See this is a good shot Charlie!! Congrats..
The voters nailed you because it isnt a portrait, but u know that now :))
But low votes do not neccesarily mean a shot is bad...I like it..a little edit and it would be great!
Typically I love street scenes.. but for portraits I look for more detail in the person who is the focus of the composition.. even if the fiddle were more detailed.. great idea though.. I do love environmental portraits.
I feel the fiddler is a little lost with so many other people and the busy background - if he had been looking towards the camera it might have helped. Perhaps the shot here is from knee level where the group of people are on the left - looking up at the fiddler to catch his face with the case and money in the foreground?
Man, it just doesn't fit my definition of a "portrait". Too far away, too many other distracting things to look at. If you didn't mention fiddler, I would have suspect I was suppose to look at the closest guy (the one on the right walking away). I would never have even noticed the fiddler (or figured out that he had an instrument in his hands).
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