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.
Noise lives in the dark parts of our photographs. All those little random dots of color which appear in parts of your images are just random data, when the camera sensor doesn’t have enough information to capture a picture. This last weekend I got to visit my folks and attend an unusual reunion. All the...
Between work and trying to think of something to write about now that I finished the Greece series, I realized that there was one feature in the new Lightroom 3.0, which really has made a visible difference in the processed images. All lenses have a degree of distortion. One of the reasons expensive lenses are...
Yeah, the title is lame, but I couldn’t come up with anything better than Rooster Cogburn… Last week, I used Content Aware Fill to clean up some telephone lines in an entry primarily about the impact HDR Toning can have on a flat image. Today, I want to show a few more examples of this...
Today, we’re concentrating on HDR Toning.
JohnS asked how I stacked several macro images into this miniature pine cone photo.
Now that the darkroom is digital, you can try all kinds of effects without ruining your original photo.
One of your best friends in working on repairing damaged images is the clone stamp.
The human eye is a wonderful thing. It can take in details in the highlights and shadows in a scene; combine them in the brain; and we see the whole image. The camera does not have this capability – yet. Believe me, they are working on it. What do you do in the meantime?
