January 26, 2012 – A year of portraits – David Jackson

David Jackson is the Mayor of Madisonville, Ky and recently celebrated his first year in office as mayor.

He is a graduate from the University of Kentucky and is both a certified public accountant and a certified management accountant. David is also pastors Living Waters Church of God on Dulin Street.

I shot this informal portrait as he was preparing to address an area group known as the ‘Concerned Citizens Society’ and deliver a ‘Minority Report’ at the Larry Carney Neighborhood Center in Madisonville.

The photograph was processed using Photoshop CS5 where some slight cropping was done, burning down of the mid-tones around him a little and some standard sharping of the image was done also. I also used an f/stop of 2.8, for shallow depth-of-field, as I wanted to throw the background out of focus and keep the attention on him.

Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 56mm
Exposure: Matrix Metering, 1/125sec, f/2.8 with an ISO of 4,000
File Type: Nikon RAW