I like the idea here, but the 'shirtless' aspect feels a bit odd; not from any moral sense, but just because it doesn't seem like something you would nomrally do.
I like the idea here, but the 'shirtless' aspect feels a bit odd; not from any moral sense, but just because it doesn't seem like something you would nomrally do.
@tirediron He does all the time, it was hot out today...I came home from work & I always travel will my little Fuji when I saw him making "sawdust" to fix a little hole he has on the wall or furniture not sure...he always tries to keep busy...so I took a few shots before I went upstairs lol
Although, the funny thing is he hates the air conditioner, he rather be shirtless & complain about how hot it is....
I'm seeing this on my Android phone, and I think it looks a little bit too dark. I would agree with tired iron that the shirtless aspect seems a bit unusual to me.
The shirt off doesn't bother me, been there done that, and as I understand the narrative this was a shot in passing (neither planned nor posed) of a man who was working on a hot day. Under the circumstances I find it neither odd nor unusual. He wasn't in public, but in the confines of his private space. Come up on my mountain unexpectedly in the heat of summer, you'll likely see me in shorts and no shirt if outside working. If he were in his prime years I have to wonder if the comments would have been different.
As to the technical, my question is, was this merely a snapshot in passing or did you make a conscious effort to compose/shoot for it to be considered for serious critique? Sometimes I snap the shutter just to record a slice of time, there's nothing wrong with that, but critique of an unplanned quick snap isn't really productive, because the image is what it is. That said the issue isn't so much under exposed (less then 1/4 stop) as it is with the white and black point. The tonal range has been severely crushed such that without white or black points the whole image becomes muddled gray.
Fyi: I like the sign in the background. My father-in-law's name was Alfred but as a young boy family started calling him Tom (after a mule on the farm) because he was so stubborn,the name stuck. He and I fished and hunted together for many years.
I like the idea here, but the 'shirtless' aspect feels a bit odd; not from any moral sense, but just because it doesn't seem like something you would nomrally do.
If he were in his prime years I have to wonder if the comments would have been different.
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