The excellent images of eComm 2009…
March 9th, 2009 by Dan York
A great aspect of eComm last week was that it had the services of an excellent photographer, James Duncan Davidson, who uploaded a series of eComm 2009 photographs:
Duncan, who was also one of the photographers at TED (and captured the now-famous image of Bill Gates releasing mosquitoes) provided some excellent photos of each of the many speakers at eComm. Here are some of (Voxeo CEO) Jonathan Taylor (click on any of these images to jump to larger versions in James’ photo collection):
Here are some of me (Dan York):
And here are some of (Voxeo CTO) RJ Auburn:
(Note that in all cases I am sending you to the first photo of the set in James Duncan Davidson’s collection – you can click on the other thumbnails on the right side to see the other images larger.)
From a speaker’s perspective, I have to say that it’s also great that Duncan will allow us to use these shots for our blog sites, social networking images, etc., basically any use except “commercial” usage such as brochures, etc. It’s nice as a speaker to have photos like these available.
He was also just a really nice guy and we had a couple of great conversations about photography, his use of Apple TV to display photos in the hallways, and other topics. You can find him online at his main website or his photo gallery.
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March 10th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Thanks Dan! It was a pleasure to shoot eComm and I enjoyed chatting with you!
March 26th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Most Avatars are pretty boring and like hearing ourselves on answering machines (telecom analogy for you), we probably all hate our own.
Yours is very distinctive and you have done a very good job of building an online brand within your profession.
In your case, I would have a professional (maybe not a photographer, but photo shopper) transform a similar high res picture into a similar avatar with the two colors. Like Pepsi modifies their logo, but not dramatically.
Sometimes when people change their Avatar, I lose them completely. Esp on Twitter – there are some that I follow closely, but many I slowly build a relationship with. A change of the avatar has been known to force a reset on that staircase.
I want to change mine, but for that same reason I don’t. I need to create a new avatar that is close enough to the present one that I don’t lose anyone in the transition. That is too much work. But no one asks me for headshots. In your case, do it.
I don’t like your ecomm shots. Of course, you are lovely in them, but they are too different. No need to change your brand that dramatically.
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March 26th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Why do you feel the need to moderate comments?
Worse case someone writes something offensive – "telecom is for jerks" – so what? Delete it later.
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March 27th, 2009 at 2:41 am
Dave,
Thanks for your comments. On the moderation issue, I noted in my last post that TypePad is apparently undergoing some type of problem with comment spam:
http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2009/03/moving-to-comment-moderation-due-to-typepad-not-protecting-against-comment-spam.html
As soon as they can fix that and I stop getting the daily *flood* of comment spam, I will very definitely turn OFF comment moderation. I don’t like having moderation on my blogs as, to me, it stifles the real-time aspect of the ongoing conversations.
And yes, your comment speaks directly to my reluctance in changing my avatar image. You’re right that in scanning through, for instance, long lists of tweets, you grow to know people’s avatars and can easily find people’s tweets. I have come to know the images associated with certain friends or people whose content I usually find particularly helpful. Those may be the ones that I pay closer attention to as the river of tweets flows by. So it *is*, to me, a fairly big deal to change the image.
What you suggest has been my plan to date… go to someone local and get a new headshot in a similar style. It’s just been an issue of actually….. *doing* that!
Thanks again for the comments, Dan
P.S. And yes, your avatar image with the phone booth is certainly distinctive, too.
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March 27th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Dan – It’s so funny that I found this blog post late last night. I’ve been wrestling with this exact predicament (except I just plain don’t like my avatar, high res or low) for the past few days. So yesterday afternoon I started looking at what I thought were the top avatars on twitter and yours was at the top of the list. It is very distinctive and does shine through all of the rest. So I started taking shots with the Photo Booth application on my Mac with the goal of producing a shot of comparable quality to yours. In the end I like how mine turned out, but it’s good to see that I’m not the only one sweating the small stuff…
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March 27th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Zach – That IS pretty funny and thanks for your kind words about my current avatar. Yes, I have found that it *is* distinctive and so I do hesitate to change it. Thanks.
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March 30th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
It’s interesting what Dave says: yes in a way the existing avatar has a brand value now. It’s a bit like the Obama "HOPE" badges, except of course that your shot from that interview predates the Obama badge!
The Duncan Davidson pictures are excellent, but if asked I would go for number 1. I think having a zoom-in full face is really essential for the Internet. A lot of sites squeeze the pictures down (extreme case – Twitter) and so you want to avoid empty space in the frame even if picture 4 is better composed. For people that have not yet met you in person it is often difficult to recognise you just from one 2D photograph, so I believe it’s important to have as much facial information as possible.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Duncan, Thanks for commenting here and I’ll look forward to catching up with you at another show. Dan