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Welcome to the Efcubed Photography Blog!

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. 

Monthly Archives: August 2009

Well, now that you’ve imported all your pictures and tagged each one, five ways until Sunday, what happens next?  Today’s topic is all about the tools you have available to let you gather all those photos and group them, so that you can show them off easily to admiring friends, family or clients.   Collections or...

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Confessions of a Proud Manipulator

I frequently hear negative remarks about photo-manipulation and my part in this evil scam. I want to put my political position on this issue right out front – HUH?

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Organizing your photos Pt. 2–Metadata and Tagging

Hopefully everyone had a really nice weekend.  Weather here in VA was spotty.  Nice on Saturday, monsoon like on Sunday.  I’m in the middle of scanning 50 years of slides from my family; it is a long and tedious labor of love.  Color correction and scratch repair are all potential future topics, but we want...

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