To be honest, without the back story it isn't much of a picture IMHO. I find the fact that his hands and the top of his head are cut off distracting. Get closer (or a longer lens perhaps), to focus on his face (and it's a face with character in spades :-), or step back to get more of the environment or maybe a portrait orientated shot would work better? I dunno.
Anyway, it sounds like it may be the first of many. Cheers, Dave On 1/7/07, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charley sits in front of the El Cerrito Post Office almost every day. Over > a period of months I've come to know a little about him, and have sometimes > helped him out. > > Today I had my camera handy - it was in my hand rather than in the Domke > case - and when he saw it he became quite interested, which led to a little > more back story. We sat and talked a bit about his past, about photography > in general, about Nikon and Canon in particular, and it seemed like today > would be the perfect day to start working on his portrait. This is the > first snap, but there will be more to come. He wasn't feeling well today - > he has emphysema and he was suffering from a bad cold or flu as well. So, > forgive the quick grab - I'm posting it here as an introduction to an > interesting and well-liked local character. A lot of people who frequent > the post office look out for him, and care enough to know a little (or a > lot) about him. > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/charley.html > > Tech Details: istDS, K30/2.0 @ f/5.6, ISO 200, 1/100 sec -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
