This is what happens if you ask me for topless model photos

Theres a few guys I used to work years ago who found it fascinating that I'd often be shooting with glamour models, sometimes lingerie style, sometimes wearing even less (the models obviously, not me). The guys didn't even pretend to have any interest in photography, they just had an interest in the models. To be fair I can imagine it seems a novelty to somebody who's unfamiliar with this kind of shoot.

There was always the running joke that I'm sure a lot of photographers have heard "if you ever need anyone to hold the light stand for you just let me know". It was all harmless joking although they did seem to have a strange obsession that they believed I had some hidden folder with more explicit shots than I posted in my portfolio or website. I think they'd just seen a few too many porn movies and in their head these shoots were far more explicit then they really were. In truth anyone who's been involved in any kind of glamour shoot (in front, or behind the camera) will testify that's the furthest thing from what actually happens.

I kept in contact with the guys over the years and they'd regularly message me asking if I'd shot any new models and to show them the pics. I don't think they fully grasped that they could see my latest work just by checking out my photography Facebook page, but I'd send on a few images every now and then. I never sent anything that I wouldn't have posted publicly without a clients permission, yet in the years of knowing these guys it never stopped them asking. Still the joke carried on that I must be holding out on them and there must be some more explicit shots.

So after a recent shoot with a client I decided to finally give the guys what they wanted. I text them telling them about the fitness model I just worked with just before Christmas and that we shot a lot of topless shots. I don't think I've ever got as quick and frantic a response from a Whatsapp message in my life. They seemed more excited by the prospect of seeing one of these topless shots then any adult should (also had nobody told them theres plenty of freely available porn on the internet if thats what they were looking for). Their response was funny but borderline desperate, probably because of the years this joke had been going on and I was finally suggesting to them I may send on the kind of images they wanted.

"Come on Dave, you have to share it now"

"Seriously man don't be holding out on us"

"Man I need to see these pictures"

These were examples of the responses the guys were sending. You have to laugh, these are grown adults.

So after the years of them asking I finally shared a topless shot with them from one of my client shoots.

This is Loic, a super cool bobybuilder based in Dublin, Ireland. Probably not what my buddies were expecting. They weren't impressed.

For the record while we were shooting I had told Loic about the guys and got his permission to send on one of the shots for the wind up. He was totally cool with it.

Do any other photographers out there get similar requests from non-photographer friends? Surely I cant be the only one.