The guy kills the theme, cause the picture is not brightened a nuff or sharpened, If that's you, I suggest a expensive camera if you want to make youeself a stock image.
You don't need an expensive camera. All you need to do is take the picture with film instead of digital.
]Are you on pot? My photo was taken by a profession company as you see in my banner called ''Block''. To get a excellent picture, you need a nice digital camera, not some cheap ass one tho. Go for around 700$ not even a 600$ camera works good, other then that, you need lights, and a great background, a wind blower wouldn't help. ;]
It doesn't "suck", but it does need more lighting and lighter detailing work. It could be a work in progress. Put a world light somewhere near his shoulders and let it shadow him somehow then work around him and that.
it's just a stock.. and because it's not lightned enough is because there is a B/W gradient on it on 60%
As I said, that's if you choose to go digital. If you use film and a decent scanner (which Kinko's has), you can save a butt load of money. Why would you spend $700 on signature making? That's just stupid.