And The Winner Is...
Well. I have finally found the on-switch for inciting comments on this blog at the edge of the known world: give readers two simple choices. Would you prefer a post today about 1) Tsuga or 2) some other yellow lab on Goose Creek?
And the judges final decision for the Author's Bio image is....(may I have the envelope, please)...
Overwhelmingly, number 1. I would have chosen number 2, but only because I am looking at a higher-res version (where there is some sparkle in the eyes vs the dark empty pits in the little low-res image.) However, I like the larger context of image #1 and it is the one I submitted with the book (though I can change it after the proofs come back.) This book is, after all, more about context than author, really, so the image should reflect that.
I will go back and see if I can improve the detail and contrast in the original for #1. And yes, I like the Fragments mugshot, but it is 3 years old, and too small (a crop from a low res image) and not a candidate. All I can tell you is, I am not about to go back out with the tripod for more shots. Today, I would be posing with one knee in the snow. I am not that dedicated.
BTW, the book is at the printers. Hurry up and wait. I'm trying not to nag, as my project has been passed along the book assembly line from my very faithful rep at Edwards Brothers to the folks who handle the submitted project for proofing, then printing. It has been a much more cohesive process than I had imagined, thanks in no small part to my fortuitous (though not at all random) choice of printer. And much more praise there when the book is in hand and I can discuss the process from start to finish.
Comments
Well I'm coming in a bit late on this but I actually like the second pic a lot better!
A trick I've read - when trying to decide on something like this - if you don't have the help of a blog audience of course - is to look at the pics upside down. And then in the mirror. And then upside down in the mirror. It really works!
Posted by: Rurality | March 25, 2006 10:30 AM
You know that you can give me a call and I will come out and shoot a few 8 megapixel hundred photos of your good side today.
I owe you that much for introducing us to Floyd in the first place.
Taking your own picture has the extreme liability that it always produces the deer-in-the-headlights look because you have time to "compose" yourself for the shot.
Call me and I will follow you around taking pictures until we get a keeper. It will be painless...I promise.
Posted by: David St Lawrence | March 25, 2006 11:20 AM