Portrait series

[Carlsen Highway]

Okay, I'm doing a series of portraits on waterfront workers (longshormen / dockers), basically I'm grabbing them as they walk off the ship for smoko's and taking pictures as below.

I wanted to isolate them completely, and let faces and work gear tell us what it could. Its just the first few.
Are there any thoughts on this approach?

 

[Keith]

Lovely stuff ... I'd like to see a lot more of these.

These guys have the sorts of faces that are really worth photographing and I like the way you're going about it ... I think it's the perfect approach. 🙂

 

[Carlsen Highway]

Keith, I have a lot more coming, just wanted to see how people thought the first 'felt' while I have time to change my set up.
I wanted to shoot these guys faces with a very soft touch as it were, but was wondering whethers might think that I have gone too soft.