Mark Segal

Mark Segal

Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields and is a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website. Mark developed a particular interest in film scanning and authored the ebook “Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop” available on the SilverFast website. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and now a consultant in electric power development.

Articles by Mark Segal


Epson SC-P5000 Printer Review

The Epson SC-P5000 Printer “Executive” Summary What the Printer Is: It’s a replacement for the Epson SP4900, incorporating the new Ultrachrome HDX ink set and


Figure 5. Epson Print Layout Functions (Bird Photo: © Rich Wagner, WildnaturePhotos.com)

Printing Can be Fun and Easy

And We’ll Demonstrate It – Right Here This is a preamble to our major product review of the new Epson SC-P5000 printer. The Epson SC-P5000


Expanded Neutrals Testing

Several posts in the LULA Forum and further thinking about the importance of the grayscale to overall image quality sparked my interest in developing an


Observations on Chroma Optimizer (“CO”) Usage Canon Pro-1000 Printer

Users of this new line of printers have been raising questions about the role and volume of CO (Chroma Optimizer) consumption, having observed that CO


Specialty Papers and Some – A Review Of Some Special Papers

Specialty Papers + Some Over the years I’ve been reviewing batches of fairly conventional papers, be they matte or gloss/luster and observing the growing diversity