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Published: 2006-11-30 21:01:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1414; Favourites: 47; Downloads: 3
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Whoah, how do you get the contrasts to be so ... ... ... good?
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these crinkles........
OH these crinkles
It makes me think about beauty.
What is beauty? my own feeling about it: beauty is, when all the joy of life is reflected in a face a sound a smile a place, anything alive. This is why I find some old people so beautiful. great laughing crinkles.
Unfortunately, I see that the beauty ideals vanish, replaced by sex-symbols, allowing only young perfect-body girls. Immaculate and boring .Very sad.
I see that you have an eye for the imperfect, for the intresting, for the living. My prof used to say: "ugly-beautiful is always better than simlpy beautiful". Not only this picture, all of your work is very honest somehow. Very touchable.
really, it leaves a warm feeling
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I love that you use the word crinles......it is so apt!!!!
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really? my english is propably not the best one............. but itΒ΄s a funny, very positive sounding word somehow
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This has sush a surreal feel to it... I just can't believe the matte texture!
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This is just brilliant mate, sorry I suck too bad to elaborate any further
Dunno if you care, but isn't it kinda cool that =larafairie added this to her favourites? Seeing that she has like 4.4 million pageviews or something...
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A lot of these photos look like old shots from the 1900's. (When teeth and hair were bad!).
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still are here.....
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Amazing technique! I would like to learn it. One day when I will have the money
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hey hey,
just out of curiousity..did you happen to use a fliter or photoshop for this shot?
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If I may ask...what do you do in post processing? Your portraits are absolutely stunning. This pic is my favourite, as he looks like a roman statue. Bravo!
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How do you get the colors to look so great like this?
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Wow, the clarity's amazing. Lovey tones. Great portrait.
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very interesting man, as I can see, he knows much 
What kind of editing was here?
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looking at this i get the feeling he is a truthful, hard working, good man.
i love photos like these .. where you photograph everyday people and capture what they're all about.
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No he is a lazy bastard who doesn't clean them properly, but he retired last month so better view of life to come - at least through my windows I hope!
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Tell me this is HDR. This vibrancy and detail of this image are too fantastic to be otherwise. Gorgeous image, great character. Oh, that I could have such an interesting window cleaner.
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no it's not HDR - i hadn't even heard of it when i took this - I said in a comment on another pic that i have recently tried it, but i can't get it to look right on people even when i process RAWs out at differing expos!
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By "look right", you mean the colors are off or what? I've been experimenting with HDR as well and it's definitely not and easy technique to master; that is, it's takes a lot of experimenting. I have no advice because I suck at it.
Regardless, this image still rocks my face off.
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yes, the colours and tonality are too much of a movable feast......like how so many sliders in photomatix and any one can make a massive difference - i supposr there is no right or wrong, but I will keep practising...after all I have seen some amazing stuff done with it.
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"suppose there is no right or wrong"
Exactly. Me too.
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Look at that amazing color! Wow..your work is just wonderful!
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my window cleaner looks slightly different... 
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