The one with the cigarettes

Please don't leave without critique! :)

Quality of your shot is stunning! Such a great grey scale! Such a light! Such a moody old woman! Love it. Composition is perfect, just some stripes in the blurred background are a little bit distracting.

very good crop, tones and curves. well done

taking out the color was a great choice! =) nice shot!

Excellent capture of the everyday life!

verrrrryyyy nice :))

Jochen: A wonderful image. Just as is.

 

A possible alternative presentation is to use a contrast mask and a slight bump in EV to make the eyes alive and pull out skin and scarf detail, as attached.

Thank you all for your comments.

@Patricia: Thank you very much for this example. The cup and the cigarette should be to most important things in this picture. In your version the face and eyes are a little overdone, i think. Nothing at all, many thanks! :)

Please excuse my terrible english!

i have seen this one before in aukea.net, and i think that this is probably the best pic there. this is all about life!

more than wonderful!

excellent bw image !....seen in random generator