Hotel Doorman

[shootme]

This was a quick snap of the hotel doorman in Bucharest, Romania. Any suggestions of how I might improve this sort of shot, I purposely had the shadow over the eye to create some mystique, thought the B&W added to it as well? Thanks S

[tsanchez012]

I like this shot. He looks mysterious. The left shoulder blends in to the background pretty badly, but because he does look mysterious, I think it works IMO. Great Shot.

[caleb]

really cool shot, I agree that his outfit does blend in a little too much. I also think that his cheek bone looks a little too blown out and his skin is lacking detail.... Hopefully this was caused by postprocessing and it's still recoverable

[susaan]

Love the shot,because its simple,no insignia or colors to distract from the slightly menacing
feel.
Would like to see you play with it a bit and see how it turns out,like Caleb suggests.

[jetrim]

Normally you'd expect to see him on the left side of the frame looking right, but this works, WELL. I like this one a lot, though his cheek is a touch on the light side as Caleb mentioned.

[shootme]

Thanks for the input, the shot was taken early morning and the sun was beaming through the windows of the hotel, I'll see what I can do with the shot this weekend and share it again. Thanks S

[shootme]

My attempt to improve on the shot, adding better detail to the face and adjusting contrast and brightness to provide a better outline and detail (re:, blend with background) and taking some of the glare on the cheek. Hope you approve?

[caleb]

I suggest selectively adding contrast as this one looks a little too washed out, I really like the background of the first shot but the face and suit from the second one

[shootme]

I suggest selectively adding contrast as this one looks a little too washed out, I really like the background of the first shot but the face and suit from the second one

Caleb, I see what you mean and have tied to improve this with the revised shot here. Thanks for the input.

[Former Best Buy Employee]

The revised shot now looks faded even though I wasn't a big fan of the original shot.