February 4, 2012 – A year of portraits – Dannye and David Pearson

02.04.12 Dannye and David Pearson

Today’s portrait is of my brothers, Dannye and David. You can’t tell that much from this picture, but they are twins! Both just recently retired from the City of Madisonville and are enjoying their retirements. As big brothers go, they’re the best and would give you the shirt off their backs if you needed it. Good people…

Processing was done with Photoshop CS5 by burning in the edges of the photo, adjusting levels, desaturated the image slightly and then applied a little sharpening in Topaz Adjust using the Simple Pop filter.

Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 36mm
Exposure: Matrix Metering, 1/50, f/2.8 with an ISO of 4,000
File Type: Nikon RAW

February 3, 2012 – A year of portraits – The Maroon Mop

02.03.12 The Maroon Mop

Today’s portrait is of the Madisonville-North Hopkins High School mascot who has been the Maroon Mop as long as I can remember, probably dating back to when I was in high school there in the early 1970’s.

Photo was processed using Photoshop CS5 with some burning done to tone down the edges. Afterwards I applied the Topaz Adjust Filter called photo pop to finish off the processing.

Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 @65mm
Exposure: Matrix Metering, 1/500, f/2.8 with an ISO of 4,000
File Type: Nikon RAW

February 2, 2012 – A year of portraits – Scott Dillingham

02.02.12 Scott Dillingham

I grabbed this portrait of Scott Dillingham during Thursday night’s basketball game at Dawson Springs. Scott is the editor and publisher of the Dawson Springs Progress newspaper and is one of those guys you’d say has ink in their blood. Great guy all around. We were setting next to each other under the basket and pointed my camera at him and called his name. I shot off about four pictures and this is the one I liked the best.

I processed the photo in Photoshop CS5 and converted it to black and white using the Topaz B&W Effects plugin to achieve this final look. I also used the burn tool to darken down the edges slightly to draw focus on him better.

Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon 50mm f/1.4
Exposure: Matrix Metering, 1/500, f/2.8 with an ISO of 4,000
File Type: Nikon RAW