Here’s a link from Mike James that will inform those who want to know just how to shoot a portrait. This is from Jorg Colberg’s weblog about fine art photography.
Oh, those were simpler days. There is a reason why we, here at TB&O, tend not to take portrait commissions. We’ll do it when its an executive who needs his image for a corporate publication, but we’ll say no to a picture you might want of Aunt Maude.
In practice, photos like these are, we found, more difficult than they appear. When we made the staff images for our website, we tried to model the look and feel after images by George Hurrell who shot many of the great portraits of the stars in the 1930’s and 1940’s. (Sorry George) It wasn’t easy! Who would have thought.
Darryl does look a bit like Tyrone Power though.