I like the expression..... you really captured personality in this image. :~) Kemal is an extremely handsome man! The postworked image is maybe a too bit high-key for me... personally would love to see some skin texture and lines in his face which has been nullified by the postwork. My personal feeling is that this sort of treatment works best with glamour type/feminine beauty shots, (I just realized how sexist that sounds!), but this image just screams masculinity to me, and so I get an odd feeling when viewing it. The original color version works better for me..... although I'm wondering about the -1.3 stops of underexposure. I feel it's a bit too dark. Maybe this was a conscious choice or maybe not.....? I really find it difficult to comment on artistic choices as we each have our own ideas about esthetics. But from a purely technical viewpoint it would have been better to shoot the exposure correctly, and then lighten or darken to tastes in postwork..... Hope you don't mind me giving such long winded replies.... and don't take anything I say as a negative on your work, you've got a lot of talent, it shines through. :~)

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