New floating head
Since I have several speaking engagements coming up (many who were asking for a headshot and I had none ... save my dye-job epic shots) and my blog needed a wee update, I decided to do the uber goofy thing and stand in front of the bathroom mirror and do some self-portraits (when a girl is desperate, she is desperate). I mean, it IS self-portrait Tuesday, isn't it?
Well, they turned out okay, I think...but then I was stuck with the question...which one?
This is what I love about Flickr. I can post my 'options' in the morning and by 5:00, I have a whole bunch of votes to tally! So, the winner is now nested in my blog and I have three clear 'leaders' if I ever need to 'mix it up'.
Thanks for all of your help! ;)
Well, they turned out okay, I think...but then I was stuck with the question...which one?
This is what I love about Flickr. I can post my 'options' in the morning and by 5:00, I have a whole bunch of votes to tally! So, the winner is now nested in my blog and I have three clear 'leaders' if I ever need to 'mix it up'.
Thanks for all of your help! ;)
6 Comments:
You are so damn photogenic!
The one you put on the blog is much sharper than the other two, so I vote for that one. You don't have your usual big smile in it, but it's still a great shot.
I'm hoping to finally meet you in person at SXSW : )
Good picture ;)
If I may...I like your 'smiling pulled back' version better. It's more promo-centric for speaking gigs, etc.
Maybe a tad blurry, though. Could you call the whole production team back for a re-shoot?
Congrats on the technorati top 100 "most favorited" btw.
I liked "smiling pulled back" artistically, but technically, it was quite poor. Which leads into another topic: photographic merit. The only thing in riya that seems to add such a capability is the free-form tags field...
Flickr doesn't really have an "up" on riya here, and though Adobe Organizer has a rating system, organizer isn't sharable, so you can't get external opinions.
THEN you have to add to that the issue of Trust... talk about a can of worms! Who do you trust to make photographic value judgements? Is greenup too picky? george too artsy-fartsy? is frank really good about value, but only in the technical arena? Go to the next level: Do YOU trust the same people *I* do to make judgements? to the same degree?
ok, maybe all of that is too much... too complicated for Joe to use (or maybe even understand) on a regular basis. Still, there's probably a middle ground that would work Really Well... Good luck finding it.
(by the way, I prefer either Photoshop's blemish remover or even "neat image" to camera shake as a complexion improvement method)
oh, I forgot:
One thing I've dreamed about for photo organizer software is a "plugin mechanism" that could serve as kindof a "robotic opinion" on how good my pictures were... purely on a technical basis... the most obvious one would be based on bluriness, but others could be coded based on fractal dimension, contrast ratio, histogram smoothness, ...
So many dreams, so little reality to go around.
maybe even some combination, with different weights for different plugins. :-)
Miss Rogue would do well to use all three heads in one pict, as is "The Difference" posted just below, and this is NO COMMENT, just that there was a "mythical monster Cerberus the three-headed dog" which is six eyes, three noses, and threee mouths..., one could smoke, one drink, the last think. We are normal, too maybe. Maybe I'll use three heads in my blogitty. And this week all my flickrs will be upside down.
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