WINDY DAY PORTRAITS

[FUJI]

Returning from a poolside shoot on Tuesday, I chanced upon an aquantance who, like me, doesnt like the barbers.................The windy weather was blowing both of our barnets about.

 

Knowing that my 2.8-100 Macro lens is a good one for portraits I asked if he would oblige..............he was quite happy to do so, so, in a howling gale and in a little shade from a nearby tree I shot these  two portraits:

 

Below, are the mono versions, one grittier than the other.........one closely cropped in camera, a portrait method I quite like..........I woud like to know which one you prefer and why.

 

My subject, will of course, receive a whole set of both colour and mono when he next emails me:

 

Best viewed LARGE.......Clock on Pica:

 

 

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

Ok, are you ready for this??

 

I like ...

 

1. the framing on the second (head & shoulders)

2. the non-grittiness on the first

3. the un-messed-about-with hair on the second - top and top right 

4. the remaining hair on the first

5. the ear on the second (the ear on the first looks totally weird, like a milky waterfall )

 

Hope that helps - I suspect it doesn't!

[NannyFerret]

They are both good shots, but I like the second one best, showing all of the wayward hair and the shoulders.

I think the editing on the second one shows his features up better too.

[FUJI]

Spot on crit Chris..........thank you Nanny........just the feedback I wanted.

I did pull him into the shade on a very bright very windy day.......his left ear and his very white hair ( and left ear) were blown in parts.....I tried to recover that.......I can now return to the original RAW files to have another go.

I must explains too, that he is a professional Father Christmas for a certain large store.........the whitening bleach he uses on his hair and beard are growing out, so his dark grey roots are showing. hence the......messed about look.......noo.......it's as is ;-)

Just prior to Christmas, his hair and beard are silvery white and trimmed into that Hollywood Santa style, you wouldn't think it was the same guy........I have a pic somewhere I will dig it up for further comparison.

Here it is......taken two years ago.

Cheers!

FUJI

[NannyFerret]

He does look a lot different, and his beard is longer, isn't it?

[Korky]

It's the head and shoulders shot that does it for me. What a great subject!

 

He certainly has the look of a slightly nutty professor, the kind who smells of pipe tobacco and wanders the corridors of academia mumbling to himself about the price of carrots.

 

Another winner, Fooj, well done.

 

Korky

[FUJI]

Thanks folks.......Im still working on the final version Korky.....I want to do him justice, because he is such a great subject:

 

FUJI

[colinb]

I prefer the editing of the first but the composition/crop of the second - the missing beard just looks odd to me.

 

 

and you should have stuck your tongue out 'Einstein' styley 

[Guest]

What a character, I'm with Chris.

[Kobione]

Great looking character, Fuji. For me just a little more of the hair and the beard in the first would have been great!!