My obligatory introduction

I figure that since this is my first blog post it should be an introduction. So, without further ado...

For those of you who don't know me, I'm superhuman. Yes, I have super powers. Ok, not really, but I do have an extraordinarily sensitive nose (resulting in lots of sneezing) and I am definitely faster than a speeding armadillo (I know from experience running trails in Southeast Alabama).

Aside from my secret identity as SinusMan, I spend my days taking photographs of people. Sound familiar? Yeah, Peter Parker's got nothing on me. I'm a portrait photographer, huzzah! I especially enjoy environmental portraits of kids and adults. There's something really cool about watching someone get comfortable with you as you start to learn to spot the different emotions and attitudes from their outward expressions. I love the feeling when I fire off a frame and know for sure that I just got a "classic" expression, you know the one that everyone remembers a person by.

My personal favorite photographer is Gregory Heisler. The guy is amazing. He has something like 75 Time Magazine covers to his credit. I can pretty much guarantee you've seen his work. I really dig his stuff. But, I don't really want to "be like him." I want to be like me. I want my work to truly represent my own fascination with portraiture. I want it to be my take on the world and who the subject is at that exact moment. It's good to have influences to learn from, but I just really want to be me.

If you haven't already, please check out my website at http://robeaton.smugmug.com and the rob eaton photography page on facebook. Feel free to leave me a comment, preferably not along the lines of "you should really try to be like Gregory Heisler, because being like you isn't working." Something like "Wow, your super powers are really amazing! Will you autograph my forehead?" would be cool, though.

Until next time... stay classy and thanks for stopping by!