Smoke 'em if ya got 'em!

What makes a man?  Is it the cigar in his hand, or the way he smokes it?  You’ll be finding out about these clearly important issues and several others in this three piece feature I’m working on for my website covering the topic, “What Makes a Man?”

 

You might have seen this photo floating around on Joel’s Facebook page already.  It was loosely based on a Cigar Aficionado cover.  I actually took little things from several covers they’ve put out and combined them in this shot.  I embraced the ruffles on the backdrop, because I have too many clean / solid looking backdrop textures in my portfolio I feel.  I’d like to see some more distressed backgrounds if at all possible in my future.

Until its release date, take a look at some of the shots from from the shoot itself:

Note:  The varying tones themselves really have nothing to do with anything.  I just thought it would be nice of me to break up the eye for you.

I did all of that up there...  In this down here.

Dance party 2011.  ...Should 'a been there.