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Page 24 <strong>Medway</strong> & <strong>Millis</strong> Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com <strong>May</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Artist Spotlight: Eileen Nelson<br />
By J.D. O’Gara<br />
“Photography makes me<br />
happy. If I could, I’d do it fulltime.”<br />
Eileen Nelson, <strong>Millis</strong> photographer,<br />
is also a nurse, and a<br />
mother of three. A shy seventh<br />
child among eight children,<br />
with a Mom who was an artist<br />
herself, Eileen has always been<br />
more comfortable behind than<br />
in front of the camera, and she<br />
has always able to see through<br />
an artist’s eye.<br />
“I see things people walk by<br />
every day and not even notice<br />
the light, sunrise, sunset, and I<br />
see the colors. I just see things<br />
differently. <strong>May</strong>be that’s why I<br />
do what I do,” says Nelson.<br />
Self-taught save for one<br />
course she took in college, the<br />
artist first picked up a Pentex<br />
ME Super at age 15 in ninth<br />
grade. “I also had a Pentex<br />
K1000,” she says. In 2006, Nelson<br />
would trade in her Pentex<br />
for a digital camera, a Canon<br />
50D, but in hindsight, she says,<br />
it would still be nice to have a<br />
film camera.<br />
Digital photography made it<br />
easier for her to share shots with<br />
friends and family, she says, but<br />
“when you used film, you had<br />
to know exactly what you were<br />
doing in order for it to come out.<br />
You had to learn to adjust your<br />
f-stop and shutter speed,” says<br />
Eileen. Although she could use<br />
Photoshop, the photographer<br />
prefers to “take the image to be<br />
the image. I don’t enhance it at<br />
all, or add,” she says, and she<br />
learns from each mistake.<br />
“I can laugh at myself,” she<br />
says. “It makes me better.” Nelson’s<br />
work has won some local<br />
awards, and she’s been a featured<br />
artist at Mass General<br />
Hospital show entitled “Illuminations.”<br />
Nelson says when she looks<br />
at landscapes, she’s drawn to the<br />
“lines, things that draw your attention<br />
to the center. You might<br />
never ever look at a picture the<br />
same way, you just see the patterns,<br />
the way the grass goes, the<br />
way the road turns. Also, shadows<br />
are different depending on<br />
the time of day. Late afternoon<br />
is very nice, or when the light is<br />
softer in morning, before the sun<br />
gets too high in the sky.”<br />
Eileen Nelson<br />
Nelson especially loves taking portraits, and she loves to zoom in,<br />
especially on eyes.<br />
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT<br />
continued on page 25<br />
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