Crop the hero portrait to the head, not to the source photo

The canonical portrait is a square with the subject well framed, so taking
side = min(w, h) selected the entire photo, ceiling and desks included, and
scaling that into the avatar circle left the head at roughly a fifth of it.
The banner had a face on it and none of the effect a face is there for.

Frame head and shoulders instead, centred slightly above the photo midpoint,
and seat the circle on a blurred dark plate so it separates from the lattice.

Author: peopleforrester