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Around The Horn
26 May 2020
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 Jim Kasson, Thomas Kretschmann, Matteo de Mayda, Caitie McCabe, Covid-19's effect on the business, layer styles tips, Harold Davis, Ming Thein, a color test and Vivid-Pix.
- In Dancing Flowers and Grasses, Jim Kasson shows a few of the images he's been making in his studio by shining light through a Japanese bamboo sculpture. He also gives a bare-bones description of the process, which involves focus stacking, Helicon Focus, a Matlab program and Photoshop.
- In The Rolling Stone Files, German actor and photographer Thomas Kretschmann showcases the images he has supplied for the last page of the German edition of the music magazine.
- In The Story of Vò: Italy's Healthiest Town, Marigold Warner tells the story of Matteo de Mayda portrait of the town that beat the virus after a 78-year-old bricklayer became the first person in Europe to die from it.
- In Caitie McCabe FaceTime Portraits, Heidi Volpe talks to the photographer about using the Apple app to create over 100 remote portraits of children for charity.
- Robin Wong discusses How Covid-19 Affects Photography Landscape. And Thom Hogan is not far behind with How Covid-19 Affects Photography Landscape.
- Julieanne Kost continue her 3, 2, 1, Photoshop! series with Ten Tips for Working With Layer Styles:
- Harold Davis groups a few backlit flowers By Twos and Threes, wondering which set works better. Interesting to note that the background is not neutral.
- Ming Thein's Patchwork Abstract collects the rare abstract image from numerous shoots into a single photo essay. "Today's set was a tricky one to curate and honestly tested the limits of my archival system," he writes.
- The X-Rite Color Challenge and Hue Test tests whether you're among the one in 255 women or one in 12 men who have some form of color vision deficiency. We confess to scoring zero, just for the record. The trick to our perfect score was probably remember the color lessons we learned from Josef Albers: adjacent color affect what you're seeing. So move those boxes around a bit.
- Vivid-Pix is offering a $10 discount through May 31 on either its Restore and Land & Sea Scuba color correction applications for $39.99.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...