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Around The Horn
26 June 2024
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 sports, pickleball, portraits, portrait lenses, Nikon's lens map and paintings.
- The Associated Press presents its Sports Week in Pictures curated by Dario Lopez.
- Joe McNally shoots Pickleball in a Studio where the walls are all windows and the 14-24mm f2.8 Nikkor sees a lot of glass that McNally has to avoid firing his strobes into. "All flash came from camera left, trying to angle the camera so there wouldn't be multiple strobe hits in the voluminous yards of glass in the windows," he writes.
- Kirk Tuck has been on A Portrait Jag. He used his Leica CL with a Carl Zeiss Milvus 50mm f1.4 lens (a 75mm equivalent) "for portraits that needed to be 'loose' enough to see 'air' on both sides of the subjects shoulders." Wait, there's more. "The one change I've made lately involves applying an Adobe Lightroom Classic preset to all of the images for each subject," he writes. "It softens skin, brightens eyes and ... wow! It's A.I. enabled."
- Dahlia Ambrose suggests The Best Lens for Portraits whether you are shooting full frame dSLR, full-frame mirrorless or APS-C.
- Thom Hogan finds Nikon's Lens Roadmap Still Incomplete as it divides itself into S-Line FX optics and Other optics. "Given how Nikon's management keeps talking about an enthusiast-to-pro oriented lineup, one might say the S-line lenses are at the pro end of that, while the Other lenses are at the enthusiast end," he writes.
- In Your Photograph Looks Like a Painting? Jim Kasson wonders if photographs should look like paintings.
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