Business Portraits, Part 3

How a Business Portrait Should Be Cropped My last pet peeve has to do with cropping…again, from my studies of art, images with compositionally heavy, broad, dark toned, foregrounds are more pleasing to the eye. For a portrait, the viewer’s eye needs to go toward the face, the eyes of the subject. Compositionally, anything along …

What Happened To The Sahara Dust?

Well, our TV weather people have been taunting the great sunset colors this week due to a huge Sahara Desert dust cloud that has made its way across the Atlantic. Twice we’ve gone out to record the colorful sky at sunset…and twice we have been underwhelmed. Gees’, all we wanted was a little color in …

BUSINESS PORTRAIT ESSENTIALS

Seems like a simple thing, a head and shoulder portrait to accompany your business bio in a conference presentation, for the corporate leadership web page, or perhaps to send out as PR with a new position announcement to trade publications. And sure enough, there are tons of photographers that offer “head shots” at as many …

New Work on ASMP Find A Photographer

Updated my ASMP Find A Photographer profile with a few new images today. Check it out: https://www.asmp.org/portfolio/larry-gatz/ After hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamians last week, I thought posting my friend “Fred” would be appropriate. Yes, Fred is Jamaican and not Bahamian, but he’s as close as I have to an island friend. We haven’t heard …