Sprecher — Portrait photography
Portrait photography in the studio: pictures for voice-over artists. Portraits for a voice artist, made at his workstation rather than against gray paper: a…
Portraits for a voice artist, made at his workstation rather than against gray paper: a large-diaphragm microphone and pop filter in the foreground, headphones on, the face three-quarter behind it. One frame with magenta and blue from the sides, the others restrained in gray. A voice artist’s portrait has to illustrate a voice the client has not heard yet — which is why the tool is in the picture, and why the focus is on how he holds himself while speaking.
The version with magenta behind the head and blue in the background is the one that works in a voice-over profile: it looks like a studio without a studio being in the frame. Color from behind also separates the head from the dark ground, which is otherwise difficult with a bald silhouette.
The headphones stay on for a simple reason. They show the working situation and give the picture a second line beside the shape of the face. The cable running out of the frame below is not an oversight but the connection to everything happening outside it.
And it stays a portrait, not an advertisement for equipment. So the focus sits on the eyes and not on the microphone, however precisely the hardware detail is placed.
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