Isthmus cover: Deborah Blum

On Friday, I had an exciting photo shoot with Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of several science-themed books. We did the portrait in the UW-Madison Chemistry Building and with her connections we were lent (under the watchful eye of two professors) some interesting substances for the editorial photo. I really like how the bright colors turned out on this one!


Art director: Caroline Fath.

Isthmus cover: Sgt. Mike Koval

I've got the cover shot in the Dec. 11 Isthmus of Sgt. Mike Koval of the Madison Police Dept. We took the photo at night on West Washington Ave. so that we could get a striking editorial portrait with downtown lights as the backdrop. It's always a challenge matching your ambient light to the key light, and in this case it was quite a bit more difficult since it was quite dark out. Nevertheless, we get some great photos and I was really happy how the cover turned out. Art Director: Carolyn Fath.

Portraits and jewelry photos in Madison Magazine (October)

Photo © Copyright 2009 Timothy Hughes/Madison Magazine. AD: Tim Burton


Photograph © Copyright 2009 Timothy Hughes/Madison Magazine. AD: Tim Burton, Stylist: Shayna Miller

Several new photos in the October edition of Madison Magazine. Had a lot of fun shooting the images and I've been incredibly busy in September. I'll be posting more published work as it is released.

Annual Manual photos

Each year Isthmus puts out a magazine insert into the newspaper. This year I have seven photos in the mag. Here's my favorite one, a portrait of Meteorologist Charlie Shortino.

Photo from the archives: Will Allen

Months ago, I shot an editorial assignment for Urbanite Magazine. I drove to Milwaukee at 5am and had a photo shoot with Will Allen who recently was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Award). Will is doing groundbreaking work in his field of urban farming. Here's an outtake from our photoshoot.
Copyright 2008, Timothy Hughes.

New portrait photo

Last week I photographed Heidi for the cover of Isthmus newspaper. We met up at University Hospital in Madison and did the portraits there. For the cover image I dragged the shutter to backlight the photograph in order to create the mood of the image.

A few new portraits

I have several photos published in Isthmus this week. This portrait of Madison artist Brian Strassburg is one of my favorites. We shot this in his downtown studio on Sunday and it was a lot of fun shooting with all the artwork around.

Nov. 21, Isthmus cover

I like how this portrait turned out. The shoot was a challenge, but we got some great shots in the end. Art Director: Carolyn Fath.