October 28, 2011 Brooks Whittington Portraits

Portraits: Matt Booth

I was a bit surprised when I met Matt Booth in person for the first time. Considering his image, I expected a stuck up ego maniac. What I met instead was a down to earth, easy to talk to, and passionate individual who knows cigars forwards and backwards.

We were at a private get together, and Booth graciously allowed me about five minutes to photograph him. I decided to go simple, and let the background, i.e. the Vegas strip, do the hard part.

I wanted to show a slightly different side of Booth then what you see in the advertisements, a solitary figure enjoying a cigar.

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For those of you who care about that kind of thing, this photo was take using all natural light, ISO 800 at f1.4, 24mm and 100/th sec, Canon Mark III body.

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Brooks Whittington

I have worn many hats in my life up to this point: I started out as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, then transitioned to photographing weddings—both internationally and in the U.S.—for more than a decade. After realizing that there was a need for a cigar website containing better photographs and more in-depth information about each release, I founded my first cigar blog, SmokingStogie, in 2008. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars, and it was one of the predecessors to halfwheel, which I co-founded.

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