The Eye(brow)s Have It

This is a sreet portrait of a man and his unusual features (I told

my barber to trim my growing eyebrows after I spied this guy walking

by briskly in Odessa, Ukraine). This passerby was walking in the

opposite direction, fast, putting a strain on autofocus under

failing light. Your ratings and critiques are invited and most

welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically, please submit a

helpful and constructive comment/Please share your superior

knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

I love this image and all that it represents mostly a life lived and now some of the burdens of that life are reflected, and you have captured it extremely well. Because of my predilection for B & W i have, once again taken the liberty of converting it to B & W and an I have cropped the top to further enhance the eyebrows. I have made no other changes other than add a bit more contrast.

See what you think. Great image and great moment captured.Marco.

Your attachment is MORE than a workmanlike job -- it's pretty great.

I think you should re-size it additionally for no more than 510 pixels lengthwise and no more than 100 K file size and post it in-line, as most browsers will not be willing to click on a link, however good it is.

I posted this in color because of my philosophy: If color adds to a scene, keep it in, and if it detracts or does not add, desaturate. Here the man's eyes are some of the clearest Paul Newman blue you could imagine and the background (a bus, perhaps, or a shop across the street, or perhaps even a nearer kiosk) is bright yellow, which enhances the blueness of his eye and his coat and scarf.

That's why it was presented in color.

And, although I seldom crop full-frame captures, your cropping does not offend me.

After all, this guy was walking toward me rather briskly, and I was firing away, single shots with my 70~200 V.R. Nikkor and trying to frame at the same time, competing with mirror up blackout as I was trying to frame with my D2X (the mirror blackout is not long but he was ever so close and moving pretty rapidly)

Is was all over in seconds with four or five frames, many of them out of focus because of a poorly-placed focus point.

So much for focus points badly aimed.

Now when I walk around, I am careful either to lock the focus point in the center (or other likely place) or keep an eye on it to see it doesn't 'jump' around as the camera multi-selector strikes my body or my nose -- when I shoot left-eyed -- as I often do.

This guy was just a few feet away, when finally got an in-focus shot that showed his eyebrows in their huge majesty (and) his Paul Newman eyes.

It's technically not a great photo, but it goes into my 'Faces I've Seen' folder, and it's a 'GREAT face' -- truly one of a kind.

Thanks for spending the time and effort.

I hope you do post an in-line version.

John (Crosley)

I am flattered that you have found the B & W version suitable.

Per your invitation here it is, your great photo.

Regards.

It looks nice in-line.

You deserve the credit and people don't click on links.

Anyone browsing should see your in-line version, and I'm glad you posted it.

Ciao,

John (Crosley)