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Around The Horn
7 January 2023
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 Nate Gowdy, Isabel Malia, Gen Z's digicams and 2023 photography contests.
- In Insurrection: January 6, Up Close and Firsthand, Mark Murrmann presents the black-and-white HDR-heavy photos of Nate Gowdy documenting the event in a new book. "The book moves readers through the day in timestamped, chronological order, bringing them a first-hand, up-close account of not just the insurrection, but what it was like to be a journalist on the front lines of a battle for democracy," he writes. There's more with Gowdy in The 'Melee' of Jan 6, Through a Photographer's Lens at the PBS NewsHour.
- Isabel Malia explains how she shoots portraits with The Gorgeousness of the Victorian Era. Not HDR.
- The Hottest Gen Z Gadget Is a 20-Year-Old Digital Camera (gift article) writes Kalley Huang. Any digicam, that is. "That respite is coming in part through compact point-and-shoot digital cameras, uncovered by Gen Z-ers who are digging through their parents' junk drawers and shopping secondhand. Camera lines like the Canon Powershot and Kodak EasyShare are among their finds, popping up at parties and other social events." Apparently, computational phone photography is, well, boring. Huang gets the technical bits wrong (digicams did not produce "lower-quality images" but they could be misused).
- Jasenka Grujin lists nine of The Best Photography Contests in 2023.The end of the piece includes a few photo contest tips, too. Make sure to read the terms of any contest you enter. "You should make specific reference to the copyrights claimed by the organizer -- you don't want to be giving your images away for free and 'rights grabs' are a bit of a problem among the less scrupulous competitors," she writes.
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