'The Seer'

This man's unusual look suggests that he has unusual and

interesting ways of looking at people which he does now disavow,

hence the caption 'the seer'. Your ratings, critiques and observatoins

are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly, very critically or

wish to make an observatoin, please submnit a helpful and

constructive comment; please share your photographic knowledge to

help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

When I posted the Request for Critique it was corrected by me to say 'he does NOT disavow' instead of what it says above, which makes for hard and illogical reading.  I did make a good faith effort to get it right but was foiled by software that reported the correction I made had worked, but it didn't. 

Similarly the word observation had its spelling corrected; I can spell and corrected properly, but the system reported the change was accepted but did not do so.

Apologies to those who cannot make sense of my English.  My computer showed the corrections were accepted but you can see it didn't work out that way above.

john

John (Crosley)

I like the composition and I interpret his expression to be one of curiosity mixed with a little distrust maybe. I do like that you have brought out alot of detail but it seems overly processed, the skin tone doesn't seem realistic to me. That aside I think its a great close up.

I do not believe in prophets, seers, clairvoyants, oracles or diviners (whatever you want to call him)  nor see any evidence in this photograph to lead you to believe he is one. Am I missing something? Maybe there is but I do not see over processing re; thomas

 Thanks for the compliment.

 

As to the skin tone, it's all a matter of choice, whether to present skin tones as gauzy or more 'gritty' as here.  This is a man of the street, so his skin tones were presented more lifelike than if he were a society patron who used all sorts of lotions before he encountered each day.

 

I hope you understand that thre's a huge range of choices in processing a photo like this, and with a subject like this a 'soft' presentation can ruin it; a harder presentation can run the risk that someone says 'it's overprocessed' but at the same time it's more lifelike in my experience, or at least depicts 'reality' more closely.

 

One man's 'overprocessing' is another's 'just right' (see comment below).  [Ref.  'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and the old woman who fell asleep in baby bear's bed because she found it 'just right']

 

We all have our feelings of what's 'just right' and although this photo did not meet your expectatoin, it did meet that of Meir, below, apparently, which is the magic of exposing a photo to critique.

 

I am grateful for your well thought out comment and critique.

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

The caption, while referring to the word 'seer' and his unusual look, actually was a reference to the odd placement of his eyeballs on his face -- the man (especially in other photos but here as well), apparently has strabismus (misaligned eyes) and may indeed have diplopia (double vision) which indeed can lead to seeing things differently (not better, just differently) so you are 100% on the money in your critique. 

 

Best to you in your small flat in Israel, free from threats of nuclear annihilatioin, expecially from your Eastern neighbor that is arming itself, but please see if you can wait until after our general election before blowing their nuclear stores to Kingdom Come, so Romney doesn't become president.  

 

If allowed, he'd give the whole Social Security system to Wall Street, dismantle Medicare, take away my pension or reduce it and various other horrible things no matter how much you hate the current White House incumbent.

 

I know you hate Obama, but Romney? 

 

Under his administration I might find myself on an ice floe floating to a frigid death as human surplus on the Arctic Ocean along with the nation's other 'senior surplus' if the Repblican Wall Streeters had their way, I feel.

 

For all I know you're a US citizen and one who votes; after all even though you live in Israel, you've lived and worked inthe USA, and you may have of having dual citizenship. 

 

I think you store your lifetime photo work in the US I seem to recall, though that may be my surmise (you said 'storage locker' and I may have presumed in the US, but may be wrong.)

 

Good health to to you and your descendants, free from harm.

 

In the memorable words of Rodney King 'Can't we all just get along?'

 

Yours is a thoughtful critique well made.

 

;~)))

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

 

 

 

 

Fine shot. Love your spirited exchange with Meir. 

Thanks for the compliment.

 

Also for the compliment on the interchange with Meir.

 

Best to you in the mile high city.

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

Strong character and portrait!

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Thank you for the kind comment.

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

Now that I understand your comments, I appreciate them so much.

 

Thanks.

 

John (Crosley)