January 7, 2012 – A year of portraits – Chris and Xavier

01.07.12 Christopher and Xaiver

Today’s portrait is of Chris Brantley and his son Xaiver. They are my great, and great-great nephews that live here in Madisonville, Ky. Chris is a hard working young man that loves his son and I’m very proud of him.

This photo illustrates that you don’t necessary need a fancy studio or lights to get good portraits on location. This was shot on the floor of one of the rooms at his house where there was a window available to provide some soft light. I then took a quilt and laid it on the floor with the non-design side out so I had a simple background, rather than the hardwood floor. I then stood over them and shot a series of photos for about 5 minutes from which I like this one the best.

Camera was again the Nikon D700 with my Sigma 24-70mm lens. Exposure was 1/30sec at f/5.6 with a focal length of 26mm and an ISO of 2000. I love the D700 because it gives me the ability to shoot in low light with high ISO settings with out a lot of noise.

Post processing was done in Photoshop CS5 with some dodging, burning and some sharping by using the Topaz Adjust filters.

Now, for the border effect I emailed the web version of this photo to myself where I could receive it on my iPhone. I then saved the picture to my camera roll and opened it up in a app called Photogene, (available on iTunes) where I applied the border that you see here. Then I emailed the resulting image back to myself for this post. I could also have just downloaded it to my computer by tethering it with the USB cord, but for just one photo it was easier to email it. This is the first time I’ve tried doing something along these lines and I’m happy on how well it worked.

 

    Humble
    January 7, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    Jimmy:

    You have the makings of a nice photo book here.
    “Faces of Madisonville”, maybe??

    Jim Pearson
    January 7, 2012 at 9:28 pm

    Thanks Paul… I expect there may be something along these lines down the road.

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