Sizing up the models, and other optical illusions
Natalie and Micky this Saturday at SCORELAND.
There are some models who are much taller than they look on camera. Eva Notty (5’9″) and Kelly Christiansen (5’7″) come to mind.
On the flip side, Annina looks taller than she really is, and so does Christy Marks. Both are 5’4″.
Depending on where it’s placed, the camera can make someone look taller or shorter than they really are. When two or more girls are in the shot side-by-side, you can get a grip on how tall they really are.
I never realized how tall Micky Bells is until I saw her with other girls. She’s 5’8″. In this shot from this coming Saturday’s SCORELAND posting, Micky towers over Natalie Fiore, who is 5’5″. They are both barefoot. It looks like Micky could lay her boobs on top of Natalie’s boobs without getting on her tip-toes.
The group of Grand Bahama Island.
Because of Natalie’s bearing and photogenic personality, I always think of her as a towering woman. The way some girls stand makes them look taller than they are, and Natalie has this kind of regal quality. So seeing her next to Micky really held my attention.
In this photo from On Location Grand Bahama, Natalie has a very tall presence. (Given a boost by her skyscraper stripper heels.) She towers over Arianna Sinn (5’1″), who also has on equally high heels, and over Jenna (5’3″), Taylor (5’3″)and Karla (5’2″). The angle of the camera, slightly downward, also gives Natalie the height edge, plus she’s standing slightly closer to the camera. I’ve never seen her look more Amazonian.
The Key Largo line-up.
The best examples of the true height differences in a group of super-models come from two now-classic shoots: On Location Key Largo and Mega-Boob Olympics. The girls are barefoot, standing straight and not striking any poses. The camera is centered at waist height. Desirae was, surprisingly, the tallest of her group, surprising because she always seemed short to me, and the Titans shot says it all.
The Tit-ans of the Mega-Boob Olympics.
I was going to go back further in time to 1999 and reference the famous group photo shoot of Autumn, Kathy, Linsey, Chloe and Jessica Turner in London, but they’re all wearing different kinds of shoes so it’s difficult to get a handle on their true heights with the exception of little Autumn. Even so, this may not be the best of its kind for a group get-together, but it was one of the first, and it was the only time all of these famous girls were in one room at the same time.
