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.
If you want to give your photos a different look than the casual snapshooter, you need approach a scene differently than them.
There have been lots of ads around the internet for Lightroom at reduced prices. Hmmm.
There is a simple way to change the appearance of your photographs without using any fancy software. In fact, you can try this with the simplest image manipulator or the most expensive, and your viewers won’t know the difference. This simple tool is the crop tool, and it can completely change the look of your image.
Most people have very few night time shots. What’s your percentage of night scenes? Do you have any at all?
While you’re out there becoming a better photographer, take some time, now and then, to learn about aspects of photography beyond the mechanics of capturing an image and processing it.
