pic study

It's facinating the way framing the same picture in different ways can produce different 'feels' or results. What I've done below is cropped the same picture into icon-size several slightly different ways, just to look at the effect it has overall.

( series 1 )

The eight on the left I find facinating for the way the collar bone just pulls the eye if it appears at all and makes the cheeks become more important, whereas without it the line of the shine of the hair and the eyes take more precedence.

With the zoom-ed in set of four at the upper right, they're almost given a new context, each. Clockwise from the top-left: questioning, assured, ducking his head, flirty/pulling aside his shirt.

The set of nine at the bottom the issue is more focus on Kubota vs. focus on the space *around* Kubota, ie. the centered vs. the non-centered approach. With more blue space, it's almost like Kubota with focus on the aloneness. With the off-center shots of Kubota however, it's like the focus on the angst over the aloneness.

Then again, this is all subjective, feel free to disagree. (crops made from the picture below)


Oh, and yeah, there's a random icon of Kubota stuffing a gun down his pants. The larger version can be seen [here]

( series 2 )

Here, the different crops are almost like POV changes, it's interesting how much or little of a face you can leave out. And heh, poor Tokitoh, always gets his snogs interrupted...

[bigger versions of the cropped pics found here]

Btw, if you want to use any of these as an icon base go ahead. =)