50 mono portraits at 50mm : No. 35 : Outside His Dad's Gallery

This young man was stood outside his Dad's Art Gallery in Nottingham,

The gallery has some paintings on easels outside the gallery and this young man was drumming up custom.

I had a little chat with him and then asked if I could take his photo. He said "yes, I get quite a few requests for photos".

I could have done with a different backdrop to the shot, but the issue with taking street portraits is you are essentially stuck with where you are.

I attempted to adjust highlights / contrast / shadows / brightness to ensure his fabulous hair can be seen.

This started as a RAW file, edited with Rawtherapee with an Ilford XP2 film.

I shook his hand and thanked him for the shot and off I went to find Jane who was bargain hunting in M&S.

Hope you like my portrait number 35 in my series

BTW: Rawtherapee is a lossless editor. It achieves this by having some "sidecar files" that sit alongside your original file. The sidecar file tells the editor how to manipulate the image whenever you open it.

It does of course apply compression once you save as jpeg.

If you are geeky, the contents of my sidecar file are shown below:

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[Nicole]

Love the hair!

[Hazel]

Hehe - I'm definitely not geeky - in the slightest! But I do like your portrait and think this young man's hair must increase his height at least a few inches. Hope Jane got some good bargains in M&S!
p.s. I thought a sidecar was something that somebody sat in alongside a motor bike - but that's probably old -fashioned......

[The Intermittent Photographer aka Blue Rose]

Cor - that is a lot of info - it took me ages to find the comment box!! I only use canon dpp that has come with the camera. If I ever get time one summer holiday I might try learning something else.

Meanwhile that is a fantasic portrait and a fav. Do people ever want a copy of the photo you took?

[Kerri]

Great portrait

[PhotoCrazy]

Wonderful portrait

[Ali P]

Love the shot! Oh how I miss the M&S foodhall! And you understand all the tech stuff???????? Not me, I just scrolled down as quick as poss :)

[Phil Howcroft]

@alinz thanks Ali, glad you approve

@photographycrazy thank you very much

@kerristephens cheers kerri :)

@bluerose15 I printed one for one of my football programme sellers. He didn't ask for it, I just thought he might like it. Other than that , no, I just take the pic and thank them. I have thought about getting some little "contact cards printed" and give them to them and ask them to email me if they want a copy.

@quietpurplehaze No bargains in M&S today Hazel, I am pleased you like my portrait :)

@nicoleterheide it is very impressive hair nicole :)

[Maggiemae]

@alinz I'm with you Ali! It must be difficult getting the right settings but not taking too long with a street photo! Amazing hair - how does he comb it??

[elkehochban]

Fab shot, love his hair!

[Gena Pegg]

WOW...not "geeky" here. Above my paygrade. All I know is the photo is great....your portraits always are!

[CarlasBWPortraits]

Fantabulous!

[Pat Knowles]

Does all that sting actually mean something to you Phil or are you just pretending.....I have rumbled you! Ha ha you are definitely a geek!!
Lovely portrait though!

[Phil Howcroft]

@happypat LOL Pat, I once had big hair, although not this big !!

@sidecar cheers carlita :)

@eyesmile thanks gena, you are very kind with your praise

@timandelke thanks elke :)

@maggiemae thanks maggie, glad you like my shot

[Matt Clendon]

Does he ever have great hair. Yep, he does. He'll be growing fruit in that tree by summer. Great portrait, Phil.

[Allison Williams]

I think the background works well. Very interesting and unique portrait.

[Annie D]

What a lovely face
I am obviously not geeky as all those sidecar thingies meant nothing to me haha then maybe I am geeky as I did look lol

[Judith Greenwood]

Ha - I think that's the longest ever post! Must be funny being a repeat model for photographers. Have you had a similar situation before? I have a sense of déjà vu!

[Vera]

Very cool subject and the photo. I've never come up to a stranger yet with a request to take their picture. This is great!

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

Fab portrait, love the retro hair! What a lovely smile he has.
@sabresun LOL!

[Phil Howcroft]

@sabresun @annied @judithg @vera365 @dulciknit @allie912 thanks everyone for your continued support and comments