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.
As photographers we have lots of opportunities to help others in our communities. Tonight’s blog will showcase a few of those places where you can donate two of the most valuable gifts you have—your time and talent. There are places to volunteer to shoot portraits of military families to send to their loved ones deployed...
I wrote in my last blog that I was restoring old photographs, so I thought I’d give some tips on the most common problem there – scratches.
One of your best friends in working on repairing damaged images is the clone stamp.
A dear friend of mine wanted to do something special for a couple’s upcoming 50th anniversary. The two surviving photos from their wedding were in pretty rough shape. She wanted to take lots of their photos and put them into a book. I got to help. Photo restoration takes infinite patience and attention to detail. ...
