Many thanks to my first official model, Andre. He sure looks tough but really a sweetheart! Going for the urban, hip hop, Rapper 50 cent look...I thought it was successful. The hard part was choosing which shot to enter, I had so many! Thanks Andre (and Andre's Dad, Danny for setting up the shoot!).
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Woo Hoo! Top Ten works for me! Yeah, I know, there wasn't 600 entries but still the same, I'm happy to be on Page One! And, I gots me a little star by my entry****!
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I agree with the Dentist - perhaps moving him away from the wall and shooting along a wall a bit to abstract and deepen the background would help? The figure looks great though, and a top ten - I don't have one so who am I to talk! ;)
Very good challenge rendition, facial expression and contrast with the t-shirt. There's something about it that I don't really like... I think it's the background with it's dominating mid-tone gray.
The photo technicals are good, lighting etc... but the photo is too clean i guess is how i would describe it. The shirt, hat are spotless and whiter then white, the wall looks like it was just built or one of those pull down backdrops. The model has a tough guy pose but the feeling in the pic contradicts that and doesn't work for me.
what a great stare - that is one tough dude! I am not a big fan of the brick wall background, and it seems that there is a bit of a heavy hand with the neat image/ noise ninja
good portrait and nice light and bw conversion. although it does shout ghetto, it doesnt portray street smarts. however, it looks a bit too clean and neat to be ghetto, perhaps a different background would help. crop seems a bit to short on bottom as his elbow is cutoff. 7
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