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.
Besides the wonderful training and seminars at Photoshop World, the exhibitor booths are my favorite things to visit. They have all the newest gadgets you simply must have to make your photography better. (Yes, that is a joke.) The vendors run product-specific training for more in-depth coverage on that new widget or software you’ve...
This time next week we’ll be off at Photoshop World. http://photoshopworld.com/ This annual pilgrimage provides an incredibly intense three days of professional training and the opportunity to interact with a few thousand of our closest friends we’ve never met before. The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) hosts this conference twice a year, once on the...
Short blog tonight about what we’re doing here and a request for input. Our purpose has always been to write about the fun you can get from photography and the enjoyment we get from it. We’ve been reviewing our blog to find trends and look for neglected topics. I think we’ve been pretty diverse in...
Making a frame around your image in Photoshop
Well , the Pre-conference workshops are done and we start PSW this morning. We had signed up for the Photo Safari with Moose and Joe and have to report that it was just OK. Not as spectacular as my fevered imagination had built it up to be. Still we managed to get some decent pictures. ...
