Chris Calohan II
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Ricky Steele, Artist: Chris Calohan
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Ricky Steele, Artist: Chris Calohan
Maris Rusis
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Beautifully delineated portrait but what an unsympathetic, obtrusive background. But you knew that. There is an aesthetic afoot here that I would like to understand better.
Antonio Correia
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I like your portrait Chris. The character of the man is present with lots of details but I think the white line at the bottom is a bit too strong.
I am sure if you could clone that area as well as the white spot at the top would benefit the image quite a lot.
You could also try to give more "room" to the whole portrait with a bit more area in front of him and at the bottom of the crop. You will have to try to see if it is better than the way you have presented it.
I am sure if you could clone that area as well as the white spot at the top would benefit the image quite a lot.
You could also try to give more "room" to the whole portrait with a bit more area in front of him and at the bottom of the crop. You will have to try to see if it is better than the way you have presented it.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Ricky Steele, Artist: Chris Calohan
If this was hanging in an art gallery, I's assume that you chose to build the white bar and the white blob into this carefully focused portrait. After all, it's already no accident that you excluded the back of his head. With that definitive approach proven, I must accept the white elements intrusions as contributing to how you want the image to be read. So I'd imagine that this man has confronted and overcome many obstacles and that he's not afraid of taking on challenges.
If the white events were indeed artifacts, then they could have been removed in Photoshop. That's such a trivial task to most folk here, so I 'd take the picture as being more edgy than most portraits, where the photographer steps back and allows more of the subject to enter the frame with there being no doubt as to the ranking of sentiments.
Asher