i kept still... but he moved on.........
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Comment by honikum:
:) beautiful..

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Comment by thedarkpose:
Hey thanks everyone for voting and leaving some very helpful suggestions... this was my first entry to the website and one of the very first few pics i have ever clicked using an SLR!...
as far as the editing goes, this is again the first time i used photoshop in my life! so i am still not too unhappy about my 78th position! i hope to submit sumthin better the next time.. thanks much to all!

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Comment by DrKDB:
I really like this one. Some of it has gotten blown out but I think the range of tones is very good. I didn't want this to end without letting you know that I thought it was a very, very good image. Good job.

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Comment by view360:
Good, powerful shot & well cropped. very well done!

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Comment by shaundp:
good character study

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Comment by posthumous:
stirring portrait. 8

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Comment by MilesW:
The highlights are just a little blown for me, but a fantastic character shot!

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Comment by witam:
I have looked at this for a while before commenting/voting. You have used a very harsh contrast and i suspect it was your intention. By doing so the clothing is overexposed. I do feel it brings out better the darkness of the skin. The other side is that you have very deep shadows which result in losing the outer eye definition on the eye to the left, which doesn't look good.
Also the beard is overexposed which i personally don't like because you have lost the feel of the hairs here and as such lost the roughness here that you have created by the harsh contrast everywhere else. Overall i think the choice of hard contrast fits, but i would have liked to have seen it used more focused, so it wouldn't be there where it detracts from the feel of the image.
vote:6

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Comment by smyk:
very cool shot but way to over processed and consequently u lose lots of the details in the face and beard. could have been so much better in my opinion
:(. 6

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Comment by daddyLonglegs:
Very nicely done!