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Around The Horn
4 June 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 Dawoud Bey, Mark Seliger, Wes Eisenhauer, a lunatic, picking a camera, flange-to-sensor distance, videoconferencing, passport photos and lens compression.
- Miss Rosen presents Dawoud Bey's Powerful Portrait of Black America Over Half a Century from Two American Projects, the Yale University Press book that accompanied his touring retrospective, which is now on hold.
- In Kurt Cobain With Dolls' Heads, Mark Seliger tells Edward Siddons about his shot of the musician six months before his death. "I only photographed him twice, but I always found him generous and gentle," he says.
- Wes Eisenhauer created some Curious Double Exposures of the NASA Facility.""I thought it was a fun way to summarize my trip and all the things I saw in a few concise images," he says.
- Mike Johnston is the Old Lunatic, taking photos of the moon with a 90mm lens at f10 with in-body image stabilization. But it's his crop that's crazy. Crazy cool.
- Is Picking a Camera Is Like Picking a Dog? Jim Kasson doesn't think so. "When I pick a camera for a project, I pick the one that will allow me to make images that are the closest to my vision," he writes. That isn't usually "the one that speaks to you."
- Roger Cicala has published the first part of The Great Flange-to-Sensor Distance Article. This piece covers cine cameras, promising even more fun with dSLRs later. But we found the cine discussion revealing for still photography too. And it never hurts to start at the beginning.
- In Here's How to Up Your Videoconferencing Game, Derrick Story lists five tips for avoiding many of the problems FaceTime, Skype and Zoom broadcasting engenders.
- Germany Bans Digital Doppelganger Passport Photos, Reuters reports. The morphed images fool artificial intelligence scanners at passport control into recognizing either of two people morphed in the photo.
- In Notes on Lens Compression, Andrew Molitor presents a couple of trick shots to show how hard it is to tell 3D spatial relations in a 2D image.
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