Why are fishing lures such pretty bright colors?
To catch the fisherman who come to the sporting goods store to buy them – why else! Have you ever in your life seen an oblong shaped fish, silver on one side, red and white stripes on the other, with a little devil’s head at one end? I didn’t think so. To assuage any and all fishing fans reading this article – I too am a fisherman. And while I know full well some of the brightly colored patterns are meant to and do catch fish, it’s also reasonable to assume the bright colors and fishing lure package hype are bait for the “walking-upright” human fish. I think the same holds true for photographers and the allure of a “portrait studio”. Read any professional photography magazine and you’ll see interior pictures of beautiful, elegant studios; furnishings right out of Home & Garden or House Beautiful. More money spent on a glass topped contemporary coffee table than on our entire IKEA bedroom set. (Which I happen to think is pretty nice thank you very much.) We see images of portrait studio
