Photoshoot #9

[Balding Brutes]

Best of the Best

Adriana Lima




Rodrigo Santoro





Ginny Weasley

[Janice Dickinson]

Welcome to your first final!

We'll start with Adriana. There's a lot of gold here. Perhaps you should've submitted this for the colours shoot and swapped Rodrigo's one for his BOTB. It would've worked for me, maybe not the other judges though. We've got some nice posing here, but the eyeshadow is terrible when the eyes are opened. However, on the plus side, long, luscious legs.

On to Rodrigo, I feel a very "Pan's Labyrinth" type vibe from this picture. However, I am not convinced for this on the best of the best shoot. I think the fashion is a little bit basic, but your face is really good. I think it just lacks the wow factor.

Finally, Ms Ginerva Weasley. I was very, very curious as to what would come up with Ginny. I am not let down whatsoever. Clearly your strongest picture here. I'm a little taken aback. The dress, hair, pose. It's perfect. I love it.

[Morgan Freeman]

Adriana this would have been a great colours shot for gold. I love your dress and the attractive sparkly setting that you are swirling around in. Modelling wise, the centre photo is the only photo that wows me and due to there being so many other images of you this centre photo becomes overwhelmed. If you were to eliminate the clones of you and place your centre self in a gold, glorious background that would be an impressive photo of your best I think.

This photo of Rodrigo doesn't stand out to be the best for me. You look gloriously handsome and I enjoy the mysterious setting around you (I wish we could see more of it) but theres no POP to the photo or WOW factor to give us a glimpse of your best. All I can see is an attractive model who may be lost in the woods.

Stunning, purely stunning miss Ginny Weasely. Have you recently joined Voldermort's crew? Because you look like you are on the dark side. You look ghoulishly dead or evil, I love the attitude in your pose and the way you are rocking that garment. The positioning of that arm of yours which is hiding behind your back is making your fingers look like twigs coming of a branch of some sort. But this is a minor modelling flaw in the big picture of this photo.

[Hikaru Utada]

Adriana, this is a lovely shot, but when it comes to "Best of the Best," I'm not sure this quite fits the bill. The cloning aspect can enhance a photo when done correctly, but I'm not of fan of the execution here. It would have been nice if each "clone" was giving us something completely unique or if the "clones" were background support for the center model, who is then giving us a look/pose/sense of intensity. Instead, we have five Adrianas with no real focus here. Although, as with Janice, I'm liking your lovely legs here.

Rodrigo, I think we're getting closer with this shot, but not quite there, yet. Your head looks a little deformed here, but I do like your styling and posing. I can see an attempt at some artistry with the finishing of the shot and I can appreciate that. Like the other judges have said, it just lacks a wow factor.

Ginny, Easily your best shot of the round; this is what a Best of the Best shot looks like. The fashion in this shot is amazing and provides more than enough drama. Your strong posing only adds to an already great shot. I cannot find anything about this that I don't love. Great finish.