Croq comes from 'croquer' - to sketch and 'Mob' is an abbreviation of Mobylette - a make of classic French moped: together they form the name of a Breton art initiative. Local artists descend on a town or village by Mobylette and sketch the place and/or its inhabitants - they mostly leave the images behind to be displayed in local shops, bars, restaurants, etc. This gentleman was one of a number of participants who were sketching in Paimpont village this lunchtime - he was sketching Paimpont Abbey. You can see another view in my Ocoloy Album post for today: http://365project.org/vignouse/ocoloy/2016-04-09
Great portrait. I especially like the light on his face. Too often photographers increase the contrast/grittyness and make these rough looking people even rougher. This is an honest shot, great work!
This is a great shot and nicely handled. Has just enough texture to it but not too much grit or sharpening going on. You've handled the glasses really well too, which can frequently be a problem.
Searching, almost pleading eyes. What have you done in post, I wonder? I remember you previously referring to "structured" processing or some such... injecting extra contrast in the mid tones, perhaps? It's almost hyper-detailed. Therapy, I suppose, for some who's who's been sentenced to a year's hard SOOC and gets day release for good behavior. ;-)
@jasperc Nice observation about the eyes, he was struggling to get the receding perspective right. The treatment is mainly micro-contrast adjustment... and quite a lot of work to make the village shop in the background less obtrusive. What may surprise you is that this was taken from almost the same position as my Ocoloy 100 shot so this is a (very) heavy crop from a 16 Mb sensor! I did have some closer shots but this is the only one where he has his pipe in his mouth and I wanted that.
congrats Richard, missed this shot during the week, a close up of your urban sketcher. Like the intense concentration and there is so much character in his face. I would have placed it higher on the list...
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