Hi Photographers,
                                    Guess I am the winner,Thank You all who participated and voted  for me I understand it was a close one,anyway to the photo,it is a good friend that I look up to, he has been around the world and even worked as a carnie the (circus) by the folds in the skin it tells the story.And he will be so proud!
The camera was a point and shoot model a Nikon,which now I have updated to a Nikon D60 and only shoot in RAW,and let me tell you if you take alot of photos and have to process these like everyone please look-in to getting Lightroom from adobe you will tell your self why haven't I done this yet. Back to the photo, I convered it to black and white and there are so many methods and I am going to share this with you,don't know if you ever heard of GREG GORMAN a famous photographer for Hollywood but every actor if you are somebody goes to him for a portfolio.Here is the formula I used "Black & White Conversion" with some creative dodgeing and burning on a seperate layer filled with 50% gray change the blend mode to overlay and with a soft brush painting in black for the darking and white as for the hi-lites at a low opacity in both the opacity and flow I think in the flow I used 30% and in the opacity 10 or less. Don't try to create quick results work all over the photo and slowly it will build something you will be proud of.
In conclusion I like to thank all the forum moderators, they are professional photographers just look at there work,and Renderosity and the people who really deserve it, thats the artists here.
I humbly accept this honor and I hope to see you again, Have a great week!
Ron Deviney

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