Mayor Street at Casino Forum
The hair!
I marvel at it whenever I see him. In person, on the TV, in print. The hair! It's just nutso. I've seen it after a haircut, in need of a haircut and just right. I think it's funny in a good way.
This shot was taken with my D70 and my Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8ED @ f/2.8, 200mm, ISO-800 and the SB-600 flash zoomed into 85mm from about 10m-12m to his left. Converted to black and white via the Rob Carr Photoshop .atn after some initial full color tweaking. The noise of the D70 really comes out as an organic grain instead of nasty splotchy blobs degrading the image. The original color shot here for comparison.
The D70 is a real joy to shoot with. And I'm jealous of Matt who'll be taking off for Ireland with his new D70s. A part of my D70's soul will go with him as I sold him my 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G just before he got his camera. I want to take a vacation somewhere.
Here are two more shots of the hair from last year and one shot of my crazy hair for good measure.
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May 26th, 2006 @ 11:06 am
I like his hair — not so much the style itself as that he clearly isn't paranoid about keeping it in a perfect Politician Helmet, as so many do. Hair is a particularly charged topic for African Americans, and probably even more so in public life, so I like that he just has it natural and sometimes a bit ebullient — it speaks well of his comfort in his skin.
(not that I've thought about this before; just riffing off this musing…)