A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Comment by Tiberius:
I had to come back to this one. There is something not working well here. The background (the right side) but at the same time his head angle and the look are together closing a nice circle. He seems concentrated yet void. bump to 7

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Comment by dtremain:
Comment Challenge: This is a great picture. I love the worried look between his eyebrows, the contrast of the background and the man, and that he is not looking directly at the camera. To me, this speaks of an artists' uncertainty of whether his art will be accepted and appreciated.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Comment by Cory:
Well. He looks way more Amish than Irish.

But it's a reasonable portrait, and kinda fits the book. No real story here to compel me, but it's not bad.

With that being said? It's not a great portrait. I'll give a 6, but it's really more of a 5.5 for me.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Comment by RKT:
4...seems more mennonite than James Joyce. Or maybe he's just a hipster. The crop is strange to me, too tight perhaps? I keep wanting to see the whole hat.

Harvest Harmony
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Comment by nygold:
Very nice finish Nikki.

Harvest Harmony
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Comment by dtallakson:
Wonderful shot and great finish. As others have said, beautiful colors and pleasing to the eye PP.

Harvest Harmony
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Comment by blindjustice:
Beautiful final product, excellent finish!

Harvest Harmony
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Comment by grahamgator:
Back to comment. Nicely processed, beautiful colors.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Comment by Abra:
Not having read this book I did a quick Google search and found a few images representing this novel. You have captured the general composition here too so there should be little risk of DNMC voting. I'm not sure how much control you had over the background but I wish the nice blues extended beyond the right hand side of the image. The details captured are very good and I quite like his expression. 6.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Comment by tvsometime:
Good enough as a serious young portrait, but there's nothing to hint at his artistic side. Photographically, although the skin tones work well enough, the background colors are muddy the forms have no clear compositional purpose and therefore become distracting. I think black & white treatment could have been much stronger and eliminated the color issues. 5