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Around The Horn
30 July 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 the Park Fire, Day 3 of the Olympics, Ben Thouard, Kang-Chun Cheng, the Nikon 135/1.8 Plena, bad cameras, the Lightroom Travel Photo Contest and a lawsuit over Oct. 7 photos.
- In California's Massive Park Fire Continues to Grow, Alan Taylor presents 26 photos of the Park Fire as it expands over 360,000 acres while being only 12 percent contained.
- The Associated Press continues its photo coverage of the Paris Olympics with the memorable moments from Day 3. Reuters has published its Best Photos From the Paris Olympics as well.
- Then there's Ben Thouard who is Underwater in Tahiti, Photographing Surfing during the Olympics. "Thouard, representing Agence France-Presse, is the only photographer in the water during the surfing competition," writes Mary Cunningham.
- Heidi Volpe interviews New York Times photographer Kang-Chun Cheng about covering various topics from his home base in Nairobi. After taking a few "bad photos" of a bedridden old man, she hurried to leave but the wife stopped her. "He and his wife had both been sick for collective decades and were barely scraping by without any income. And the wife made a point of thanking me, saying no one had ever come to ask them questions about their health before."
- Jim Kasson is now testing the Nikon 135/1.8 Plena on a Nikon Z 7. So far it's exhibiting "excellent performance," he reports.
- Mike Johnston argues it's possible to take Good Pictures With Bad Cameras. "The fact that you're using your smartphone is no excuse for not understanding flare, focal length choice, basic composition and basic exposure," he writes. "A good photographer can take competent product pictures with a phone."
- Adobe is running a Lightroom Travel Photo Contest. Use Generative Remove in Lightroom and share the image on social with #LightroomTravelContest. You could win $10,000 toward your dream vacation. Deadline is Sept. 30.
- Jeremy Sharon report AP Says Damages Suit for Use of Oct. 7 Freelancer Photo 'Fatal Blow' to Press Freedom. The lawsuit was filed in Jerusalem District Court in March by the parents of five victims of the Oct. 7 attack. In its defense, AP noted the photographers were not employees and therefore it did not assign them to cover the assault but that the images provide "a better understanding of the nature and extent of the atrocities," and that a ruling in favor of the damages suit would harm the public's "right to know and recognize reality, even when it is disturbing and shocking." Reuters is also a party to the suit.
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