face

[Clare Gadsby]

Fabulous portrait. So simple in a way, and yet really effective and powerful

[Catherine Pace]

Beautiful and agree with Clare powerful in its tender directness

[Graeme Stevens]

Excellent portrait.

[Andy]

Very effective and nicely done.

[gazdi]

Wonderful. Sophisticated technique results in a simple, mesmerising portrait. Did you consider using a more coarse film grain?

[john morley]

love this Kali..fav

[Mek]

Lovely

[Saxa van Eijnsbergen]

Free lensing, deliberate blur. A serious, calm gaze. Beautiful portrait.

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Wonderful portrait fav!

[Paula W]

This is wonderful Kali, quite haunting yet beautiful.

[Taffy]

Haunting is the word! Beautifully done.

[Maggiemae]

Slightly out of focus works so well for this close portrait!

[Bill Fenske]

I love the soft focus. Congrats on PP

[Stephanie Swift]

Love the light and shadow and blurism, fav.

[Julie Duncan]

Great photo!

[lisa]

brilliant.

[Edie]

Love it. fav

[kali]

@gazdi haha you made me laugh, i had my lens zoomed so far in that it couldnt focus, then filled the frame any old which way... is that the technique you mean? i did play around with more and less grain on this in silver efx, this was what I felt was the right amount

[kali]

@pistache @gozoinklings @graemestevens @candidzen @mastermek @jack4john @paulaw @overalvandaan @ziggy77 @taffy @maggiemae @bill_fe @tristansmum @juliedduncan @lisamccloskey @edie thank you all for the lovely response to this shot, my youngest son's face is changing a lot now, he is 14, so have to capture the boyish one while I can. it came up good in black and white

[gazdi]

Yet, the composition, lighting and the development cannot be so random.

[Richard Sayer]

As I'm late to the party all that there is to say about this image has already been said... I'll just say Fav.

[kali]

@gazdi i do fiddle quite a bit in post ;;;

[Annie D]

Love the light and shade
the softness captures the youthfulness

[Ashley]

Love this!!

[Caroline]

Beautiful, I love the softness of it...

[Rachel Withey]

Wow - this is amazing. Big fav

[colie (Nichole Stewart)]

Beautifully done. Sort of sweet yet haunting too

[Krista Marson]

This is just really great.