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.
Ansel Adams said “Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” Well, I certainly am not Ansel, but at the end of the year revisiting the images you like best can be worthwhile. This year I shot over 5702 pictures—I can’t be certain of exactly how many because I deleted all the...
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope that each of our readers has the chance to spend their holiday with friends and family. This marks the start of what seems to be a race to get to the end of the year. Step back and slow down a bit. As you prepare your feast this year take...
I wouldn’t know the author Nora Roberts if she came up and bit me. My wonderful wife however, has an entire bookcase shrine devoted to her works. A few months ago, she mentioned that Ms. Roberts and her husband lived in Boonsboro, MD and had opened up a B&B. I feigned nonchalance – hard to...
This last weekend we ventured up the road for a little get-away. Since it was a beautiful fall weekend and my wife had never visited, we stopped off at the Antietam battlefield in Sharpsburg, MD. As you read last week, Roger and I had the honor of recording a fine young Sergeant being placed to...
My poor cousin up in CT has had no power for several days thanks to the October Nor’easter snow storm. As a Lightroom user though, you have all kinds of power for searching your pictures to find that one image. We have written a lot about using keywords and metadata when you import your pictures...
