It's been way too long since I've gotten to photograph a shirtless bearded hunk.

DanOstergren · Jul 25, 2014

Sorry ladies, he bats for my team.

EOS 5D (MKI)
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runnah · Jul 25, 2014

Hey teams don't matter, just as long as you're out there playing and having fun!

I want to like the light pattern on his face so badly but I just can't. I find it distracting. Maybe if it and his face were at the same angle.

But everything else about it is great.

mmaria · Jul 25, 2014

runnah said:
Hey teams don't matter, just as long as you're out there playing and having fun!

oh... I'm just going to sit here and watch two (or even three!) of you play... thanks guys!

keyseddie · Jul 25, 2014

I didn't like the play of light on the tall guy with the great hair. At first. Then for some reason I started to see the value. On this image composition is great as usual. I like the light and shadow here because it accentuates the vulnerability. You are the best I see on this site at eliciting defining emotional elements from their subjects. Yourself and that binga dude explore and push the limits in portraiture.:thumbup:

sashbar · Jul 25, 2014

My impression was you are photographing nothing but shirtless bearded hunks.

tirediron · Jul 25, 2014

I agree with Runnah on the light pattern; that expanded mesh shadow just isn't working for me either. I like everything else about the image, but not that.

limr · Jul 25, 2014

Well, I think these guys are all nuts because I love that light pattern across his face.

What is distracting to me is his hair. Isn't he too young for a combover? Maybe it's just really thick hair or the angle or something, I don't know, but it just looks like a combover to me.

JacaRanda · Jul 25, 2014

To me the story is in the eyes. One in shadow and the other in mostly light. When I split his face vertically in two, each eye shows something totally different.

It's pretty neat that your images tend to make me think more..........

frommrstomommy · Jul 25, 2014

his eyes are dreamy but the pattern of shadows across the face isn't doing it for me in this one. loved the last one you did that was similar, though.

sscarmack · Jul 25, 2014

I agree, your photos always make me wonder and think.

I like it

DanOstergren · Jul 25, 2014

limr said:
Well, I think these guys are all nuts because I love that light pattern across his face.

What is distracting to me is his hair. Isn't he too young for a combover? Maybe it's just really thick hair or the angle or something, I don't know, but it just looks like a combover to me.

Yeah, they're all crazy. Or we are. I think the light is beautiful too (obviously, or I wouldn't have shot it lol).

It's a mo-hawk, not a comb over.