not sure if i agree that his face has enough expression to carry that much dead space. if the background was much more pertinent to his expression (or just plain beautiful) then i'd think it'd warrant the use of real estate and underexposure/silhouette of his face. but in this case whatever was there is all bokeh-ed out, so it really doesn't imo. perhaps in a series of photos which builds the environment, this would work. but on it's own it isn't really working for me.