Special portrait, excellent cut, expressive! Very well done! *.*

Lovely Jenine, i like the framing and the lighting-and i did not know that Matt had such nice eyes!

Should be featured!

thanks everyone!!!

What a great and bold crop Jenine!
You have quite the artist's eye for the world.

Great, indeed. For me the cut is a little bit too close to his mouth. But it has a very strong expression.

Nice portrait, reminds me one of the Talking Heads members, the drummer.

thanks for all the super comments!!!

The framing is really good.. I would have made him put on a white shirt to match the high-key lighting :)

great idea - didn't think about that!

i wonder if you had to ask him to look serious or if it was a natural tendency? i like it. i also like the closeness, did you crop or really get this near?

basically the same - only cropped the picture into more of a wide screen format. I asked Matt to close his eyes and the open them - took the shot about 3secs later so i guess it is natural. Yip i was really close, and somewhere between 18 - 24 mm on the lens.