January 17, 2012 – A year of portraits – Jackson Lin

Jackson Lin is one of the Hibachi Chefs at the Mount Fuji restaurant here in Madisonville, Ky and today I captured this portrait as he prepared lunch for members of The West Kentucky Photography Club. The food was and always has been outstanding and the show he puts on is great. The light on his face and the hat really go a long way in making this picture sing for me.

Post processing was done in Photoshop CS5, with mild cropping and slight darkening (burning in) around him on the background to help tone it down and draw more attention to him. I also applied several filters in Topaz Adjust which included, Mild Contrast Pop, Mild Color Pop and Photo Pop to help bring out what I envisioned was I was shooting the portrait.

Technical Details:
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 – shot at 70mm
Exposure: Matrix Metering, 1/125th sec, f/2.8 with an ISO of 4,000
File Type: Nikon RAW