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Around The Horn
14 July 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 herons, Iranian women, rooftop crops, Schaun Champion, Holly Mason, GF aliasing, Z firmware upgrades, Time Capsules and Adobe activations.
- In Herons of Amsterdam, Grace Ebert presents an ongoing series by Julie Hrudová documenting the 800 pairs of the birds quite at home in 25 neighborhoods around the city.
- Joanna Cresswell presents images from The Lotus Seeds Waiting to Sprout by Iranian photographer Sima Choubdarzadeh. "I know that our situation is difficult for people in other, freer countries to understand, so I try to find ways to show what our lives are like in simple and direct ways," she says.
- Anthony Wallace captures a few of the Rooftop Crops growing on the decomissioned helipads of 60 of Hong Kong's buildings.
- Baltimore photographer Schaun Champion talks about her approach to portrait photography with a peek at how she edits toward a painterly impression in a 2:15 video.
- Holly Mason discusses Things I Wish I Knew about photography when she started out 10 years ago when she was 15. "The pictures I took were horrific and I edited them very very badly on Picnik ... RIP," she writes. But things got better.
- Jim Kasson measures Aliasing and the Fujifilm GF Primes. "My conclusion is that with the GFX 100S and by extension the GFX 100, you have to watch out for aliasing pretty much anywhere in the frame at f8 and wider," he writes.
- Thom Hogan has A Quick Setup Tip for Z system owners. Save your user and menu settings before updating so you can restore them if the update wipes them out.
- In Time Has Run Out on Time Capsules, Howard Oakley suggests options for replacing the aging backup drive in a Time Capsule. We've found it convenient to use individual external drives for each computer around here. We partition them with one partition dedicated to Time Machine backups and another free for our own use as extended local storage, which we'd need anyway.
- At MacInTouch, Adobe Issues discusses pre-Creative Cloud activation discrepancies between Intel and M1 Macs as well as hardware changes that require reactivation.
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