I think this photo is post-worthy because it is one of my better portraits (I don’t usually photograph people very much, at least not their faces in traditional portraiture). Believe it or not, this wasn’t posed. I was randomly shooting on the Ginza in Tokyo on a Sunday afternoon when the street is closed to cars and just as I had framed this guy in a profile he turned to the camera quite by chance and smiled. I clicked. The bokeh are people walking on the sidewalk opposite the one I was on. The guy was in between on the street.
Yeah, I thought this was great when I saw it on your…where was it?, probably…facebook page. This is a wonderful portrait, but the bokeh in the background is awesome.
Thanks, A-man. Yes, the bokeh (especially in bw and with some prestidigital tweaking) came out very nicely.