to check the settings.

"Keith, let me take a couple of close ups of the boxes to go with the overall shots. The way I like to work is to give you two a bunch of proofs after the session, you choose the ones you want and I will prepare final versions. Takes some time to get the final editing done, and its more efficient to just do the ones you want. I'm fussy about quality so the rough proofs all have a proof stamp across them, only because I don't want the roughs circulated. But if there is anything special you want, just ask."

'Interesting couple' Phil thought, happy that Laurie had introduced them.

 

[pipper]

“Well, we need to introduce the two fine assistants, who are willing to be sliced into parts, to the visitors to the site. So how about after you’ve done with the boxes you can take some of Sue in front of the blue box?” Keith suggested to Phil. “We'll do the same with Laurie after she has changed.”

Laurie silently cursed herself, for bringing up the idea of a website. She couldn’t back out now, without taking potential income from Phil. But she had taken a mental note of Keith’s remark, ‘…sliced into parts’. Not, ‘…into half, or into two’, and his earlier reference to ‘…different contraptions’, which didn’t bode well with her.

She was broken out of her deep thought, when Susan grabbed her hand. “Come on; let’s get you into your costume, before you have a change of heart.”

Laurie really didn’t have much option but to be led away to a changing room that was once an empty storage room. “That’s your locker, mine’s beside it. Your black leotard and heels are in it. Just put your casual stuff in it once changed.”

Then Sue kissed Laurie on the cheek. “Thanks, for helping us out and…Phil.” The she smirked before leaving the room.

 

[JayTee69gmx]

Phil and Keith talked about the general design that Keith had planned for the website, which gave Phil some ideas for composition of the photographs.

When Sue came back he posed her by the blue box. She was not a natural model like Laurie, and needed some time to get relaxed. Phil just kept triggering the shutter sound without taking photographs until the stiffness disappeared. Very attractive, very similar morph to Laurie. Finally she began to show her natural sexiness to Keith, and Phil captured a few shots that displayed the magician's assistant distracting the audience.

It was easy photographing Laurie because of the connection they shared. Not so easy with Sue, but it was a good way to practice extending his skills.

But when Laurie entered the room in a black leotard, Phil felt a rush of desire.

 

[pipper]

Laurie approached the box. Determined to put on a good show, not only for Keith and Susan, but for Phil, she stood in front with her arms stretched out behind her with her hands on the closed lids. Posing always with one leg in front of the other, she changed her stance slightly with each pose.

Then Laurie went to one end of the box, and this time with only with one hand on the box lid, she looked as if she was letting the viewer know what was about to happen.

However, Laurie wasn’t finished. She walked back to the front, picked up one of divider blades off the lower section. Then kneeling she held the blade in her hand while looking at it which resulted in her reflection being seen in blade. Then she ran her fingers over it while smiling at the camera.

 

[JayTee69gmx]

What a difference. Laurie was just a natural model. She was so relaxed in front of the camera. And she knew just how to pose. Never any need to guide or direct. And creative! The shots with her face mirrored in the blade would be great.

Phil knew he would have some trouble carrying detail in the part of her body the leotard covered because the black was such a contrast to her pale skin. But this time he decided to push the black down and purposely submerge that detail. As if he were keeping those details, the exact shape of her breasts, and belly, and hips and mound, all for himself. As those ideas crossed his mind he found the usual physical attraction he felt in her presence amplify. But quickly diverted himself by checking the overall exposure profiles on the boxes, the rest of the scene.

 

[pipper]

"Well, that was interesting,” commented Keith. “You two young ladies did a great job, however we need to put on a show for our future clients. With that in mind, Susan would you be kind enough to climb into the box, and Laurie I would like you to assist me.”

Laurie watched as Sue climbed up onto the table and then walked into the box until she could sit down in the middle. She then extended her legs until her feet were extended just past the end of the box, resting on the padding.

Then Keith turned the end of the box towards the camera, which was acting as the invisible audience. He then took out a stock from the lower level which had two cut-outs in it. “This is used for securing Sue's feet,” he explained, displaying the stock with a flourish; then handed it to Laurie.

“Would you be so kind to put it into place over the end of the box and secure Sue's feet?"

Laurie lined up the stock with the grooves in the end of the box and her friend's ankles, and pushed it down into place. It clicked as it locked.

“Now close the lid over her feet and then lock into place,” Keith instructed Laurie, who was still trying to figure out how this act would achieve its goal. She pulled the lid down and latched it shut.

Now Keith turned the box sideways so that the camera could see the entire length of the box, before he produced another stock, one that only had one cut-out, which was obviously going to go over Susan's neck. He handed that to Laurie. Susan courteously raised her chin, so that Laurie could slide the stock over her neck. She pushed it into the grooves and soon there was a click, indicating that it had locked into place.

Keith then nodded to Laurie who knew what was required of her. She simply pulled the lid down over Susan’s upper body, and latched it shut. Keith grinned, as if portraying an evil magician, as he lifted up one of the blade dividers. “Are you ready to be sliced into two my dear?”

“Yes, I submit to your will, my master,” replied Susan. Laurie successfully held back a giggle, then was stunned as Keith handed her the blade. “The honour goes to you, my dear.”

 

[JayTee69gmx]

Throughout Phil had kept the video running. Later he would chop some clips to make a coherent story for the website. Meantime he photographed from different angles finally catching Sue in more natural poses as she concentrated on climbing in the apparatus. Curiously Keith stood a ways apart from the two girls. Whatever the illusion mechanism, it apparently did not require him to operate.

Laurie worked smoothly, as if she had done this many times. From time to time Phil grabbed shots of her that he would keep for his personal cache. When she twisted just so that the curve of her breast echoed the curve of her hip while her blonde hair lifted the silhouettes and made an inverse foil. Or when the rise of her mound happened to be accentuated by the soft pale skin on her inner thigh. So beautiful, he thought. Then returned to the task of grabbing shots for the website.

 

[pipper]

As Keith handed the blade to Laurie, she was in a daze. She had just locked her friend inside that box. Susan was really lying inside the box. If Laurie sliced the box in half, she really was going to do the same to Sue. But this was a magic trick. Or was it? On inspecting the box earlier on, Laurie hadn’t found any hidden compartment, or even when Sue was locked in. The cut-outs exposed her arms and legs. Maybe the divider blades had some way of collapsing when they were inserted.

“Put the blade in, my dear,” Keith said, in an evil tone.

Laurie pushed the blade into the slit at the centre of the box. She could feel it landing onto something soft. Was it Sue’s body?

"Keep pushing down,” Keith said. Laurie pushed the blade deeper into the box. Susan winced, before taking a second to compose herself again, and put a smile back on her face. "Deeper my dear, you have to go much deeper!" Keith commanded. Laurie did as she was told, and this time, she could definitely feel the blade cutting into something. Susan winced again, as Laurie continued to push the blade deeper into the box.

Susan again winced. She turned her head from side to side, tossing her beautiful long hair over the thin padding she was laying on. She seemed to kick and pull her legs and feet in a futile attempt to escape. Her eyes were closed because she was wincing. Her mouth alternated between opened for moaning, clenched teeth, and lip biting. She was enduring a lot at the moment. Laurie continued to push the blade through the box and cut into its fleshy contents. The soft resistance was exactly how she imagined Sue’s body would feel like.

Keith then handed Laurie the second blade divider. “Do the same with this one, my dear, right beside the other one.” This time the blade went in easily.

Then Keith brought a small remote from his pocked, and pressed something. A loud click was heard. “Now, my dear, pull one half of the box away from the other.” Laurie grabbed the end where Susan’s head rested and slowly pulled it. A gap appeared between the two halves. Susan now appeared to be in two, but was she?

“Move your feet, please me dear,” Keith said. Laurie watched in astonishment as Sue’s feet moved.

 

[JayTee69gmx]

Phil was frankly amazed at the illusion. Sue added to it with the expressions on her face. If Laurie was in on it, he could not tell, but really it seemed not. She really looked reluctant to press the blade down.

As the blade sunk down Sue winced and squirmed. Keith looked relaxed and confident. Phil used a long lens to grab close ups while staying out of the view of the video camera. A few times he switched his hand held camera to shoot video clips, then decided on the fly to use it as a second video camera. In HD he could extract frames for still shots, good enough for a web page.

Then there was a click, and the boxes separated. And the legs moved! Was there another woman in that lower box? Were those legs just an illusion? Clearly Sue had to be in on it. But Laurie's reactions were genuine, he was sure. She was as amazed as he was.

 

[pipper]

“Oh, my dear Susan, would you like to be returned to one piece, so you can do the same to Laurie?” Keith in his evil character’s voice asked.

“Yes master, I would.”

Laurie rolled her eyes. Such dramatics, she thought. But the idea of being under Keith’s control was to make the act more appealing to the site’s clientele.

“Now my dear, Laurie, please align the two halves back together.”

Over the next four minutes, Keith used his remote to lock the two halves back together again, after which Laurie removed the two stocks and opened the pair of lids. She then helped Sue to stand up, who then opened her arms out while looking at the camera. “See, I’m all in one piece!”

 

[JayTee69gmx]

Phil got it all on video and took shots. And still had no idea how the illusion was done. None at all. Laurie had been even closer. Did she know?

Meantime Sue did present a very attractive subject, now much more relaxed in front of the camera. Phil caught himself wondering, imagining her in more revealing outfits. He recalled Laurie mentioning something about Keith and Sue being very adventurous. This could turn out to be very interesting indeed. The way she said 'master' to Keith.

He finished the series with shots of the three of them together in front of the equipment. Flicking his eyes back and forth between the two young women, Phil noticed again that something he could not define gave him a really strong attraction to Laurie.

 

[pipper]

“Let’s take a rest, before Laurie gets sliced!” said Keith, as he returned the stocks and blades to the lower level of the box.

Laurie was still wondering how she had managed to put Sue into two halves. The box was designed in a way, that there wasn’t any concealed compartment. ‘It had to be the blades’ she thought. Then she heard Susan.

“Oh, guess what? Keith and I went to the club last night, and we saw Bella being slowly swallowed by a snake, and I mean completely swallowed.”

Laurie scoffed. “Oh, please! She’s done that so many times!”

“Ah,” continued Susan, “she didn’t say the phrases; it was a guy on stage with them. I mean, how else is she going to come back out, if she’s inside the snake, and the phrase to get her back out, is muffled?”

“I guess that’s a good point, otherwise she’ll land up in the snake’s stomach, but she won’t because the club’s staff would take a knife to the snake and kill it, then cut Bella out.”

“Hey, that’s an idea!” Keith exclaimed. “Let Phil learn the phrases, and let’s see Laurie go part-way into Oscar, while we watch.”

Laurie felt sick to her stomach. “Er…no, because Oscar would have to learn to respond the Phil’s voice as well getting to know him as a friend.”

What a mess!

 

[JayTee69gmx]

Phil shut off the video camera, checked battery level, ok for now. Set his camera down and relaxed.

"Yes. a break goes well right now. It might not look like much pressing a button on a camera, but there is a lot of concentration required if one is to get good shots. Always checking the exposure, the composition the background. It's one of those things that one puts a lot of effort into making it look effortless."

Phil considered the suggestion of photographing Laurie in the snake. He found it oddly erotic, seeing that, but his overall sense was still nervousness. It seemed wrong to put the snake in a position where he might have to kill it, just because the snake followed its natural impulses. Captive, fed ersatz body parts, the snake was perfectly safe and no threat to anyone apart from the live rats he got as a treat.

"Well the snake and Laurie is a possibility, but there are so many other situations Id like to photograph too." Looking at Keith," I hear you two enjoy playing at bondage? Perhaps you would like some, um, more or less circumspect photos of that for your website? Where Sue is tied up and you are performing something, I don't know, I guess the tradition is knife throwing? Just thinking out loud, I am sure you have better ideas. Has Sue been in that peat pit?"

 

[pipper]

Laurie didn’t like where this discussion was going: bondage before being sliced into two or even more parts, Oscar and then the peat pit. Had she made a mistake bringing Phil here?

“Oh, she’s been in the peat a few times,” replied Keith. “Hey! Why don’t we get the two girls here, to do a sexy scene in the pit before completely submerging? To heck with taking photos; we’ll just watch them! Now that’s a great idea!”

Laurie stared at Susan. “He can’t be serious, surely?”

“Oh, he means it. I’m game, what about you?"

Poor Laurie stood there, as if she was a stone statue. She needed a way out. “On one condition; If Phil can get Oscar to get along with him, as a friend, then I’ll do it, otherwise you’re on your own in the pit.”

Sue looked at Phil. “Well?”