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Headshot selection for artwork

My original plan was I didn't really want my headshot on the cover art and other stuff. I was gonna leave it as an octopus. And then some people showed up (totally "unrelated") and said people are going to fall in love with my face. So I guess I'm making a headshot now...

And I actually need a headshot for three things. 1. I'm doing a workshop at Confluence. 2. This podcast cover art. 3. The Youtube thumbnails since I'm doing a lot of solo episodes anyway.

I have my main "profile photo" one which I use for everything right now. I really like that one. And I even used it for my temporary cover art that I threw together. I'm attaching both of those.

Then I've been taking a few more, both inside and outside. I have about 200 of those (in case you can't get enough of me). Here are a few.

For outside, I live on the beach so I can go back out there and take more if needed. For inside, I have the softbox so I can mess with the lighting a lot. Let me know if you have more direction for either.

My questions:

Is the profile photo good? I'm concerned that since the original is taken at a distance the cropped version is lower quality and may not work in some cases.
Are the windy hair ones gonna make the background removal wonky? Guessing for the headshots we don't need to remove the background but I know y'all do for the YT thumbnails.
Eyes are more closed when outside. An issue?

And more generally, which one is the best???

Thanks!

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