Benjamin Herman

Please give some critique

An interesting expression and an interesting place. I wish there would be less DOF or that the man could sit nearer to camera, so that the background would bemore blurry. Light perhaps too harsh as well. Otherwise very nice. regards.

Very good, i like it a lot

Gil Evans, Dave Brubeck, Art Pepper, birth of the cool...this photograph transports me back to a time when Jazz, with a capital J, ruled (I don't know what the term for ruled was back then, but you get my drift). You've captured all that and more with this and you've added a dash of contemporary for good measure and a bridge between then and now. Great work...man.

Bravo! excellent! this is what I call PHOTOGRAPHY!

Sorry I wanted to give you 7/7, but have no more left ;-(

Biliana

Really good portrait. Well lit, and the context is very well created. I just think that you should not have "cut his left arm. But that is not enough to spoil the image.

This reminds me of photos of famous jazz musicians from the 1950s. Its a great photo. Now only if he had been holding a tenor sax instead of an alto it would be perfect.

Bravo! It's not merely that reflects a jazz mood or performance feeling -in their conventional appearance; I find intriguing the overall dryness, apart the face (expressive pose) and the magnetic, mysterious interaction that this is able to cause. A powerful eye to eye dialogue, a freezed moment repeating itself, and one that suggests look under the 'skin'.. not much would be revealed in the tangible surface, in its materiality... The action is in the air: like music... This little note echoes something of a sarcastic afterthought: "and you know, wouldn't be ironic if you don't find 'much' there either... it depends how you have expected things to be... Aha! did you get my ambivalence?"

"Gil Evans, Dave Brubeck, Art Pepper, birth of the cool...this photograph transports me back to a time when Jazz, with a capital J"

 

Doug, you know why it took you back? It was the eyeglasses. sax and eyeglasses instinctively remind of paul Desmond, until you look at the guy more closely and you think Gerry Mulligan.

This is slick.

Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!

A sophisticated composition.