Open Shade

Dry Mill Worker

The more you shoot, the more you recognize certain qualities of light. I have my favorites. When I saw this guy standing in the back of a truck unloading coffee I knew it'd make a good shot. The patterns of the coffee behind him and the perfect reflected light bouncing into his area combined with his simple dress and symmetrical stance was bound to give me something.

I made about five shots and this is the second or third. His expression changed a bit and some coffee dust wrecked the latter ones. I wasn't totally sure I had gotten it and returned to him a little while later but he had become overly self-conscious for anything to have come of it.

I ran my special sauce over the image and did a little burning an dodging to bring it to it's full expression. I think it came together nicely.

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