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.
Frankly, we have been working stupid hours for a long time and we needed to regain what little mental stability we have.
One of the best things about our digitally connected world is the opportunity to share the photographs we take. One of the questions I get asked often is “What is the best place online to put my photos?” Just like the answer to what camera should I buy, the response is “What do you want...
Howdy Folks,
Roger has been carrying the load for this blog for the last few months, as I have been reminded on a near daily basis. Unfortunately, I have been off writing big proposals to try and get new business, thereby allowing me to continue my photography addiction. Finally, I’ve caught a brief break and have...
I Needed to take a step back and enjoy the fall. Roger and I have been swamped completely at work for the last week or two, so our blogging has suffered. Unfortunately, the call of duty can triumph over our desire to write. The weather here in VA has varied with lots of cold rain...
This month’s Fauquier Viewfinders picture theme is “Travel”. So I thought about what we can do to make our photos go beyond the bland snapshot and really capture the differences. I love to travel, always have. It was one of things I loved most about being in the Navy. I wish I had taken my...
One of your best friends in working on repairing damaged images is the clone stamp.
A dear friend of mine wanted to do something special for a couple’s upcoming 50th anniversary. The two surviving photos from their wedding were in pretty rough shape. She wanted to take lots of their photos and put them into a book. I got to help. Photo restoration takes infinite patience and attention to detail. ...
So Roger announced that I “won” the photo contest and while I enjoy gloating as much as the next person, I have spent the last few days contemplating what that really means. To me, photography is a very personal way of sharing how I look at the world. Since it’s invention, people have questioned whether...
