Man by doorway

manbydoorway, originally uploaded by danhernandez.

Who is this guy? Was he a helpful local or a next door neighbor, a family member? Was this a vacation photo or was it taken down the street from the photographer's house.

I love how off center all these photos are they create these great tension filled photos. you don't get these kinda of qualities in photos taken with digital cameras. They seem more authentic because of there flaws. Typical digital images tend to be very centered and generic because of the handy viewscreen.

I had to do a little extra in photoshop to get the tones a little more even and readable, some parts of this photo where too dark and some where too bright. Its hard to resist the urge to just spend hours cleaning up some of these negatives some are really dirty. But I'm really not all that talented at photoshop cleanup. I've actually been thinking of releasing zip up packages of the untouched negatives to see if other people feel like.