Roger A. Dallman Jr. Roger started in photography in 1979, as a secondary job in the Army. He shot "grip and grins" and Army events. He began shooting portraits and weddings on the side for extra camera gear money. He won several photo contests and an Army journalism award. After career assignment changes, he put the cameras aside and sold his darkroom equipment. In 2006, he bought his first digital camera before a trip to Europe and was hooked again.
Today he is a dedicated Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop user-advocate and NAPP member. He is active in photography groups and teaches digital darkroom techniques. He prefers to shoot portaits away from seamless paper and static lighting. He is also a photo retoucher and restores old photos - a handy skill when working on his genealogy hobby.
Mark B. Segal. Mark started shooting when he was 13 and has done it off and on since then. As a Navy brat and then Naval Officer, I got to go to interesting places. I wish I had taken my camera more often. I love the way the camera allows you to dissect the world and shape what people see of it. Photoshop and Lightroom are great tools to help capture what you thought you saw from behind the lens.
I love helping people salvage and restore their photographic memories as links to their past. The patience and dedication needed are usually far beyond what the images are worth, except to the person who owns the picture. Seeing the smile or tears from when you've brought back an image from the cracked, torn and faded pile is a reward in and of itself.
Here is a quick tip to help you remember important facts while you’re out there shooting around a location that you want to remember – take photos of signs.
Last week was really hectic with work and such so Roger carried the load. As we talked last time, restoring color is relatively simple, just by finding a gray point. Sometimes black and whites can be a little trickier. The first thing to remember is that those faded photos didn’t start out as yellow.
Here is...
We’ve been talking about moving your camera settings away from the program mode, photo composites, a touch of white balance, and philosophical discussions about snapshots versus portraits. Whew! Are you ready for a break? OK, but only a short one, and we need to stay on target.
The last of the three important factors in proper image exposure is the easiest to understand: shutter speed.
For me, one of the greatest advantages of shooting digital is the ability to change your “film speed” from picture to picture. Being able to adjust your ISO from picture to picture gives you incredible control in changing light situations. I used to shoot slides, and usually bought Kodachrome 64. It was beautiful-when there was...
Mark and I are on a quest to get any beginners off the “P,” or program mode, on their camera. If you’re one of those people, don’t run from the room.
We have stated several times that our goal is to get the shot correct in the camera, so we don’t get too dependent on post-processing. And we really mean it – really. But…. Every now and then, this doesn’t work.
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day…
Paul Simon
Well what happens when those nice bright colors have all faded to a dull shade of gray? As I am working through scanning all my family slides and negatives for the last 50 years,...
