In Raw: Adjusted Fill Light +45, Black +4, Brightness +74, Contrast +99, Clarity +100. Highlights +100, Lights +8, Darks +9, Shadows -39. Saturation: Red +5, Orange -36, Yellow -100. Luminance: Red -17, Orange +17, Yellow +21. Camera profile: red +3, Saturation -75. All adjustments made to whole photo.
Converted to PS
In PS: USM increased to about 300. Got rid of a few hot pixels and dust. Cropped, resized, and small black border added. Resized again.
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Place: 108 out of 294 Avg (all users): 5.5765 Avg (commenters): 6.5000 Avg (participants): 5.4085 Avg (non-participants): 5.6970 Views since voting: 655 Views during voting: 244 Votes: 170 Comments: 6 Favorites: 0
Great photo, the tones, the processing and the crop all work so well with his expression. The title is annoying, it's too obvious and a feels superficial for such a strong emotive photo.
I didn't need the title to get the full poignance of the image. Remarkable portrait. The lower lip breaks the circle of the hat brim, symbolizing whatever has broken.
this is a lovely image, but i'm afraid it's not really a high contrast image. high contrast has a limited tonal range of high and low tones, with very few intermediate tones. the ultimate high contrast is pure black and white, no greys. the more greys or intermediate tones, the less high contrast it is.
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