February 13, 2012 – A year of portraits – Dick Dodds

Today’s portrait is of good friend and fellow photographer Dick Dodds. I’ve know Dick for a long time as he used to be my mothers doctor and as the years have gone by he’s retired from that profession and pursued the passion he’s had since the 1970’s… photography. I asked him when he started in photography and his reply was, “I got serious about photography in the mid-70’s when I bought a camera that I could focus.”

Well, he’s been focusing a lot since then and has opened his own photo printing and restoration business called Southside Prints, in Earlington, Ky. His love is shooting a broad range of photography from nature to portraits and everything in between. His camera of choice is a Nikon D3S and for this portrait he’s leaning on his Nikon 300-800mm f/5.6 lens.

Lighting was available light from a window with a white board to bounce some light back into his face to fill in the shadows.

I used Photoshop CS5 to do the post processing on this portrait, however, I didn’t do much other than adjust the levels slightly and a little bit of burning in around the edges of the photo and applying the Topaz Adjust “Simple Pop” filter. The photo was used as shot without any cropping.

Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 24-70mm F.2.8 @ 65mm
Exposure: Spot Metering, 1/100, f/10 with an ISO of 4,000
File Type: Nikon RAW