wilth
Registered: January 2009
Posts: 787
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Wed August 25, 2010 7:14pm
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Hi Vic,
Nice story, even better candid portrait. The natural light is fabulous here as is the clarity and detail. Very natural colors and I really like the off side composition. DOF is right on.
Very well done and a nice homage to the "legend".
Thanks,
Wilt
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janper44
Registered: December 2009
Posts: 7,079
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Wed August 25, 2010 7:35pm
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Your portraiture of Charlie George is clear and detailed and as sharp in your memories of the days when he was playing for Arsenal.
Your attached notes made me wonder about all those players that I used to sit in the stands at the ballgames in the shadow of Little Mountain in Vancouver, B.C. over 50 years ago and watch and live and die by what they did. Some went on to become All Stars in the major leagues in baseball while others were guys who were just playing out the string because they loved the game but to a kid sitting in the bleachers watching them play in the Pacific Coast League they were my idols and I'll always remember them out on a field of green.
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oscar
Registered: August 2010
Posts: 45
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Thu August 26, 2010 4:46am
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A first class portrait of the "Legend", one that I guess you will treasure. Although I don't know him I can almost hear him speak. The white patch is a distraction.
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Mick
Registered: January 2009
Posts: 1,608
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Thu August 26, 2010 7:58am
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Well he must be as old as us .. he has aged better though 
A very nice portrait, crisp and sharp and apart from the shorter hair just as I remembered him. I know you had no control over it but the white bit is a distraction, maybe if you toned it down or cloned some of it out ..
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veejaycee
Registered: February 2009
Posts: 5,689
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Thu August 26, 2010 9:08am
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I realised before posting that I should reduce the white blob and I need my wrists slapped for not doing so. After Ray (oscar) rightly pointed it out - and before Mick's comment, I did reduce the white as much as can be done without affecting the skin and re-uploaded. It's not a clone-able fix because it touches the hairline. These "blobs" appear regularly around the ground and are almost unavoidable. I have some posed pictures with my grandchildren etc which are clear of them but I much prefer the off-guard moment as here where he is talking to someone just out of shot.
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yashica boy
Registered: February 2009
Posts: 701
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Sat August 28, 2010 9:49pm
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Very Nice shot Vic, I throught that it was Charlie George before I scrolled down the back ground is nicly out of focus and to me the white blob doesn't take any thing from the image
Charlie has some sort of conection with my home town of Banbury and I remember that he came to the town after the FA cup win and did a tour of the town in a open top car cant remember if he brought the cup though!
Best regards
Richard G
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olddingo
Registered: November 2008
Posts: 2,626
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Sun September 19, 2010 6:22am
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I reacll watching him play too Vic. A good portrait, well positioned within the frame and the colours in his clothing spot on,
Dave
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