Original color digital image taken in South Philadelphia, PA. Image downloaded into PhotoShop, cropped, changed to greyscale, adjustments made to curves and levels along with creating the white background. Your comments are requested and appreciated.
The edits you've done here don't look like anything that isnt commonly done in b&w darkrooms every day, so good technique there, subtlety is ideal. The image - simple, bold and graphic, shadow/highlight contrast is perfect to my eyes, well seen and executed, I'd make a large print of this.
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{K:17558} 5/30/2002