Part of the redesign of this site is the need for more detail about how, when, where, who and any other such inquisitive things behind Randy Peterman Digital Research and Development. It means that I need a portrait so that people will look and say, “My goodness, just look at that man, he’s so brilliant looking. I’m sure he can code that project in 30 seconds just by using ESP.” So, this evening, while Jessica watched ‘Mean Girls’ I took some rather different pictures. I want something that looks good in black and white, I don’t want color because I think black and white requires more texture and character in the image, something that I want in a biographical picture.

However, this three-headed image below is not quite right. The Nikon 5700 has one inherent flaw: it adds a lot of noise to the image while it takes the shot if there’s really low lighting. Given that I wanted a high contrast, low lighting image, there was a lot of noise. So, in short I’m going to have to do this again, and possibly with Jessica’s help. I hope she can tolerate my perfectionism in self-portrature. After all, if you’re your own worst critic, then I’ll be my own worst critic more worser when I’m critically analyzing myself… or something like that.