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Male Beauty in Art

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This is my first proper portrait shot, and I'm pretty pleased with the result. This is the same old guy from previous photos (here and here) - he seems to sit in the same place most days, and I'd taken some candid shots of him before. But today I decided to try and get some portrait shots from him. So I sat went and sat down on the wall about a metre and a half from him.

HIM: Afternoon.
ME: Hi there, beautiful evening!
I then sat in silence for the next minute or so
ME: I'm terribly sorry to disturb you, but I walk past and see you here most days. I'm a photographer and I wonder if I could take some pictures of you?
HIM: O no no, I don't want to have my picture taken. Why would you want to take a picture of me?
ME: Because I like to take pictures of interesting people and I think that you would make for a really interesting photo.
HIM: Oooo, no, I've not shaved or anything. What are you doing with the photos?
ME: That's all right, it adds to your character, I think that you'll look really well, really show your character in a shot. I'm using the photos to add to my portfolio.
HIM: Well, I'm not posing or anything
ME: That's all right, just be yourself.
HIM: O, ok then
I then proceded to fire off 5 or 6 frames from varying angles. I thanked him, I told him I'll sort him out with a print for his trouble (wouldn't do that for every portraiture subject, but seeing as he's my first, and he looks like he would appreciate a friendly gesture).


'Easy' as that. It was difficult to pluck up the courage, but I think getting over that first one will make it easier in future. Many thanks to Dave at Chromasia and Jamey Howard for their inspiration to take some people shots.

PP: Conversion to black and white using Robert Carr technique. Bumped contrast slightly using curves, and applied a dark brown tone layer. I then increased the sharpness using a high pass filtered layer blended using soft light. Burned the background to remove focus from that and provide for contrast, and dodged the detailing on the shadowed side of the man's face.
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~Mafin10 May 28, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
heyy ^^ first this is a reeaallly nice shot.. and then i wanted to ask permission to draw this..

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~Duncan-Seven Mar 16, 2011
I really liked your picture and draw for my drawing class representation, could upload it to my Deviantart :D

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Mood: Joy *MrPigman Jan 14, 2011  Student Photographer
Great portrait
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*honeytofla Nov 21, 2010
Your deviation was featured in my journal here [link]
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~Dawson30534 Nov 19, 2010
Top shelf. I love this shot.
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~mikegoulty Nov 7, 2010
Hey,
Your lovely shot has been featured in the :iconportraitclub: journal, which can be found here : [link]
Kind regards,
Mike

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~Kippson Oct 28, 2010
Great shot, I'm definitely gonna have to take some people shots now too. I'll let you know when I do, just need to find the right person.

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Mood: Wow! *SetsiAngelSailor Oct 2, 2010
featured - [link]

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~Zaharaa Sep 27, 2010
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Your AMAZING work has been featured in the first group News Article [link]
Please fav/heart the article so we can get as much exposure to the wider DA audience as possible :heart:

Thank you for your contribution and please keep them coming, Im honoured that you are a part of TheMaleSoul.

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~Zaharaa Aug 26, 2010
WOW this is amazing!!

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TheMaleSoul is now on Facebook [link] Stay connected!! :eager:
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