Wanderer - Rome

Thank you for your comments, critiques and suggestions, G.

A hard look! Un abrazo.

Impressive look. Great composition. Very nice image. Regards, Jean-Marc

Excellent idea and composition!

Lo sai che a me piacciono i ritratti, e questo e' molto bello e significativo!...Ciaomau!

I realy love this very strong portrait from a very interesting position Guiseppe.

As you realy ask for real feedback .. I would like the background still clearly visible but a little less dominant to accentuate the strong character (using another aperture). Closing up the crop and a little rotation could also give more strenght to the man. doing this, you could get rid of the white sky attracting the eyes to the other corner.

A personal (very quick made) version, just to explain my personal vision, but I can be wrong of course.

 

.... Piet

Bella immagine: buona la composizione ed i toni. Complimenti e saluti.

Very good catch of a strong expression. The crop of the left side could be helpful to make it even more stronger. Piet's cropped version is a little too much cropped for my taste though.

Very good, sharp and nice converted candid street portrait taken from an effective angle. Any more crop would rip it out of context. It's just right imho. Saluti - El

this "street" portrait.

It was taken in a few seconds, while walking in a street not very far from the Vatican City. This man had dignity and his attitude wasn't posed or artificial. He was praying and looking right into the eyes of the passers by. I decided to shoot from below, I had the 35 mm mounted on the D300. I lowered the camera and shot keeping the man on the right because I wanted to contextualize the shot only with the buildings - keeping out of the frame the walking people all around.

This is why I find the interesting (and intelligent) comment/suggestion made by Piet not applicable here for mere personal preferences. Usually I like to crop tight on faces, but in this work I wanted some context (and - geometrically speaking - Jesus on the Cross is almost parallel to the roofs line!). Sorry if I am verbose, but I love when such good comments come, because this is the salt of the art: confronting our opinions helps us grow more and understand better our works and our passion.

Thanks a lot dear friends, ciao, Giuseppe

I agree with you that the context is important here. Those long lines leading up skyward work well against the downward, downcast gaze of your wanderer. The detail is striking in his beard and cloth coat.

Notevole!

Giuseppe - this is realy strong - great content, composition and tones! Congratulations!

 

And yes - I agree 100% with your composition!

And Thank you for passing by and commenting at some of mine - very appreciated as you very fine naigl whats all about the shot.

The original is perfect.

Congrat. Marianne

Bellissima!Espressiva,ottimamente composta come sai fare tu!...Augurissimi a te e consorte+ un felicissimo 2010!..il tuo omonimo..

esa mirada es perfecta para ese tipo de foto. Enhorabuena