February 28, 2012 – A year of portraits – Dave O’Connell

02.28.12 Dave O'Connell

Today I decided to do an environmental portrait of Dave O’Connell, one of our sports reporters at the Messenger newspaper where I work here in Madisonville, Ky, at his desk in the newsroom. He is originally from York, Pennsylvania where he graduated from York College of Pennsylvania and loves covering the sports beat for the paper. He has a blog at http://www.the-messengerblogs.com/oconnell/ if you’d like to follow him.

Post processing was done with Photoshop CS5 where I adjusted the mid-tones using the Levels command, a little color correction and I applied the Topaz Adjust “Simple Pop” to sharpen the final image.

Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 @34mm
Exposure: Matrix Metering, 1/80, f/4.5 with an ISO of 4,000
File Type: Nikon RAW

    Dave O'Connell
    March 1, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    I can see why you’d need to sharpen the final image – I do have a fuzzy face.

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