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Around The Horn
24 October 2014
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at a photo essay on the Bangladesh factory collapse, how to add textures to photos, Joe McNally's Vietnam project for Life magazine and photo contests.
- In Emotions Reverberate After the Sky Crashed, Andrew Boryga interviews Annalisa Natali Murri on her Then the Sky Crashed Down Upon Us photo essay about the Bangladesh factory collapse that took 1,127 lives. "The victims," Murri pointed out, "are not only those who died but also those who lost everything that day and no longer live a normal life."
- In Adding Textures to Photographs in Photoshop CC, Julieanne Kost shows how to blend layers to add textures (with a great tip about the blend options layout) but also how to use a blurred selection to reverse them locally.
- Joe McNally is Still Shooting for Life. Bob Sullivan asked him to go on the road for a new Life book on Vietnam to "catch up with folks whose lives were powerfully intersected by that turbulent time." Along with write Daniel Levy, he visited Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. to find both vets and protestors.
- Alain Briot has a few thoughts About Photographic Competitions. Two points we, as a judge, would underline are that "art is not a competitive endeavor" (despite some pretty amusing iron-chef like shootouts) and judges are overworked. It's a labor of love and the best judges encourage even better work out of anyone who submits an entry.
More to come...