Closeup of a friend

00SS

Took this one last week and was going to give it to him as a gift, which version do you prefer (or neither) ? C&C welcomed.

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Agnieszka

Nice candid, just wish I would see more of his chin & in the color version his skin looks veeeery red.

Other than that, good catch

00SS

Agnieszka wrote:

Nice candid, just wish I would see more of his chin & in the color version his skin looks veeeery red.

Other than that, good catch

Hi Angie - I wish i had been a little further back (was shooting with my 80-200) so that is un-cropped :cry but, i did go back and fix the redness.. he is really red most of the time, so i toned it down a bit.



any better? thanks for your comment btw

Agnieszka

Looking better (in my opinion), would turn the saturation back up a notch ... right now it's looking a bit purple to me

Agnieszka

Wow ... he does have a hard skin though, have to say ... thought I'd do a "quick fix", but wasn't all that easy ... anyway, this is how *I* would imagine the color version (thought when I look at it again it looks a bit on the yellow side):

00SS

That's why I usually convert shots of him to black / white

Agnieszka

00SS wrote:

That's why I usually convert shots of him to black / white

Totally see your point He looks like quite a character

kris10jo

I'm a sucker for a good b&w. I'd give 'em that one. I miss the chin, too, but his smile is so infectious, I'm over it.

00SS

kris10jo wrote:

I'm a sucker for a good b&w. I'd give 'em that one. I miss the chin, too, but his smile is so infectious, I'm over it.

thanks kris - he is one of those guys that is always in a good mood

Kinkajou

Yeah, I'm voting for the BW. I think it works really well and probably better than any color version might.