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Around The Horn
11 January 2025
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 enhanced northern lights captures, wildfire victims, the Dakar Rally, Ömer F Kuranli, ideaphoria, Picture Controls and a People's Choice award.
- Is the Aurora Borealis Really That Mind-Blowing? Or Is It Just Your Cellphone Photos? (gift link) Elaine Glusac suggests the northern lights get a boost from digital photography. Oversaturation, to start with, but greater sensitivity to red wavelengths than the eye helps. "And there are a host of other A.I.-based enhancements in cellphone cameras that can produce shots that once only high-end cameras could, including shooting many photos in quick succession and using technology to combine them for a sharper, more colorful and clear image," she writes.
- In California Wildfire Victims Pick Up Pieces as Blazes Rage On, Julius Constantine Motal curates images from Friday "as people across Los Angeles struggle to find a way forward." In Residents Return to Devastation, NPR has a few more.
- Christopher Ena photographs the Breathtaking Landscapes at the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia.
- Grace Holliday features Ricochet, Ömer F Kuranli's best phone picture captured on an iPhone 7. "“A perfect harmony of commanding geometry, contrasting colors, human presence and the dance of shadows," he describes the image of a leg and its shadow on a colorful concrete court.
- In Bones, Mike Johnston write about "ideaphoria," idea generation. "This is the topic I was struggling with two days ago and couldn't organize," he writes. "I wanted to talk about how we get ideas for still photography and why ideas at their worst can be stunting and restricting and, at their best, enabling and freeing."
- Is One of Nikon's Problems Just Names? Thom Hogan asks in reference to the company's Picture Controls.
- Grace Ebert invites you to Help Choose the Winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award. "Twenty-five stunning images are eligible for votes and capture a wide range of biological happenings around the globe," she writes. Deadline is Jan. 29.
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