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.
The next time you’re out walking with your camera, try taking images of folks out doing whatever they’re doing. You might be surprised at the variety of photos you can get.
One of the things those of us old enough to have shot film remember is the impact the choice of film and the processing had on our photographs. The size of the crystals of the silver halide on the emulsion was a measure of how much light it would take to make your image. Smaller,...
In our last blog, we were playing around with examples of high contrast images. Today, I’m going to show you how easily you can convert images to high contrast, using the most common tool amongst our viewers – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. As I said last time, you get the best results with simple images. This...
Back in the days of darkrooms, there were occasions when photographers wanted very high contrast photographs.
In my opinion, Civil War battlefield pictures pretty much demand a black and white effect of some sort.
