Mikolaj II

excellent composition, congrats !

Roza,

Nice simple composition.  Excellent lighting, your exposure was spot on. Thanks for this one.

Rick

Wonderful portrait - light looks very good and natural.

Seven all the way! Ambiance, lighting, interesting character, pose, subdued brownish colors...everything is perfectly done, that's why seven, Roza! Congratulations!

Best regards

PDE

beautiful light and expression

Muy buen retrato y mejor luz.  Saludos cordiales

Niestety nie potrafię zapomnieć wszystkich przykrych chwil spędzonych w zbyt bliskiej obecności Mikołaja :/

Excellent image! great use of single light source,color contribute to mood.Very well done!

Many regards! Hanan

Interesting portrait!

perfect in every sense.

Sincerely, Jukka

I agree with everything that's been said.  This is wonderful.  Fantastic use of light.  Great subject, lots of texture and mood.  Very nicely done.

Very very nice. Love the lighting and the PP is first class. Well done indeed....Ray

View larger & see how nicely done this is. There's detail in the deep shadows. He has a great craggy face for a subject. One would think he would be reading something on the table. Instead, he's lost in deep contemplation. The square format works well

I ditto the above appreciation of the photo. It evokes some questions in my mind.

1.  His left hand index finger is pointing into the dark space. What is the relevance of it?
2. The lighting brings focus directly onto his face, right hand and the illuminated wall. The chair in front and the furniture behind give some ambiance of the place. Why the crop is so loose to include the uninteresting dark space on the lower left. This is practically a half body portrait unlike ‘Mikolaj I’ in in Roza’a portfolio.
3. What is the bright object down below his right hand to the left of the table leg?

Fantastic thats all I can say

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The finger pointing is likely an innocent, and compelling, gesture . . . the way he happens to be holding his hand. I don't get the sense he's pointing to something but it still is evocative. The dark space is dark space. It offsets the light and has some intrigue. The bright spot is something metallic that is reflecting the light. It's nice because it suggests depth and detail even to the darkness.

The heavy stylization reads a bit like an illustrated cartoon to me.

Jatinder, I don't believe his finger is meant to be pointing at anything. I think it's just the relaxed state of his hand

I take such discussions as a means to learn from each other and suggest what the photographer could have done or avoided to make the photograph better.

This is not a candid but a posed photograph. If the pointing finger is not intentional to give some metaphorical meaning but just a relaxed posture of the hand, then I feel photographer should have taken note of it while guiding the subject into the pose. The shining object is out of place. The photographer should have taken care of it during post processing. If the photographer intended it to be full body portrait, then lower part of the body and the lower left of the photograph should have been a bit better lit like the rear wall. If it was intended to be a half body portrait then my subjective liking would be a tighter crop. The brighter part in the frame would still be balanced by the darker part on the left.