Rory Reid. Man. Lover. Tyrant.

Rory Reid

This is the irrepressable Rory Reid, PCs Editor for CNET.co.uk.

I take a lot of straight headshots for work, and most of the time the images are pretty bland. They’re not meant to be anything else, simply to use on the internal “phone book” site. I take them for the HR department. We arrange a time and line people up outside the studio and they come through like a conveyor belt. Almost everyone hates doing it, so I keep it as quick and painless as possible. Pop! Pop! - two or three shots at the most and it’s over.

Rory is a journalist, though, and needs shots taking for the website he writes for, so he’s been in front of my lens more than most. I must have taken hundreds of photos of him, though I’ve never really been happy with any of them. At least, none that I’m really happy with, if I have my critical faculties engaged. But I like this one. I like the portraits I take to be neutral, to have something sombre about them going on, and this has that, I think.