Pensive

[mugge]

This image was taken at a Vietnamese Luna New Year. The gentleman was a performer in an opera waiting to get on. It was my luck that he was standing against a white cloth backdrop. C&C most welcome.

Pensive by Ole Hansen, on Flickr

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[bje07]

Nice shot, but I think you can improve the background to go to pure white.

[pschlute]

Terrific capture. I also would touch up that background to remove the creases.

[Manfred M]

A very strong capture Ole. In addition to Peter's comment about the wrinkles I'd like to point out a couple of other minor issues.

You've cropped this to a square format. Is there any more material along the bottom of the frame? The elbow is cut just a touch too tight and if you have it in the original, I would leave change the crop a touch to include it.

Profiles are one of the most challenging poses to capture in this type of photography, as there is very little margin for error. The head needs to be in just about perfect orientation so that the nose is parallel to the sensor plane. A bit too much under rotation and the features behind the nose (mostly eye and eyebrow) looks strange and too much (as your have here) the back of the head becomes to prominent.

Finally, I would look at more of a 4 :5 portrait aspect ratio. There is just a touch too much negative space on the right hand side of the image.

As I said, strong image with some minor issues.

[Geoff F]

There seems to be a small red spot in the middle of his cap which seems strange? Otherwise, I like this image.

[Stagecoach]

Good capture Ole, and I agree with some of the comments already made.

One additional observation I'll make is the 'colouring' of the red in the shirt, it appears unnaturally pink in places. I have come across similar especially with bright coloured sports clothing.

[xpatUSA]

Good capture Ole, and I agree with some of the comments already made.

One additional observation I'll make is the 'colouring' of the red in the shirt, it appears unnaturally pink in places. I have come across similar especially with bright coloured sports clothing.

The "unnaturally pink" appeared because the shirt is over-saturated over much of it's area:



This can occur if someone sets saturation to their satisfaction in a wide-gamut color space and then saves as sRGB. For red colors, the green gets bottomed first - leaving only purples which don't look right ...

Here's a red rose suffering the same fate:

[DanK]

Very informative. I really should get raw therapy.


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[mugge]

P1191106-Edit-2-Edit by Ole Hansen, on Flickr

[pschlute]

Small amendments have a big affect. I love this image.

[bristolmono]

I wouldn't worry about the red shirt problem but I would remove the creases on the background and the red dot on the hat.
Great shot.

[Manfred M]

Just playing around with the crop and reds in the clothing a bit... Also a tiny bit of mid-point pull down.