MN-1 A Portrait

Overcast afternoon, Used fill flash -1 to get some light on the eyes. Taken

with AFS-DC Nikkor F2.0. Love to hear from you. Regards, ifti.

Very nice work, Iftikhar!

Iftikhar,

Very good portrait! You have excellent composition, skin tone, expression and out of focus background. Your subject is well separated from the background. He has very good eye contact with the camera (viewer).

His eyes don't appear to be as sharp as they should be. Make sure you focus carefully on the eyes.

I can not see a separation between his pupils and his irises. It all looks like one large grey circle in each eye. To me this looks a little odd.

The tiny pointy little catch lights in the middle of his pupils are caused by using your built in flash for fill. This is better than no catch lights, but I would make them white. There is a reddish pink color cast to them.

Nice shot,

Mark

Rudd, thanks for giving me you time and needed encouragement.

Mark, Many thanks for the detailed Critique and coming from a professor of photography, it means a lot to me. He was wearing those glasses that turn dark in light. They had all ready turned about 1/2 dark  and that may have contributed to the eyes not as sharp. I took some pictures without glasses but then like any constant eye glass user he was squinting and I discarded those pictures.P> Thanks again for giving me your time and advice. Regards, ifti.

Very good portrait with an attractive expression. Color tonality of the face is perfect. Imho, the background green in the middle is too bright and it's drawing the attention of the viewer undesirably. Best regards.

Regards(Bobby).

an impeccable portrait! Sumon's observation about the flashy green is correct... even as i saw the thumbnail I was put-off by it (and very drawn by the portrait, i may add)... you could consider converting this to black and white... it would make an outstanding one!

Beautiful portrait, coolrful and contrast, I like the blur background, very well done.

Cheers.

Very nice shot , beautiful light and tons , good details ..................... Best regards.

Although I am no expert at all on potraiture, I will express my thoughts for what they are worth. The image looks sharp and well composed, the background suitably blurred. I don't find the green off putting in any way. I do however think that the shirt competes for attention with the subjects face, that maybe something less striking would focus the attention more on the subject.  Very well done!

Regards

Alf

Sumon and Rajat Thanks for your critique. Yest green is bright. This is the green lawn and dark green are the distant trees. It did not as bright green in the viewfinder. I need to change my angle or position the subject with only trees in BG. Thanks.

Boby, Alberto and Falak  Thanks for giving me your time and glad you liked it. Falak you are master of portraits and I value your comments.

Alf thank for writing a detailed critique. You are right the shirt has a strong pattern, never even thought of while snapping the pictures. Thank you for your time and am glad you liked it.

Regards, ifti.

For reducing the attention value of the strong design of the shirt, some portion from the bottom may be cropped out. It’ll also enhance the boldness of the face. Best regards.

Yes Sumon, you are right. some crop from below and the eyes still at the 1/3rd line, it looks good. Regards, ifti

I agree with the above comments which point out the better aspects of this portrait and have learned a thing or two from them about how to improve it.  A slight tilting of the subject's head to camera left would align the axis of the head-neck so it was perpendicular to the angle formed by the line running across the shoulders.  It is my understanding that this feature is desirable in a man's head and shoulders portrait though I find, in the process of actual shooting, that I forget this as often as I remember it. (too many other things to think about for a casual portrait shooter like me).  Bottom line:  The positives here far outweigh the negatives and you have a fine result to offer your sitter.  Best, LM.

Len, Thanks for a detailed critique. I  did not know the Vertical rule. I knew  that subject when standing put weight on one foot and tilt of head to left is feminine and to the right is masculine.  Truth is while shooting none of this was in my mind. 

Thanks for giving me your time, Regards, ifti 

Very informative commentary here, as I don't do many portraits unless i can get a bird to pose for me.  Maybe you could get him to smile a bit, that would add.