You crack me up, man!

This one led me to your portfolio and I have to say that it's really, really nice. Excellent shots and a lot of originality.

What I really like about this photo, is just how natural it is and the expression. If I'm right, you didn't plan this one, it just happened and you had your camera ready. If it wasn't planned, you were quite fortunate to have all the right conditions at the worst time of the day for natural light photography (hard direct light). Seems to me this was taken in a bright summer day, early afternoon.

What makes this photo really good is the fact that the subject is not under the the sun that appears in the background but, in some shaded area. And you still have the essential light bounced from a patch of blue sky onto the subject. And not only that, it's perfectly positionned in relation to your subject (the light). The DOF is excellent; distractions are eliminated to the point where the subject is literally coming out of the photo.

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(I've removed a portion that might confuse or mislead other readers as it's no longer needed since Frank explains below the context and the environnement during that day).

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Yves Jalbert

Thanks Yves for the comments,

First this was taken about 4pm, the guy is facing west under an awning in front of a Starbucks store. Hense the shade you were talking about. The guy was dancing while playing music so he was moving fast, my shutter speed was very quick(1/5000), I was testing out the new D200 at higher ISO's. I didn't have to alter the photo at all by rotating, just a little color adjusting.

His necklace was bouncing back and forth, so it got caught frozen.

I'm working on my people shots and thankyou for the input.

Frank