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Around The Horn
19 April 2021
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 Laura Pannack, Josh Edgoose, Lightroom beginner tips, the Canon EOS R6, assaults on journalists, adapting a lens, the GFX 100S sensor, a personality study and Charles (Chuck) Geschke.
- "British social documentary and portrait photographer Laura Pannack's stirring series Baruch follows a young Israeli man named Baruch, who has left his ultra-conservative Hasidic Jewish community to look for his place in the world," Stephanie begins. "With this work, Pannack seeks to explore the complex relationship between subject and photographer with a truly empathetic lens."
- In Color, Comedy and Coincidence in London, Tim Adams tells the story behind one of the images in Josh Edgoose's new book Brilliant Parade. "After an hour or two in the drizzle, in which he fielded questions from curious passers-by, the woman walked into his frame with the 'right kind of silvery blue tones' and he had his picture," he writes.
- Adobe has published Benjamin Warde's Beginner Lightroom: Editing Tips covering one-click edits, advanced tools and fixing photos for newbies:
- Scott Kelby files My Field Report on the Canon EOS R6 Mirrorless from the Sun n' Fun Aerospace Expo airshow. He loved how it tracked focus but got stung by a persistent Err 70. Where's Chuck Westfall when you need him?
- Kellen Browning reports Minnesota Governor Calls Alleged Assaults on Journalists 'Chilling.' Gov. Walz said, "“Apologies are not enough; it just cannot happen." The governor was responding to a letter sent by an attorney representing 20 news media organizations detailing police assaults over the last week. In Photojournalism Is Under Threat: Here's What to Do, Chris Gampat adds his two cents to the issue.
- Derrick Story shows How to Adapt a 20-Year-Old Lens to an X100 (And Save $300) with step-up rings and add a 1.5x teleconverter, too.
- Jim Kasson reports the GFX 100S Sensor Is a 4-Shot Stitch. "I took the lens off a GFX 100S, set the ISO to 100, the ES speed to 1/250 second and banged off 32 exposures," he begins. He found four quadrants with "somewhat different characteristics" but doesn't think it's of any concern.
- A Most Unscientific Personality Study of Photographers by Kirk Mastin asks, "What draws us to be photographers?" Photographers on Facebook, anyway.
- We note the passing of Charles (Chuck) Geschke, co-founder of Adobe, at the age of 81. John Nack has a nice appreciation with links to more stories about the man, including one he told himself.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...