the quality was so crappy because i didnt use my usual camera, but a much inferior one, and because i cropped the head out of the pic at close to 100%. I thought if I converted it to black n white and threw some grain on it, I could get an old movie effect. Anyway, this is part of a viking demon thing in a magic shop in Salem, Massachussetts.
Your choice of subject held LOTS of potential, and I even like your decision to go to black and white. Your image quality is, though, is horrid -- how is this a 95k image? Did you save it from a gif?
The black and white works well. It seems a little pixelated, making me think you either a) cropped it out of a larger picture b)oversharpened or c) didn't focus well and tried to fix it later. There are other reasons, I suppose, but those are the ones I do the most often. :-)
Did you over sharpen this? The teeth and shoulder bones have weird little white dots indicative of Photoshop sharpening, in my limited experience. The eyes are quite nice however.
focus is off, very grainy image. other than that I really like it. Probably could have captured more at the bottom and left off the open space at the top.
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