Head on

What a great expressive,and friendly face.And not difficult to photograph.All I had to do was to summon up the courage and ask.
Now I know portraits are supposed to be soft and flattering but this is one that just cried out to be hard and sharp.
It was taken as a DNG file on the Leica X1 then converted in

to B&W in SilverEFX as a "Tri-X" film emulation and then tweaked in Lightroom 4.