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Around The Horn
7 December 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 the Royal Society Publishing photography competition, LensCulture's B&W awards, a U2 spy plane photo shoot, documenting SpaceX's Starship launch, portrait advice, the TTArtisan 90mm f1.25 and Joe McNally.
- Matt Fidler presents the winners of this year's Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. The overall winner Irina Petrova Adamatzky discovered "another world" on a simple autumn leaf.
- LensCulture has announced the 38 winners of its Black & White Photography Awards, who hail from 23 countries on five continents.
- Suzanne Sease features the U2 Spy Plane Photo Shoot of Blair Bunting. "To put it simply, I would get into a spacesuit, climb into a Cold War spy plane that would then be chased by another spy plane to the Edge of Space to conduct a first-of-its-kind photoshoot," he says.
- Max Evans describes what it was like Photographing the Largest Rocket Ever Flown, SpaceX's Starship launch vehicle. "My main weapon of choice for punching in tight was the Canon EF 800mm f5.6, courtesy of LensRentals.com," he writes. "This lens, paired with my Canon 5D Mark IV and a Canon 1.4x teleconverter, would be used to track Starship on ascent."
- If You Want to Be a Portraitist, Mike Johnston recommends Erwitt Elliott's advice. "It's more practical to take pictures of famous people because they're more likely to be published.
- Kirk Tuck apologizes to his $499 TTArtisan 90mm f1.25 whose shortcomings her recently cataloged before reporting the Lightroom settings that eliminate them. You end up with "a lens that delivers a really, really sharp central core from f2.0 onward which is very well behaved when you make a profile with the few changes I've outlined above and shoot most stuff at the right focal distance and with a reasonable aperture."
- Joe McNally returns from his Costa Rica Portrait Sessions with the whole story. "On our recent foray to the land of Pura Vida, we encountered the natural world in all of its vibrancy -- jungles, creatures, birds aloft and landscapes," he writes. "But we also photographed the landscape of the human face and explored the lighting thereof."
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