Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by Chandi:
Gritty/Grungy... Wonderful processing. Nice lighting - love that back light giving a definition of the outline.

Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by Tiny:
Super portrait,like the crop very much.

Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by bmartuch:
I like the hard lighting on this. Nice job.

Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by MikeO:
Super portrait, pin sharp!

Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by tanguera:
Beautiful portrait. Love the desat.

Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by monkeypirate:
Nice gritty texture of the face and hair. I also love the color choice of browns and deep gray-purples

Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by Dphoto:
Intense, tack sharp, great contrast.... Well composed portrait.

Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by geinafets:
This shows great technical control of lighting, especially the fine rim light on his face and shoulder. His expression is beautiful because it does truly look genuine. To be a bit picky, there is a bit of harsh clipping in the blacks showing on my monitor, and the sharpening is a little over-done for my taste. I would have also preferred if less of his face was cropped on the left side; I can't seem to verbalize quite why I feel that way besides saying that it feels like an uncomfortable place to crop someone's face--though maybe the uncomfortableness works with the image's emotion. It's nice to crop close when the model has such a telling expression, but because of the particular emotion showed, I wonder if it would have worked better with more negative space for another tangible/physical representation of hurt, pain, worry, anxiety, and/or isolation.

While I'd consider this image to be on the right side of the bell curve for portraits, for me to bump it up any higher, I would need to see something more than just a beautiful, technically sounds visual representation of the subject at a specific point in time. I want to see some kind of story, some kind of deeper insight into the subject. Basically, I think this is a great image, but I know what kind of talent lurks beneath the surface of the photographers on DPC, and I want to push that talent to its limit : )

Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by Paul:
Exceptional portrait.

Otis - Honestly
by smardaz

Comment by NiallOTuama:
Love this.
Great great portrait!