In the fall of 2012, my friend Timothy Stobierski asked me if I could take a headshot of him for the author biography page of a book of poetry that he had written called, Chronicles of a Bee Whisperer. I was happy to take the photo, as it is a cool thing to have a photograph that I took published in a book!
So we went down to a local park and I snapped about 50 photos and narrowed it down to ten photos for him to choose from. It was further narrowed down to two photos which I then converted to black and white.
So we went down to a local park and I snapped about 50 photos and narrowed it down to ten photos for him to choose from. It was further narrowed down to two photos which I then converted to black and white.
Neither photo has a wildly distracting background and so the focus is led straight to Timothy's Face. We ended up agreeing on the second black and white shot because the light is much softer on his face and shirt than the first one is. Without the harsh shadows on his face, it looks much smoother, and since his shirt has softer light on it, it does not distract from the main focus...Timothy. He is not facing the camera dead-on in the second one either; his shoulders are slightly angled which allows for a better photo.
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