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24 October 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 Kiana Hayeri, British landscape winners, Finish nature winners, learning the Sigma fp, pixel density math, Vero, Pixelmator 2.1 and TikTok.
- Promises Written on the Ice, Left in the Sun features the work of Iranian-Canadian photographer Kiana Hayeri, the recipient of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022, who has been living and working in Afghanistan for over eight years. "I remember Stephan Mayes once told me (paraphrasing a little here): the age of single images has come to an end. It is now a stream of images that builds narrative and tells stories," she says. "I think, as photojournalists, we have to be more thoughtful and form those streams of images, in order to change the public’s perception and change minds."
- The Guardian presents the winners of the British Landscape Photographer of the Year contest.
- The Finish Nature Photography Awards have been announced. Antti Strang's Threat from the Depths was the overall winner.
- Mike Johnston is Learning the Sigma fp(m). Today's lessons: using the Quick Set menu for easy ISO changes (and the chroma-noise elimination of shooting black-and-white) and skipping optical filters.
- Thom Hogan does the math in Pixel Density Redux to compare the linear resolution of various sensor-size/megapixel combinations. A 115 percent increase is "the threshold at which most people can detect any change," he writes.
- In I'm on Vero, It's About Time, Kevin Raber provides a counterpoint to Kevin Patrick Robbins.
- Pixelmator 2.1 has been released with LUT support, EDR mode, support for iOS 16.1 and the new iPad Pro.
- Time magazine goes Behind TikTok's Boom to discover "a legion of traumatized, $10-a-day content moderators" in Columbia. "Neither TikTok nor Teleperformance responded to detailed lists of allegations for this story," the investigative team reports.
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