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one of the best portraits i have seen here on DA. His wrinkles are pages of an extremely long novel.
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His face has so much charachter, great for a black and white. Nicely done shot, great cropping and contrast.
Quirk Out
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you can literally see the live in this face. every wrinkle and every fold has it's history... such a great shot!
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great work man, this type of photography always works.
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this is one of the best portraits ive seen in a while. i love his expression.. just makes me think so much about the character. wat is he thinking. wat is he feeling. well done. very thoughtfull photograph
ana
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Wow I love this! The texture of his skin make me think of leather, it make me just want to rub my hand on his face. The shadows that the wrinkles make contrast very nicely with the rest of his face. The clarity of this shot is unbelievable! +FAV!
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It is obvious that you have a great zoom lens
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I had missed this in my watch "on the way through" so I am SOOOOOOO glad I've found it now.
This is just such an amazing development - can I assume you sweat the development of this? I just mixed my most hardcore greyscale development yet, and I look at this and am STUNNED. The balance of detail against the highlights, and the quality of shadow exposure is awesome.
Your angle and focus, and his expression and visage are perfect. His intensity and presence-of-mind are so riveting.
The glasses, incidentally, are entirely right and positive, both symbolically and for the extra shadows cast across his face.
I have a personal metaphor that feels illustrated here. (I.e., this isn't objective, it's subjective.) It's that in the stress of life sometimes I feel as a blast of hot air is blowing across my face - I call it "facing into the blast furnace." And I grit my teeth and try to imagine bearing that, and even imagining that blast of air as enriching, the sensual feel on my face. Your composition and his expression connote that to me, as if merely his presence of mind against all he's faced and facing is exactly why he's lived this long and accumulate all his fortitude.
So this really speaks to me, emotionally, and, again, stuns me photographically. Just awesome altogether. It's thrilling to see a portrait image so unusual and exquisite as this.
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I like the texture that iluminacion gives the skin, this gives to much character and expression him to the photo!
Good work.
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this is beautiful! i love the way you cropped this picture. i love the b/w and the sharpness of focus!
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Amazing -- you did a great job with this one. 
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This is a really great portrait shot. I like the use of space and how the face is cropped in an odd way. It really brings the focus right in on the eyes, nose and mouth and accentuates the shadows on the face. You have captured so much personality in this shot with the use of dramatic lighting, interesting composition and chosing person with very distinguishing facial features. This one really seems to want to tell a story. Outstanding work.
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absolutely stunning, and almost perfect. The dark spot on his nose is odd.
nevertheless, one REALLY amazing photograph!
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marvellous work. If I took this I would have also called it wisdom. Great stuff
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What a great portrait. I love the composition, the negative space is really effective in this one. The level of detail in his face is just awesome... Beautiful work.
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Beautiful portrait. Great detail. Good contrast. Nice framing.
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awesome shot again... the texture of his face is outstanding
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amazing textures, you can just see the years of learning in his face the wisdom he must have. Nice
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Wonderfully well-taken and well-composed shot. The clarity in addition to the feel of black & white photography makes this picture of an otherwise normal man something extraordinary! Well done!
P.S. I've got an edited version of this as my wallpaper back in my dorm (I just scaled it to fit my desktop and added a black background to fill in the empty space)
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Wonderful detail and clarity. This is a great photo!
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Great shot!
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wonderful sharpness, wonderful tones, wonderful composition in the frame, wonderful shot!
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superb, i love the expression, and how youve captured the face so well...
Arvin Sloan from alias. aka Ron Rifkin
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Gorgeous portrait shot - I'm jealous
I'm a big fan of shots like this - you've used a great light source, just look at all the features and detail that has been brought out in the face! The way the light brings out the curves, lines, hair and breaks through the glasses is unreal.
There is something magical about this photo - it has the power to bring a smile to anyones face!
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Great portrait ... really great !!!!
Details are stunning ..
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Whoa. That's awesomely clear!!
Great work my friend.
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ooooOOOoooo... this is one of the best portraitures i've seen in a while. I don't know whether its the grimace or the way you set him out of the background that really gets me, but this is definitely worthy of a
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wow. beautiful capture...love the contrast.
imho i guess you should'nt have asked him to put on the glasses...but nevertheless an awesome capture.
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I really like this image, David. You did a great job with this
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This is a great shot, and I really like it in b&w. His face creates wonderful textures! Very good lighting!
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I love this hon... the texture and detail revealed in his skin... the harshness of the lighting... adore the crop, too, though half of me wishes to see a head-shoulders shot.
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wow! the light hits your subject so well! i love how close youa re to him, and the shade of the background contrasts really well. nice shot!
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Wow, love the detail and the angle. The black-white-grey gives a very wise, old look to it....
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the glasses are not too modern, a wise guy wouldn't want to look stupid with old fashioned glasses
great job.
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i like the detail and the composition...
i don't really like the glasses, i think they are too modern for your title... of course a name of the rose -style thing would be stupid too, so nevermind...
did you mask the background? there are some strange outlines...
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