The Shoveller

[jerome.oneil]

There is a good story about this man, he is basically our community caretaker. Not only working a full time job as an engineer, he volunteers his time as a councilman, firefighter, baseball coach, playground association, shovels show for those who can't, mows lawns and etc. Not sure where he finds the time.

I thought the color image lacked showing the roughness of this gentleman, so I thought I'd try converting the image to B/W? I corrected the exposure of the RAW image before converting, I desaturated, increase contrast and gamma a little, then adjusted brightness.

Can you critique the B/W treatment, and the contrast?




Olympus E-520
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 58 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Did not fire

Thanks,
Jerome

[Barry Jackson]

Good image and contrast.

I would darken the white area on the right bottom about the collar area so it is darker than anything else in the area. That would keep my eye from wanting to drift down to it.

I wondered if the eyes area could have been lightened just a bit.

[bookloveraz]

Nice shot, and I like the b&w. My only thing would be to brighten up the face a bit, and then boost the contrast a tad. I feel like there is just too much gray.

[Digital Colodion]

I like it just like that but to enhance it the rouughness you're referring to add a little more structure with more contrast in certan areas and try to play around with some very very light cold tonality, some vignette and maybe some noise just some ideas. Cheers

[Jay Elle Eff]

I bet this man has a thousand stories to tell...great photo. I agree, maybe a little bit more contrast, but overall I think it looks great.