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10 May 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 migrants at the border, Spanish olive groves, Valery Poshtarov, Martin Parr, Jim Kasson, wide-angle landscape photography and blur.

  • Migrants Flow North in anticipation of U.S. border policy changes, Kathia Martínez reports. With images by Associated Press photographers.
  • Kate Mothes presents Tom Hegen's Aerial Photos of Spanish Olive Groves. "He highlights the immense monocultures that spread over nearly six million acres of Spanish countryside, documenting both large-scale agricultural production and smaller farms managed by individual families for whom producing olive oil is a centuries-old vocation," she writes.
  • In Father and Son, Magali Duzant reviews Valery Poshtarov's series of the same name. "The compositions feature only two figures. The subjects' positions are similar throughout. The title is just three short words, Father and Son," she writes. "And yet a whole lifetime of complexity is contained in these portraits; the emotions below the surface are anything but simple."
  • In My Love-Hate Relationship With My Homeland, the Guardian showcases Martin Parr's recent work after being named Photo London Master of Photography. Photo London's co-founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad said, "Parr is rightly regarded as the godfather of British photography. Without his exemplary practice today's British photography scene would be much impoverished. It would certainly be less fun."
  • Jim Kasson concludes his two-part How to Expose Raw Files after explaining how the camera exposes Raw files in the first part. "The net of all this is that you want to set your camera to base ISO and get as much light on the sensor as you can without saturating it in areas where you want detail," he writes. But it isn't easy to detect that saturation in the camera.
  • Ian Plant has a few Tips for Great Wide-Angle Landscape Photography. "Just make sure to choose a foreground that is interesting and that facilitates the viewer's movement deeper into the composition," he writes.
  • Mike Johnston catalogs Methods of Creating Blur after about 240 submissions to his photo contest whose theme it was. "And I'm sure I've missed a few!" he admits.

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