When I was walking down the other side of the street (Telegraph Avenue), and past this fellow in a blue-sequined top hat sitting in a doorway, he said "Hey, I like your camera," so it only seemed fitting that I would try and capture him for this challenge. Somewhat unfortunately, he was sitting in a shadowed doorway, but at least the light was pretty even.
The challenge description seems to require an image in the style of a formal portrait, while still being taken in a candid situation. I shot this from across the street -- waiting for a break in the traffic (both pedestrian and automobile), and for him to look in my direction. My goal was to make it look like an old-fashioned, hand-tinted print from maybe the late 1800's -- I didn't try to "correct" the noise/grain or soft-focus ...
-Handheld, Manual mode, Auto WB
-RGB Curve
-Create feathered oval selections
-RGB Curves through selections to vignette/fade background
-RGB and Blue/Yellow Curve through inverted selection to adjust contrast of subject
-Hue/Sat/Lightness through inverted selection to desaturate reds and greens
-Crop
-Resize
-Local Dodging/Burning and local sharpening to eyes/facial features
-A little cloning to restore color texture to blown highlight on forearm
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 278KB
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Interesting choice of going with the purple tones. IMHO, I think if you had gone with a sepia treatment, it may work with the grain for an antique look. Anyways, this popped out for me cuz the guy looks like a modern day Billy the Kid [in New Orleans with the beads :) ] Good luck with the voting.
The treatment has something of an old time hand colored appearance to it. The eyes are a bit oversharp and appear a little out of place with the rest of the shot.
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