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 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.
Recently, I was adding a few touches to a friend’s image, and she asked me to change her eye color.
Many of you are leaving your camera’s white balance setting on Auto, and like all Auto settings, you may want to give this setting a little more thought, especially if you are going to do your own post processing.
I Needed to take a step back and enjoy the fall. Roger and I have been swamped completely at work for the last week or two, so our blogging has suffered. Unfortunately, the call of duty can triumph over our desire to write. The weather here in VA has varied with lots of cold rain...
