Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[Shannon]

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LMAO!!!!!

@Shannon chose a redhead, his actual type, as the female image. How convenient...(she's actually gorgeous though imo, so maybe it was solid modelling)

"PrEdIcTiVe MoDeLz FeR iMaGeS BrAh!!1!111"

LMAO...seriously, well done, Shannon. Going to take a look at this bad boy immediately.

Thank you for this. Truly.

Believe it or not, I started off looking through over 2,000 images to choose the "Consideration set".  Thse that had potential.

I narrowed those down to 121.  There were White women, Black women, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Philipina, Thai, Middle Easter, Hispanic, American Indian, Norwegian and others.  All hair colors.

I didn't choose her as the final because she had red hair.  In the end it came down to a choice between a blonde and a redhead, and the models showed that the redhead was an overall better image for representing the product goals.  Ironically, my girlfriend also chose that image as the final.  It took me 6 more hours of work to settle on it too.

Believe it or not, she wasn't the most beautiful of the women I considered.  But all the other options had something wrong;  they were too dark, they were too erotic, they were posed less than optimally, they were prominently depicting the use of alcohol, background was crap, lighting was off, expression did not communicate the right thing, image too busy, etc. etc. etc.  My lessons as a pro photographer have not left me.

Now I'm going to go eat.  Enjoy.