Old guy with accordian.

[moomike]

My first foray into this section of the forum, the portraits on here are excellent btw so I feel I have a lot to live up to :clap:
I know this is nothing overly original & the processing style is done a great deal but I quite like the image anyway (& it was just for fun).
Since posting this image on my gallery I think that I need to crop off a small area from the top of the image, not sure if theres too much black?
C&C welcome as usual.
Cheers for looking,
Mike :thumbs:
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/Accordian_man1.jpg

[namllihs]

I think you could lose a little at the top.
Good portrait, that is a face full of character.

[moomike]

Cheers for the comment Namllihs, :thumbs: will have to repost when I get a min.
Edit: Have reposted, think it definately looks better now.

[yoby]

Really like this, his accordian's more battered than he is....
Something about it just makes me want to look at it again, and each time I look I notice something different..

[richie]

i think its great i would be well happy with that :clap:

[Searyous]

Nice, what made you black the background out though?

[h.r.ford]

I love the expression but I do feel it would have been better in a street background... could you let us have a look at the original?

[moomike]

Thanks for the comments everyone :thumbs:
I have attached the original image Renee, the background was just really boring (& mostly black to begin with) so I thought I'd just get rid of it & see how it looked. Think I may actually prefer it with the sparse background after all. Let me know what you think, should I add a background in or leave it as is - maybe a reflection in the window would work? :shrug:
Thanks again.
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/Accordian_man_original.jpg