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.
Last Saturday morning, Mark and I joined Jeff Revell’s Georgetown photowalk. It was one of the more than 1100 photowalks that made up the 3rd Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk
The 3rd Annual Worldwide Photowalk is scheduled for July 24th. Are you signed up, yet?
The annual Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the return of spring and the 1912 gift of cherry blossom trees, from Japan
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. ...
We arrived in Oranjestad, Aruba, for a quick 12-hour stop. While I’m sure all the guide books tell you to stay with the group, we made a deal with a cabbie and left to explore island without the trouble of adult supervision.
As we’ve written about all week, Mark and I had a little contest this past weekend.
Just a quickie follow-up to Mark’s blog. I want to drive the point home that you have to get out there and use your camera to improve your skills. When we lead seminars with new photographers, we constantly hear how busy people are. I’m sure that is true, but, to quote a well-known future philosopher,...
