Author photos

[ksmith]

I have about 3 weeks or so to have a new, official Author Photo taken. The one that appears in Contact Imminent is very spiff, but it was taken four years ago and I don't look like that anymore. Hair is now short and dark. I still have that sweater, and the leather jacket--I could do one of those shots like the one where the little kid wears the same shirt from infanthood to teen years, except there would only be four years difference and everything fits regardless.

Never mind.

ANYway, I still need to have the new shot taken, so I'll probably make the appointment for next week. Same studio where I had the CI shots taken, though I don't know whether the same photog is there. They do have one staffer who specializes in portraits, and I may ask to work with her. Maybe it'll be warmer and sunny, so we can try some relatively unposed outdoor shots. I hate shots that look posed. I hate having my picture taken. I'm not looking forward to any of this, but I need new photos.

*blech*

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Keep it simple? I tried the poses with the stack of books, and they looked fake. I tried the posed shots with the hands around the face and the whole bit, and they looked worse. IMHO, for me, the writerly shots--at the desk, with books, pen in hand--don't work.

(People will now point out all the posed shots that look great.)

Outdoors, sitting, standing-in-the-doorway-wearing-a-greatcoat. I'd like a decent 3/4 shot of me just looking into the camera. If the lines show, then they show. I already know that I won't look they way I do in the mirror. There's something about the reverse of right and left and the matter of symmetry or lack of same that means that unless you're Jaclyn Smith--who supposedly possessed a perfectly symmetrical face--you're going to look different in a photo than you do in a mirror.

Then there's the ten extra pounds thing. Don't know if that matters to you, but it does to me...