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.
So I got to take a LONG road trip this last weekend; 2600 miles in 5 days. It was an EFCubed photo expedition. We stopped in Memphis, TN, on our way out to Oklahoma, just to shoot photos on Beale Street—the home of the Blues. As you know it was somewhat warmish, ok, some would...
This was a great weekend, family and friends all gathered together for those great American traditions—eating too much and blowing stuff up. The 4th of July is the most American of holidays and it is celebrated in towns large and small all across the country. The holiday parade here in Warrenton, VA is a throwback...
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...
In NYC, and in fact every city, there are unusual details just waiting to be captured with your lens. We just have to tune our eyes to see them. One of the best things about photography is how you alone get to choose what is actually in the frame and what is left out. It...
Trying to capture the action on the streets, especially the streets of New York can be challenging. You never know what you might find. Last week as we exited Central Park, we felt the beats of the music coming from the center of a crowded plaza. As we made our way through the people, we...
