Great shot! Timing, expression and fluffy hair style
I would just try to heal that white part of background on the left.

Good call -- adjusted

I love it! Great expression

Laura

Great shot!

Common people, yeh right? LMAO

Funny guy.

The "thingy" in the background which is shown between his hands is a bit distracting maybe.

+7

Edit: Boinking a sheep? You are really hilerious!

Actually, these types of people are pretty common in NYC -- can't escape them on the subway. I'm sure "common people" from Sweden would be quite a bit different, but seriously, who wants to see a photo of a guy boinking a sheep?

really enjoy this shot...great lighting, BW and sharpness...

nice shot

so positive and happy!Great shot!

I like this kind of photo - there is a sense of journalism in it.
Is this originally taken BW or you saturated it on PS? Would love to see the color version.
Anyway lucky for you to live in NY, I always enjoy a good street performance.

Nice shot Brandon. In my screen it has a few overexposed areas, but as I'm the first to say it, I'll assume that it's this crappy work monitor!4
Loved the guy expression, very cool timing.

A good photo of a "common" street performer.
I'd like it more if he wasn't looking directly into the camera thereby giving it a more candid feel. Still a good capture.

@  eowyn: I shot it in color. I'll upload the color version for you a little later. I live right outside the city (about 40min.) but I love visiting it. I don't think I'd really want to live there though.

@  Vasco: I'm working on a color-calibrated monitor and everything seems to be pretty ok, so it could quite possibly be your monitor. Thanks for the comment

@  ThruMyEyez: I've got a few more "candid" shots of him. I'll upload them in the additional downloads later. Thanks!

Hey.....Glad to get to know the common people of your country!
Nice capture and tonalities!.....He seems to really enjoy the moment.
Two elements are more important for me....the hands and the face.
The "dome like" element distracts from the hand ( I would clone it out) and the elaborated back of the chair distracts a little from the face....maybe I would crop a little from the left and make some cloning of the distracting parts.
Also I would clone the bright spot on the right upper corner......But just my taste!
And some parts look a little overexposed in my monitor, nothing serious.
Again....glad to get to know the people of your country.
Carlos

lol nice shot :-
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Great capture! I love it! Good sharpness too

Great work

+10

Mert

Firstly i still have no idea about the thread reffered to in the description.. i wouldn't care to go through it..
Courageous to go black & white with white shirt & hair with darker skin tones, i get that all the time in my country.. in black & white it makes it tougher to keep the focus on face & hands ( as Carlos mentioned, key to a portrait ) .. so well done there.
To get over the problem of distraction from chair & top left, definately need to be at lower contrast to keep the focus on the character... I would prefer to have the drum inside the frame. would change the compositional balance, which could be more effective.. but that would be a personal preference... I am sure u have given it enough thought...

Now maybe i should go to read the spicer stuff in the thread since i still have 5 min to spare !!!

Great capture, great B&W

Cool shot... No overexposed areas on my monitor and nothing can distract me from that silly face and hairdress....
Well done....

Thanks, RvascoF

The company I work for makes color and monitor calibration hardware and software (among other things), so my monitor is definitely correctly calibrated. If anyone is seeing over-exposed areas, your monitor is incorrectly calibrated.

wow, gr8 expression

Lenny rocks the house!

Greets Lenny

very nice bw... well done

wicked shot! i like the wig the expression on his face is perfect and the b/w works great here