self portrait by kali66

self portrait


for the artist challenge, and also one night stand- black and white
Apart from his wonderful street photography Saul Leiter took some quite beautiful black and white portraits, eg. here http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FOXyH7FOH2U/TsDfbFFKjbI/AAAAAAAAE-g/axDrHeq3zi8/s640/Leiter_Saul_jean.jpg
love this portrait. very nice grainy processing
December 2nd, 2013  
Great self portrait, I can see the resemplance but still you made it yours
December 2nd, 2013  
Fantastic self-portrait. A Fav!
December 2nd, 2013  
Love it, the processing is superb. Definitely a fav
December 2nd, 2013  
Looked at the link. There is more emotion in yours.
December 2nd, 2013  
Fabulous shot and processing!
December 2nd, 2013  
wonderful self portrait
December 2nd, 2013  
Fabulous, love the graininess. works very well in B&W.
December 2nd, 2013  
@abhijit @susale @davidorman @writingdays @roseolivia @soren @pennyp thankyou very much, I did a lot of work on this, and am pleased how it came out. David always a bit strange when someone favs one of my self portraits lol, but many thanks
December 2nd, 2013  
@kali66 I can see why it'd seem a bit 'strange' -- but I think you've got the pose, composition and processing spot on here!
December 2nd, 2013  
Love the light and the processing!
December 2nd, 2013  
This has a sombre feel to it which the processing accentuates.
December 2nd, 2013  
This is very nicely processed. Super execution all round!
December 2nd, 2013  
Love the processing - the light and grain work really well
December 2nd, 2013  
Rather beautiful portrait, I love the light and grain. fav
December 2nd, 2013  
Wonderful procssing.
December 3rd, 2013  
beautiful poignant portrait
December 3rd, 2013  
I love the gritty effect! Beautiful!
December 3rd, 2013  
You are so good at this sort of portrait. Love it.
December 3rd, 2013  
Great selfie. I love the low key and focus.
December 3rd, 2013  
has a ghostly melancholoy look - have to take a look at this guy's work now
December 3rd, 2013  
Wonderful selfie - love the graininess! fav
December 3rd, 2013  
Sem
love this, checked out the original and you nailed it.
December 3rd, 2013  
beautiful self portraite. like your processing very much. rather sad.
December 4th, 2013  
So great! I've been focusing on trying to get street for that (unfortunately haven't had much luck) but he did do really beautiful portraits as well! Very inspiring
December 5th, 2013  
faved this as soon as I saw it. Love everything about it but the light on the hands is just an extra bonus for me :)
December 10th, 2013  
@frida thankyou very much Frida
December 10th, 2013  
Fascinating and gritty in a lovely way - I'd love to know how this was processed.
December 11th, 2013  
@mrsc19 ooooh, um if I remember rightly it was quite dark and grainy to begin with, I use Nik colourfex filters to convert to black and white and probably fiddled with it, added a blur vignette and did a bit of burn work around the bottom of the hands so they stayed in the frame ... if that makes sense
December 11th, 2013  
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