January 21, 2012 – A year of portraits – Triston Cottrell

01.21.12 Triston Cottrell

This is Cadet Corporal Triston Cottrell with the Muhlenberg County High School JROTC program. He’s a freshman at the high school and was part of the drill team that competed today at Hopkins County Central High School’s “Storm Surge Drill Meet” in Mortons Gap, Ky. Teams from 10 different high schools converged on the school to compete against each other and while there were a wealth of portraits to shoot, I found this young man in front of my camera eager to have his portrait taken.

I processed this portrait using Photoshop CS5 by darkening down the areas around him to draw focus to the main subject of the picture. I then applied a custom variation of the Topaz Adjust Photo Pop filter as the basic one was a little more overpowering than what I wanted.

Technical Details:
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 – shot at 26mm
Exposure: Matrix Metering, 1/500 sec, f/2.8 with an ISO of 4,000
File Type: Nikon RAW

 

January 20, 2012 – A year of portraits – Tina Dillingham and Jax Kinney

01.20.12 Tina Dillingham & Jax Kinney

This is co-worker and friend, Tina Dillingham and her 7-week-old nephew Jax Kinney during a visit he and his mom paid to Tina at the office Friday afternoon. Tina works in our advertising department at The Messenger and Jax, well, he does what most kids his age do, sleep alot. Just liked the nice moment between aunt and her nephew.

This portrait was created pretty much on the iPhone 4. I shot the picture with the default camera and brought it into the app called PerfectlyClr which is a nice app for sharping up your iPhone images. I then opened the photo up in Photogene and added the border to the print. The photo was then opened in Photoshop CS5 and I used the burn feature to darken around the two of them to help draw the eye to them.

Technical Details:
Camera: iPhone 4
Lens: Built-In Camera lens
Exposure: HDR and the iPhone doesn’t record shutter speed or aperture information
Apps Used: PerfectlyClr, Photogene and Photoshop CS5