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.
We want to thank all the readers who voted in our little contest last week. It was back and forth and very close. When the smoke cleared, it was Mark in the lead by a nose (or was that a telephoto lens). His shots were 1, 2, and 4. Although we weren’t ranking the images,...
As we’ve written about all week, Mark and I had a little contest this past weekend.
Just a quickie follow-up to Mark’s blog. I want to drive the point home that you have to get out there and use your camera to improve your skills. When we lead seminars with new photographers, we constantly hear how busy people are. I’m sure that is true, but, to quote a well-known future philosopher,...
Every year at NAPP’s Photoshop World, there are two sessions that have nothing to do with Photoshop and yet, are some of the most important. Midnight Madness is just that, fun and games and a donut. Too whacky to be described, but lots of fun, just the same. Earlier on that same evening is “The...
Last month when Mark was talking about organization, he went through keywording and explained his methods. At the time, he also mentioned how I did my keywording for people, especially family. I figured a little more depth might be helpful. I started keeping notes on my photographs way back in 1979. (At the time I...
