I figure I might as well pretend it's ANTM and make "call-out orders."
If we're going by groups:
1. Salome & Gabriel. By a country mile.
2. Karen & Shawn. Individually neither is great, but they strike a good pose together.
3. Sandhurst & Mountaha. Mountaha's face sets these two down soooo much; otherwise they'd be #1.
4. Jonathan & Laury. Laury's face sets these two down so much.
5. Amanda & Kerryn. I honestly like its kind of casual sexiness.
6. Branden & Chris. They're just kind of awkward, but it's not terrible.
7. CJ & Jordan. CJ is rocking the hell out of it but Jordan sucks, and the pose of it just doesn't work at all for either of them.
8. Ken & Colin. This is just... bad. No good. Etc.
If we're going by individuals:
1. Gabriel. DO WANT. Okay, he's kind of a male prop to Salome, but he's doing awesome. Oh man, his face. His lips are... amazing.
2. CJ. I know she struggled badly at the shoot, but strangely enough, she ended up being the second-best - she looks stunningly beautiful and sexy and incredibly confident - while her partner, who was great the whole time, had a final photo that was the second-worst.
3. Sandhurst. The shape of his body is just great. His pose has an awesome casual sexiness.
4. Salome. Girl rocked it. I wish it was a little bit less flail-y but her face is soooo gorgeous and she really does look, I dunno, into it even though she's not looking at Gabriel.
5. Jonathan. He's hot, he knows it, and it totally works.
6. Kerryn. I want to snap at her to wake up and one of her thighs looks pudgy, but her pose is awesome and she easily stands out while not being obnoxious about it.
7. Amanda. Absolutely gorgeous and the clothes look great on her, but there's terror in her eyes and Kerryn badly outshines her. Had she gotten more space in this photo, she might have been in the top three or four "call-outs."
8. Karen. Her facial expression is a little snarly and I wish her stance wasn't so wide, but it's actually kind of cute in a weird way.
9. Branden. For all his homophobia before the shoot, this photo actually turned out quite well. It's a little "yeah I'm so hot I'm gonna just pose here" but he's trying more than Chris.
10. Shawn. He looks cross-eyed and I don't see that much energy, but I dunno, it's still pretty good.
11. Ken. You know, this photo isn't that bad, really. His body is soooo not made for this kind of modeling, though, and it's fucking distracting (OHHH GOOOOOOD). Like Branden's, his pose is more "look at how hot I am," but at least Branden was trying to create intimacy with his partner.
12. Colin. Oh, Colin. :( His pose is interesting, but it makes his torso look freakishly long and his legs look freakishly short with the way Ken cuts him off. His face is unsure and kind of at a weird angle. It's not TERRIBLE, but it's pretty bad...
13. Chris. Wow, he's doing nothing.
14. Mountaha. Her pose is great, but her face completely fucks it up. Wow, I can't get over how bad her face is here. Still, there were two worse...
15. Jordan. I know she rocked it at the shoot, but this final photo is terrible. It's the WORST expression on her face and it's a terrible body position where she looks humongous, when she's really too skinny. It's bizarre... but a horrendous photo.
16. Laury. Absolutely no energy - Jonathan's doing all the work here - and her face is even worse than Mountaha's. Ugh, she looks like she's going to throw up then fall asleep or something. Ugh ugh ugh.
