CONTEMPLATIVE

[Julian de'Courcy]

A portrait.


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STITHIANS SHOW by JuliandeCourcy, on Flickr

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Excellent, Julian. Such an expressive face. Well caught.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Well done Julian. I'm thinking that in each wrinkle in his face there is a chapter of an interesting life and you caught the whole book.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Thank you Both Rob and Glenn. On reflection the processing is a bit heavy. With a revisit the tones could be improved. I have been using a new raw converter . Experimenting a bit.

 

[Pete Askew]

I like the pose and distant look you have captured here Julian but I, like you, think the processing is a bit too heavy. The face seems a bit flat and combined with the 'laughter lines' gives a sort of HDR effect.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

I always defer and respect the artist...this time I respectfully defer my disagreement with you Julian.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I like the pose and distant look you have captured here Julian but I, like you, think the processing is a bit too heavy. The face seems a bit flat and combined with the 'laughter lines' gives a sort of HDR effect.

I agree, yet his life's scares actually were extreme, even in the raw file it does lean toward HRD look, because of it. The reason he stood out were these features. His tan was very orange as well for real, I wondered at the time if that gave more clarity and over cooked the detail. No idea.
Digital photography eh, must try this new film stuff that is in vogue, far more respectful.

Now I can tick of the deep grained soul .

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I always defer and respect the artist...this time I respectfully defer my disagreement with you Julian.

I'd rather neve r take responsibility but in this case of course It is all learning process for me, partly trying things out, it is not until you put something out there, taking a more detached view, you see things that first time you avoided seeing.
Wouldn't it be great to have a pic that completely satisfied.