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.
Since we’re talking about people pictures for my next series of blogs, I want to take a small side trip to make a plug for genealogical uses.
If you were asked to name the subject of the majority of photos taken every day, you would probably guess, correctly, that it is people.
Last weekend, I got the chance to shoot in theatric lighting conditions. Or that’s what I call going to my granddaughter’s birthday celebration at a Medieval Times.
The new Lightroom 4 beta is looking pretty good. It has many new features that are useful, and you can bet we’ll highlight them when the final version is released. One of the features I like most is the improved Adjustment Brush. For the first time, all of the basic adjustments can now be applied to specific parts of the image.
Just a short one tonight about plans that went awry. I just got back from Alaska, and it was cold!
