I help run the Tulsa Digital Photography Group. We had a photo shoot last year with models dressed up very nice, as if they were going out for a night on the town. We photographed them in a urban atmosphere, metal walls, rusted backgrounds, brick, graffiti, etc. The resulting photos were really quite cool.
I had one that showed a women kneeling down and another bending over holding her skirt. I titled it ‘Drunk Girls Looking For It’ since they both looked drunk, reaching for something off camera. I thought of it as a funny title. I wrote below it that it was actually two models from a fashion shoot. The photo was in a set that showed it wasn’t really a photo of drunk girls.
I posted it on my flickr site along with all the other photos from that shoot and lo and behold, almost a year later it is my most popular photo. Why? Because the title. People search all the time for ‘drunk girls’ apparently. The photo isn’t bad or show them in compromising positions. I kept the title the way it was.
But if you see the other photos of drunk girls that come up in that search, it will definitely give you warning to not let yourself get in that situation for sure. Some are just funny, but some are downright mean, with the girls (and plenty of guys if you search for them) drawn on or put in very embarrassing situations. That is malicious and hurtful, not just silly.
You can’t control everything on the internet or in real life. But you can be smart about what you let out into the world.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
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