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Nicely executed. 'Looks like 2-light illumination, which seems less dramatic than the shadows created by a single or one-sided source. As is, its striking & nicely done.

This is how men are often depicted when nude, so I don't really fault you as much as I do our culture. There's something very dehumanizing about these centuries-old Greek type poses with single column or cube. Even in a nude "study" I like to think of the model as a person, and in these cases I'm often not able to, there's so much drossness at play. I see the grace of many of your women and this just seems so distanced and objective by comparison, kind of stone cold.

Thanks for all your comments.

Fred, you are right there is a de-humanizing factor on this type of portrait, but this is what I seek for in this type of sessions. In the case of female models, I want to de-sexualize their nudes to focus on the geometry of their bodies, so I have to instruct them to behave as stones and keep away from the erotic-minded body language they trend to be requested. In the case of the subject of this photo, I just followed the same scheme, regardless he is a man. On the other hand, while on other kind of portraits I do ask the model to show emotions and try to take them up, I believe that capturing the inner essense of the person being subjected in a photograph is the utmost challenge a portrait photographer can face; and I acknowledge that this is too high for my current skills.