I wonder if people passing by in the mall get to "window shop" the gals who are having their photos taken.

now just where is that store?

I think I need to see if they're hiring...

I'm caging up my boa constrictor and heading down there this very minute!

I think this is just one horny photographer.

I will take the same photos for a fraction of the cost.

OK ladies, if you're going to have this type of photography done as a "treat" for the husband, I don't know if you want some greasy mall photographer saying "Work it baby!" in a little mall cubicle with a curtain drawn, rolling around on the same sheets some other mall chick rolled on 20 minutes before. Then your negatives/proofs are stored in some national database that every $6 an hour employee has access to and can post online if they want?

Local photographers are a better bet - you can find a trustworthy photograher (I'd personally prefer female)who can show you her portfolio and will assure you that your proofs/negatives will be kept discreet. They will be much more creative, instead of the cheesy canned shots a mall shop will push for with laser backgrounds and fuzzy lighting from 1985.

I need to get my 3 wolf moon T-Shirt cleaned and ready.

@sir_pantsalot: I will pay to take those photos!!

Now people can fail to pay for boudoir shots of themselves!

I know all the guys are excited to sign up for jobs as Glamour Shots photographers. But I suspect the majority of mall shoppers who stop in for that service will NOT look as lovely as the ladies in the advertisements. I think the parade of women will look something more like the movie "Deuce Bigalow"

@suburbancowboy: I will pay you to watch you take those photos that you are paying to take.

@Julia789:

If you do do this, don't forget to make sure the copyright to the photos is signed over to YOU (Which, sadly, is not "normal" nowadays, although it should be for personal photos where you are just hiring the photographer's ability to take a nice picture). Especially for nude shots.

@JohnQPublic:

Michael James: Did you find a job?
Victor Skakapopulis: Yeah, I got something at the striptease. I help the girls dress and undress.
Michael James: Nice job.
Victor Skakapopulis: Twenty francs a week.
Michael James: Not very much.
Victor Skakapopulis: It's all I can afford.

-- Woody Allen and Peter O'Toole, What's New Pussycat

@Julia789: Deal Breaker!! Dream Killer!! The men will revolt against you. They can't have REALITY of what real women look like ruin this very moment for them.

The bad economy turned glamour shots into Playboy... AT THE LOCAL MALL. HOT!!

Why am I suddenly picturing George Costanza sprawled across a day bed?

My wife has started doing some graphical touch-up work for a friend who does wedding photos. What surprised her is that it appears that boudoir shots are now popular poses for prebridals. So it stands to reason that the photography chains are getting in on the act too.

I'm now applying for a position as a Glamour Shots photographer. I only hope that I can get hired before they discontinue this program

@mk3: As you should already know, a three wolf moon t-shirt never needs to be cleaned. In fact, wearing it will make women ask you to take their photos, even if they have to buy the camera.

I am such an idiot. Thanks for the reminder

I'm waiting for the 16 year old girlfriend to take shots for her boyfriend. I wonder who Chris Hansen will have to talk to.

Can I get those in wallet sized and also a few laminated please?

But seriously, I see a new game where you see exactly HOW far the Glamour Shots people will go along.

@verucalise-T minus 15 days: We know we are just choosing to ignore that for right now.

I remember boys in Jr high who wanted to be a gyno doctor. I remember thinking that your day would not be filled with model types coming in for a routine checkup. The only time people go to the doctor is when there is a problem and I do not want to see that when there is a problem.

@Hank Scorpio: +1 you win the internets today.

@shepd: Yes, it is hard to find photographers who do not want to keep exclusive rights to ALL their photos!

We have photographers do aerial and ground shots of buildings we sell, and they ALWAYS keep the rights because the new or future owners may want to buy the photos. They can keep selling the photos again and again.

For bedroom photography, however, one would HOPE they were not trying to re-sell them - Ha Ha! ;-)

@Hank Scorpio: I would havE thought you'd have gone for the Homer in the bedroom with Vasteline over the camera lens scene.

@Julia789: Do you know how much those laser backdrops cost me? They look great next to the waterbed too!

And remember to NOT put these on your credit card!

@Homerjay here for OxyClean!: Sorry, Homerjay, I really have no control over what the first thing that pops into my head is!

@verucalise-T minus 15 days:

LOL - OK I take it back. The women that go into mall shops for nudie photos will ALL look like Carmen Electra. And they will ALL invite the photographers to jump in the sheets with them after the photo shoot!

There. All the guys are smiling again. ;-)

@RandomHookup: or the kid behind the counter will ask you to prove that is is really you.

Um... why am I suddenly hearing that girl in Napoleon Dynamite... "Just imagine you're weightless... You're in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by tiny little sea horses... I think that's gonna come out really nice."

At least it looks like Glamour Shots is finally abandoning the soft-focus, feather boas and 80s makeup.

@Julia789: Oh phew. We've avoided a riot. Decorum reigns again...

@DayWeSpilledThePaint_GitEmSteveDave: You "see" a new game... or just "hope"?

@JustinAche: Do you have the disco ball and the fuzzy lighting filter? Don't forget the shot of holding the rose over the shoulder!

@DayWeSpilledThePaint_GitEmSteveDave: I'm heading down there with my dog, peanut butter, and a spatula.

Just in case you're wondering, my dog's name isn't peanut butter!!

I don't think that anyone wants to see the women who go to Glamour Shots to get nudie pics done... All the women that you are envisioning are going to go to REAL professional photographers. On a similar note, I took a couple of classes in college that involved nude classmates. ATTRACTIVE nude classmates!

@verucalise-T minus 15 days: can't anybody have fun anymore?

@sir_pantsalot: Awww the poor boys, dreams of being a GYN ruined!

A friend is married to a GYN. People ask her "Doesn't it bother you?" She says "Are you KIDDING? Have you seen the women in his waiting room? 80% are elderly, obese, or there for unattractive medical conditions. Even if a real hottie came in, he'd still have the old lady with the hysterectomy on his mind!"

@CaptainKidd:

They are. There was one case I remember where the bride was wearing see-through panties while getting dressed and the pics ended up on the internets.
Maybe she was insuring her husband would have some fap material after they had three kids and gravity had taken its toll.

I trust an underpaid mall employee to take naked pictures of me, and not spread them all over the internet. Sure.

@Homerjay here for OxyClean!: With the cowboy hat on!

I happen to be a boudoir photographer and would highly encourage women wanting boudoir photos of themselves go to someone who specializes in this. Going to a mall minimizes what is supposed to be a fun, yet intimate experience.

I do wonder if they've considered a name change...I've never thought of nudie pics to equal glamor. I'm not saying I dislike them, I just don't associate them with being glamorous. ;-)

@HiPwr: I just let it dangle - I always run Commando for my boudoir shots.
Oh. Wait. That wasn't a metaphor?

Speaking as someone who worked at Glamour Shots for about 3 months, these types of photos are not a "new" offering. The rule was no nipples, no girly-bits showing. And the ladies that come in for them do not look like the one in the photo. Let's just say 2 years later, I still remember most of them quite vividly. For example, the woman who'd just had gastric bypass surgery and dropped 120 lbs but hadn't yet had the excess skin removed & got pics for her husband. Very touching, but not something like those images above.

Oh, and the drapes they use? There's no washing machine in the store. AT ALL. You think about that one for a moment.

@temporaryerror: A friend took a similar course here. The art instructors use hired models, and they start out with obese and/or old models first to weed out people taking it for voyeuristic purposes rather than any real interest in art.

Nothing like a naked overweight, 75 year old great-grandmother (who was super nice nice by the way) to suddenly decimate half the male enrollment in the class.

@sir_pantsalot: Trust me...the people that want those photos taken won't look like the lady in the ad.

@Hank Scorpio: Pfft. Stupid brain.