Fighting The Economic Crisis

The inspiration for this one was the legendary picture by Josh Sommers. I did not want to copy it completely and hope it has enough character of its own. The suit-boxing gloves combination has its origins in the fact that they match up pretty well...

Taken for the Active Assignment Weekly! group. This month's assignment: Deep Character Portrait.

What it took: Mainly I wanted to optimize the focus on the eye by enhancing the local contrast. Then by accident I overlayed the luminance channel with the original picture resulting in a desaturation and higher contrast, which I liked immediately.