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Around The Horn
23 March 2022
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 Kansas, Ukraine, Danish Siddiqui, apples, a double exposure effect, firmware updates, 100-Mp 35mm sensors, an estimate and the Mac Studio's removable SSDs.
- In How Is This the Least Beautiful State? Kynala Phillips challenged readers of The Kansas City Star to submit photos to show the state is not as unattractive as a Thrillist ranking. All we can say is that if that's as bad as it gets, we're living in a beautiful country.
- In More Than 10 Million Displaced as Ukraine's International Outreach Continues, NPR's Picture Show features AP and Getty images curated by Virginia Lozano and Marco Storel.
- In Family of Killed Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui Take Taliban Leaders to ICC, Robert Griffiths reports a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court was filed yesterday to investigate his killing and bring to trial the Taliban's leadership for "committing war crimes." Siddiqui was killed last year while embedded with Afghan forces.
- Jasenka Grujin showcases 21 Delightful Photos of Apples as something of a tutorial on composition. It may make you hungry, though.
- Julieanne Kost details Creating a Double Exposure Effect in Photoshop. Some cameras actually can execute a double exposure (Nikon dSLRs are famous for that) but you can always do it in your image editing software. Here, Kost shows off what Photoshop can do using the Pen tool, Layer Masks, Blend Modes, Smart Objects, and a Gradient Map Adjustment Layer:
- Thom Hogan advises Don't Bet on Firmware Additions, especially if (like him) you have "a list of over 40 things that need addressing in firmware on the Z9," not to mention "another two dozen feature requests."
- Lloyd Chambers worries about the Challenges of 100 Megapixels in 35mm Format, listing a few concerns about the inevitable.
- Craig Oppenheimer prices Still Life Images for Pharmaceutical Client for unlimited use for two years. "Right from the start, we were told that they have a budget of $15,000, so my goal was to account for all necessary expenses while making sure that the fee for the photographer was appropriate for the usage," he writes.
- Andrew Cunningham takes on the task of Explaining the Mac Studio's Removable SSDs. As others have documented, the Studio won't boot if you replace its SSDs, so they aren't upgradeable. But there's a reason, Cunningham explains before detailing how Mac SSDs work.
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