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Photographer’s Choice – Megan Hutton

Hand Tinted Still Life, B&W Film

Megan Hutton - Hanging Basket

Megan Hutton - Hanging Basket

Megan captured this well composed still life as an assignment while a student at Wilkes Community. The original was taken on black and white film, scanned to digitize the image and brought into Photoshop where she very carefully hand tinted the various objects. The image has a subdued color which is quite different from that taken with color film or a digital camera. It helps to convey an old world timeliness well suited to the various components. There is no “wow” factor here. Rather it’s a calming and comfortable effect, as the photographer intended.
As a bonus, here’s another photo from Megan. This time it’s a digital image taken in September of 2011 with a Nikon Coolpix P7000. A good example of getting close to your subject. Great detail and lighting.

Photographer’s Choice – Martin Seelig

A Modern day Huck Finn?

Martin Seelig - Austin's Birthday

Martin Seelig - Austin's Birthday

Probably not but if you were casting a movie of the adventures of Huck, this young lad would be an excellent candidate. Martin captured this b&w shot of Austin on his birthday, sitting on the front porch between two buddies. The freckles, the smile and most of all the very casual haircut is strongly reminiscent of the carefree days of every boy growing up Martin says, ” I really like the expressions on the boys’ faces because it reminds me of a long time ago when I was a kid.” If you can look at this shot and not think back to your younger days when life was so much simpler and the days were passed looking for crawfish in the creek, you are missing something important. This photo was taken using film and Martin expressed the wish that he had had a faster film to allow more depth of field. In this case, it’s best he didn’t. The focus is exactly where it should be. And color would simply not have worked.
Technical Details:
Camera – Maxxum 9
Lens – Minolta 70-210mm at 210mm
Exposed at f4, 1/80th second
Film – Kodak PX 125 metered at 100
Developer – Adonal 1+50 for 13min