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message is in the picture :)

Wow! This is a pretty striking portrait- I like it.

i thing the crop is not the best .

also the tone. could be a little bit better.

i also find some faults of the editing.

so here. for me it?s the better one.

rgds

thank you Michael :)

I like the cropping. It adds a lot of feeling to the image.

Looks almost like a pencil drawing.Beautiful portrait!

Cheers,Jim

Excelente luz,B/W. un bello retrato encuadre, perfecta composicion, saludos cordiales Nikolai.

One looks at the thumbnail and sees a drawing, looks at the full-size image and sees the photograph. I've experimented with such techniques, not very successfully, and I think two things make this work. The strong, forced cropping emphasizes the graphic relationship between the collar and the bottom corner on the one hand, and the metaphysical dimension to the subject's gaze on the other. The tension between the photographic rendering of skin texture and the painterly charcoal-on-gray-paper-with-chalk rendering of tonality catches us betwixt and between in a very interesting way that I greatly admire. If you return to this, the chalky highlights could be better placed on the face, and removed where they go beyond the hairline.

Your comments are very penetrating, I felt but was not able to define and describe the picture as you did it. Thank you again!