First ever portrait study - and I had to be the model! Really driven by the work of Martin Schoeller although there is so much asymmetry in the face that I wonder if this will work!
Post processing:
* used healing tool to remove some "noise" on my skin :-)
* burnt out some of the background
* lightened and saturated the eyes
* desaturated the overall image
* cropped to kind of Schoeller template
* sized to max 720 pixels
* smart sharp - added the grit I wanted
* saved for web
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Goofy title, but i can forgive that. Good face and good composition and setup. I think I would have liked this better if the contrast were higher and perhaps the brightness a little less. With so much light, some of the personality (which derives from light and shadow on wrinlkes) has been lost.
The way this is desaturated creates a slightly disturbing effect. I'm not sure I really like the saturation on your eyes being so different from the rest.
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