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.
But the photo world wasn’t just buzzing over the neat new hardware…. Adobe announced the public beta of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.
My poor cousin up in CT has had no power for several days thanks to the October Nor’easter snow storm. As a Lightroom user though, you have all kinds of power for searching your pictures to find that one image. We have written a lot about using keywords and metadata when you import your pictures...
There have been lots of ads around the internet for Lightroom at reduced prices. Hmmm.
One of the differences between snapshots and photographs is that a snapshot records what is there, while a photograph directs the viewer’s eye toward a specific focal point. One of the easiest tools available to you in post processing is an old-fashioned one going back to the earliest days of plate and film development—the vignette....
