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.
Sometimes, however, there is a picture in much closer to you. It’s OK to narrow your point of view. Sometimes, you want to capture just the details in a scene.
Around this time every year, I start thinking about fireworks displays. I love seeing the lights and hearing the booms, followed by the oohs and aahs of the crowds. As a photographer getting good photos of fireworks can be a challenge. It takes a little planning, a little technique, and some equipment. First, let’s start...
Most people have very few night time shots. What’s your percentage of night scenes? Do you have any at all?
It has been a really hectic week, and when I sat down to start writing, I really didn’t have a good idea in mind. Hoping to kick start my limited imagination I went back through the last sets of pictures I have shot. While we were visiting the New Orleans zoo, they brought this...
I had a great time at the New Orleans zoo, but aside from the giraffes, the photos of the animals in captivity were amazingly average. So what can you do with them besides just deleting them? I have to confess, I did delete most of the images I shot that day. Photoshop offers a lot...
