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My friend Fons

The black background is authentic, he was sitting with his back to a dark wall.

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Pierre Pageau 2 years ago

félicitations . *****

Al Seyedain 3 years ago

Congrats for the selection of this wonderful image for the book.
al

Phyllis Clarke 3 years ago

The image of the wise old man - could not be captured better..the light is hitting his face and beard perfectly. This photo says to me..Master Photographer you are! Bravo..I am happy to have this opportunity to look again at all your images!:) Best regards, Phyllis

Jordi Gallego 3 years ago

An excellent portrait, perfect.

Thaib Chaidar 3 years ago

Stunning portrait!!! bravo;)

Tamas Balogh 3 years ago

Like it a lot!!

Helmut Schadt 3 years ago

A wonderful portrait Balazs!

Balazs Pataki Vielen Dank Helmut!

Giorgio Lorcet 3 years ago

great use of light. beautiful portrait. bravo.

Balazs Pataki I was lucky with the little light I had here. Thanks for commenting.

Carlos Costa Branco 3 years ago

Nice, very nice work.

Balazs Pataki Thank you Carlos.

Tim Corbeel 3 years ago

Brilliant!

Balazs Pataki Thanks Tim.

aleci 3 years ago

georgeous portrait!!!

Balazs Pataki More Belgium to the people! :) Merci & bedankt.

Antonio Arcos aka fotonstudio 3 years ago

it's is a great portrait, Balazs...

Balazs Pataki Thank you, and to the photons...

Timor Tom 3 years ago

Great portrait. Style I want to master, but on film.

Balazs Pataki In a studio, Fuji Astia or any other warm-aligned film would defeat a digital SLR, a medium format positive film even crushingly. In available-light conditions, it's digital territory - I can't imagine that any film @1600 ISO could yield this result.
Bottomline: brush, oil and canvas is still the best :)

Timor Tom I am afraid that you are right. I don't think any film above 200 will give the sharpness of detail.

Lars Grepstad 3 years ago

Very good!

Balazs Pataki Tusen takk Lars.

drinking_eye 3 years ago

Jo napot... what a shot! even difficult to describe! congratulations!

Balazs Pataki You're too kind, thanks.

Cupcake 3 years ago

Wonderful lighting and work.

Balazs Pataki Thank you.

Andre du Plessis 3 years ago

Enjoying a break from the course, and seeing this on a screen in broad daylight, but WOW, enen
in these conditions looks so impressive! Prophet, as Szabolcs mentioned, seems very apt.
Great portrait study and sublime light.

Balazs Pataki BTW, it's natural light here coming through a small and dusty window.

Balazs Pataki It's good to know that it meets even your standards. Thanks & be back soon.

Pedro Sacadura 3 years ago

fantastic portrait, i love the expression,light and contrast!

Balazs Pataki Obrigado!

John Parminter 3 years ago

A truly excellent portrait and I don't even like people..! I saw this in screening and wanted to write something like 'certain folk were made so people could point cameras at them' but in the end just voted for publish.
Mind, I thought it was taken by someone else though.....:-) hehe

Balazs Pataki Many thanks John. Fons really is a very special character.

Moisii Toma-Vladimir 3 years ago

the light is just FANTASTIC ! Great job!

Balazs Pataki Multumesc!

Rui Pires 3 years ago

Faboulous, Balazs, as i said in screening, it´s "da Vinci" with Rembrandt light ! Superb !

Balazs Pataki I was very lucky with the natural light here, thank you Rui.

Monique 3 years ago

amazing shot with beautiful light.

Balazs Pataki Dzieki Monique.

Szabolcs Sipos 3 years ago

This is a superb portrait, the lights are simply stunning, the face unique with the beard and the wrinkles. Is he a simple man or a prophet? Who knows?
Personally I would prefer the "Mandolin player", because of the story it tells. Here I see something beautiful, there I could hear the music too. I'm just sorry it wasn't accepted.

Balazs Pataki I also like the other one better and have absolutely no idea why it was rejected (like usual)... köszönöm.

Uzay 3 years ago

Greta portrait, great use of light

Balazs Pataki Cok tesekkür ederim, abi.

doro rapp 3 years ago

what an excellent portrait, the light is just wonderful - loved it in screening and are very happy to see it published! you captured the whole character and seeing your image I get the feeling I have known him for ages! :)

Balazs Pataki Many thanks for not voting against it!

doro rapp :))) that sceptical? well I know what you mean :)))
have a great day!

Balazs Pataki I do, because soon I'll have my favourite chocolate cake ;)

doro rapp ah - that helps :))) egeszegedre ;) - oh - probably belgian chocolate!! alors bonne appetit :) yummieh :)

Balazs Pataki Actually it's not chocolate but a cake made with chocolate, and to add style to pleasure we're watching the movie "Chocolate"... girlie day today :D

GABphotos 3 years ago

Excellent, Well done!

Glen

Balazs Pataki Thanks Glen.

Lars Klottrup 3 years ago

Happy again?
Lars :-)

Balazs Pataki Now I can say that 50% of my approvals is portrait and 50% documentary, which probably makes me more believable as a senior critic for those channels. If we ignore the exact numbers :)

Lars Klottrup I won't tell any! :-)