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Around The Horn
2 June 2018
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. This time we look at Federico Alegria, Mark Broyer, auto masking in Lightroom, brands, the Zone System and a new Harold Davis book.
- In How I Got Into Photography, Federico Alegria describes his journey as a 17 year old studying business administration to graphic design, to writing and finally into photography when he borrowed his mother's a Canon PowerShot A1100 IS.
- In A Misty Night Stroll Around Hamburg's Harbor, Mark Broyer shows what a little diffused color can do for a nightscape.
- In Auto Mask Lightroom Tutorial, Ryan Breitkreutz of Signature Edits demonstrates how to use a big brush and targeted click to instantly create complex masks on your image:
- Matt Golowczynski asks Does Brand Matter When Buying a New Camera?
- Jim Kasson considers The Zone System and Digital Cameras with a few tests. He argues that as Ansel Adams conceived the Zone System, it doesn't apply to digital cameras. "There is no shoulder in a digital sensor; its response is virtually linear until clipping," he points out.
- The Art of Photographing Flowers for Transparency is a forthcoming title from Harold Davis. "The is a serious book in terms of its pedagogy, as the techniques I use in my transparent floral work are useful in many aspects of digital photography," he writes. He links to a couple of articles describing the techniques while we wait for publication.
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