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Matinee: 'Nina Fuller, Photographer'

18 May 2019

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

18 May 2019

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 Brown v. Board photos, Bay to Breakers costumes, World War I biplane pilots, a Broadway play and rotting data.

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Friday Slide Show: Steps & Stairs

17 May 2019

When we launched Lightroom to ponder this week's slide show, Excire let us know there was an update. Delighted to be able to procrastinate, we downloaded and installed it before using it to collate images of "stairways" using that as a keyword.

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Leica Announces Special Edition Leica CL 100 jahre bauhaus

17 May 2019

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus school of art and design in Germany, Leica has announced its special edition Leica CL 100 jahre bauhaus camera kit.

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Around The Horn

17 May 2019

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 powerful offices, the Denver Portfolio Walk, Kelby goes mirrorless, your Aperture libraries , the Fuji X-T3, a print sale and Jim Kasson.

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ON1 Releases Photo Raw 2019.5

16 May 2019

ON1 has released Photo Raw 2019.5, its image editing software for macOS and Windows, with improved speed, performance, workflow enhancements and several new features.

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You Know My Name...

16 May 2019

Passing this alley entrance, we were struck by the street number. It seemed put together from scraps at the spur of the moment rather than the official designation of a particular address. There was something squirrelly about clamping numbers on iron mesh.

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Around The Horn

16 May 2019

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 1919, Weegee, marble quarries, British press photography, Nick Rasmussen, David Severn, Nikon Z Firmware 2.0, an iCloud guide, an ON1 Photo Raw 2019.5 webinar and street photography.

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At the Doctor's Office

15 May 2019

The medical office at Geary and Divisadero is an all-in-one location. You can see your doctor, get blood tests, get an X-ray and pick up a prescription just by riding the elevator. It's an enormous convenience.

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Around The Horn

15 May 2019

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 Nikon D1, cats, Adobe Flat Field, forum discourse, Alistair Taylor-Young, a lighting lesson, Robert Vanelli, unauthorized versions, open source, software and insurance.

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Book Bag: Ansel Adams, The Grand Canyon and the Southwest

14 May 2019

On the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Grand Canyon National Park, Little, Brown and Company has published Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest. He loved the place from the moment he set eyes on it.

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Around The Horn

14 May 2019

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 climate change, the Lens Blog, a Huawei campus, Ragnar Axelsson, the mirrorless market, the Nikon D3500 and Mike Johnston.

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Adobe Lightroom Releases Significant Updates +

14 May 2019

On the heels of a macOS security update to Mojave, High Sierra and Sierra, Adobe has released an update to its Lightroom ecosystem with "new features that help you become a better photographer, collaborate and take your editing to the next level."

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AppleInsider: Adobe Warning Users Off Old CC Versions

13 May 2019

In a report today by William Gallagher, Adobe is sending email notices to users of older versions of its Creative Cloud applications warning them that continued use may expose them to "potential claims of infringement by third parties" because they are "no longer licensed to use them."

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A Day in the Reviewer's Lab with Photo Mechanic

13 May 2019

We've wanted to review Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits for years. We kicked the tires on v4 for nearly six years and have been running the windows up and down on v6 for a few weeks now.

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Around The Horn

13 May 2019

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 Olympus at 100, white rhinos, author photos, film vs. computational photography, another Fujifilm lens kit and that "passion" thing.

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Matinee: 'Poetics of the Everyday'

11 May 2019

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Hannah Reyes Morales Wins Hetherington Visionary Award

11 May 2019

Hannah Reyes Morales has been awarded the 2019 Hetherington Trust Visionary Award for her project Living Lullabies, the Trust announced earlier this week. The award includes a £20,000 grant.

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Around The Horn

11 May 2019

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 Tiananmen Square, the school photo industry, that Salvini photobomb, the invention of color photography, Susan Wright, a Fujifilm lens kit and photographing Chernobyl.

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Friday Slide Show: The Promise of Blossoms

10 May 2019

Our apple "tree" is really three trees that sprouted together from different apple seeds our neighbor gave us. "Separate them," he advised us. But we didn't want to plant an orchard. Instead, we thought we'd plant them together, saving us the trouble of grafting them later.

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Around The Horn

10 May 2019

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 dinosaurs, a Fujifilm/Skylum deal, keeping every Raw file, removing objects on iPhone photos and a magazine cover photo contest.

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Wacom Introduces Intuos Pro Small

9 May 2019

Wacom has completed its line of Intuos Pro tablets with the Small model, which joins the Medium and Large models in the line of pressure-sensitive, wireless tablets.

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Around The Horn

9 May 2019

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 Ever app deception, Big Sur, Payboo caveats and SSD price-per-GB prediction.

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Holding the Fort

9 May 2019

The "fort" in North Beach depicted here burned down in March of last year, closing 10 businesses. No one was injured. Today only the brick facade remains.

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Around The Horn

9 May 2019

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 2019 Venice Biennale, Eudora Welty, Patrick Wack, Alyssa Meadows, black-and-white calculations, Nikon's strategy, photographic storytelling and Sigma savings.

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Adobe Announces Nine New Creative Residents

8 May 2019

Adobe has announced nine new Creative Residents who have pledged to use their talents to make a positive impact in both the creative community and around the world. In return the company will provide access to its creative tools and resources plus the opportunity to share what they learn and their creative insights across a larger creative community.

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Consensum Offers Free Worldwide Copyright Registry

8 May 2019

Concensum has announced the Concensum Global Copyright Register, a worldwide registry based on blockchain technology connecting image copyrights with the author to protect assets worldwide. The Concensum Register is live now and available for free to all copyright owners to protect photos and other images from theft.

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Canon Announces RF 85mm f1.2 Prime Lens

8 May 2019

Canon has announced its RF 85mm f1.2 L USM prime lens, the fifth lens in the RF family for the EOS R or EOS RP cameras.

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Around The Horn

8 May 2019

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 a series on robots, German nature photographers, NASA Antares rocket launch, Kampung Datuk Keramat, beating the grind, a $32K bid, three free ebooks and hard drive reliability stats.

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Facts Online

7 May 2019

The phrase "facts online" struck us as a bit awkward at first. Then we considered the source, famous for the perfectly natural-sounding "beer on tap." The one phrase echoes the other not by accident, we presume.

Honest Abe is just the sort of recruit the Kremlin would prize in its dual international initiatives to infect the gullible with, well, online "facts"(or what you might think of as "fake opinion") and turn long red ties into a fashion statement.

But Abe didn't make it to the Internet age.

And the declining number of us who know that are the only ones who get the joke. A sodden thought, perhaps, even at happy hour.

Having sunk this low, though, we might as well dig for the deeper meaning.

It isn't "facts" (or the online medium itself) so much as opinion posing as facts that cannot be validated. Or as the sign proprietor might put it, "That and three bucks gets you a beer during happy hour."

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Red Bull Illume Image Quest Opens For Entries

7 May 2019

Red Bull Illume is now accepting entries for its fifth Image Quest contest to showcase "the most creative and captivating images while illuminating the passion, lifestyle and culture of the photographers who shoot them."

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Around The Horn

7 May 2019

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 2019 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, Bob Colacello, improving your photography, removing or deleting photos in Lightroom, Adobe tutorials, capturing panoramas and fair use.

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Portrait of Humanity Winners, Shortlisted Announced

7 May 2019

The 50 winners and 200 shortlisted entries in the Portrait of Humanity contest created by 1854 Media, publisher of British Journal of Photography, in partnership with Magnum Photos, have been announced.

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B&H Introduces Sales Tax Free Payboo Credit Card

7 May 2019

B&H has announced Payboo, a credit card that instantly applies a reward in the amount of the applicable sales tax on B&H purchases.

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How Was Your Weekend?

6 May 2019

The faceless Ladies of the Roof by Muriel Castanis adorn each side of Philip Johnson's 580 California St. Castanis was going for the corporate goddess look and totaling 12 in all, they make a quorum for a mythological board of directors meeting.

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Around The Horn

6 May 2019

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 George Etheredge, Sayuri Ichida, Pat Kane, more MTF charts, interesting photographs and the American Photography Open 2019.

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Matinee: Yucho Chow

4 May 2019

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

4 May 2019

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 photos of the week, Garry Winogrand in color, the Panasonic G9, a Sony APS-C lens set, Derrick Story interviewed, pro skills and travel photography jobs.

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Friday Slide Show: Doors

3 May 2019

When we put together our Favorite Windows slide show in 2017, we scrolled through our collection of 60,000 images to make the selections. Since 2018, though, Excire Search Pro has been doing the scrolling for our themed slide shows.

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Adobe Clarifies Photography Plan Options

3 May 2019

In the answer to a question posted by Betty Wiley in the Photoshop Family support forum, Laura Shoe reports Adobe's explanation of the apparent increase in Creative Cloud's Photography Plan subscription price.

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Around The Horn

3 May 2019

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 LaToya Ruby Frazier, National Geographic Travel Photo Contest entries, Vincent Glielmi, Global Big Day, comparing two cameras and the new Creative Commons search engine.

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Adobe Launches PhotoWalk Sweepstakes

2 May 2019

Adobe has launched its PhotoWalk Sweepstakes, inviting smartphone photographers to follow in the footsteps of local photographers in three U.S. cities and upload their shots for a chance to win a DJI Spark drone.

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Think Tank Photo Introduces Stash Master 13L

2 May 2019

Think Tank Photo has announced its $59.99 Stash Master 13L, a travel cube with padded dividers that can be slipped into any large backpack to expands its capacity to protect photo gear.

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Around The Horn

2 May 2019

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 mediums, the oldest photos, sleep paralysis, Elise Mesner, Giverny, photo storage, the Fujifilm 16-55mm f2.8, Dave Debaeremaeker, the Adobe Photography Plan and a Small Claims Court.

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Apple Blossoms

1 May 2019

Our apple tree was a little late to blossom this year but since it has a September deadline we weren't worried. And one day last week we saw it had gotten to work without letting us know.

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Around The Horn

1 May 2019

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 paired images of New York, the Godox AD200, laptops for photo editing and Photo Mechanic Plus Beta 2.

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April Archived

1 May 2019

We've just archived Volume 8 Number 4 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 17 Features, 28 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 191 items of interest), 4 reviews and 2 site notes for a total of 77 stories.

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April

Apple: Migrate Your Aperture Libraries +

30 April 2019

In a support document published yesterday, Apple advised Aperture users to migrate their libraries to Photos or Lightroom Classic because "Aperture won't run in versions of the Mac operating system after macOS Mojave."

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Think Tank Photo Introduces BackLight Elite 45L

30 April 2019

Think Tank Photo has introduced its $399.99 BackLight Elite 45L backpack featuring 45 liters of internal space plus external attachment points for rope, axes, snowboard/skis and a tripod.

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Classic Kids Revives Lovie Project

30 April 2019

Classic Kids Photography has announced the return of The Lovie Project, a charitable initiative that creates display art from images of a lovie, or beloved stuffed toy, in return for a donated new lovie for children in need at the Primo Center for Women and Children in Chicago.

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Topaz: Free Live Training With Joel Wolfson

30 April 2019

Topaz Labs will host Joel Wolfson today for a free webinar titled Sorting It All Out: Topaz's Latest Software.

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Around The Horn

30 April 2019

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 trafficked animals, shelter pets, Bill Phelps, the Curves tool, perspective control lenses, creating composites, a portrait tip and public/private photos.

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Three Pewter Vases

29 April 2019

There was something appealing to us about this composition that we couldn't quite put our finger on. We'd taken the shot last week but we found an fatal flaw when we started editing it. The little vase was askew.

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Around The Horn

29 April 2019

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 Emperor Akihito, Petra Van Der Ree, Perth again, Raw+JPEG, the Canon G15, Seattle's shipwrecks and better-looking skies.

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Matinee: 'Celluloid Babylon: William Mortensen'

27 April 2019

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

27 April 2019

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 Berenice Abbott, Rhiannon Slatter, Harold Davis, seven wedding trends, two lenses, softening shadows, archiving and Brammer v. Violent Hues.

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Friday Slide Show: Lucky Elephants

26 April 2019

Say you saw a set of three small porcelain elephants at a garage sale, marked for sale at $3. Would you bite? Would you wonder if they'll take just $2? Or would you look for some more appealing prop to photograph?

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Remembering Michael Wolf

26 April 2019

Michael Wolf, the German-born photographer who made Hong Kong his home, died suddenly this week at the age of 64. Jasper.

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Around The Horn

26 April 2019

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 climate-change protests, Cactus Blossoms, Perth, multi-shot high-resolution mode, Canon G10 shots, a Nikon Z issue, making a photo zine and Peak Design customer service.

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Book Bag: Harry Gruyaert's 'Edges'

25 April 2019

Magnum member Harry Gruyaert collected his images of oceans, seas and rivers where humans meet the edge of the shoreline and the water begins in a uniquely bound book whose edges themselves are worth noting.

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Sigma Announces May Lens Workshops

25 April 2019

Sigma has announced its May lineup of six Lens Workshops to held in California, Connecticut, Kentucky and New York. Topics include wildlife, portrait and macro photography.

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Tamron Announces 35-150mm Zoom

25 April 2019

Tamron has introduced its 35-150mm f2.8-4 Di VC OSD zoom lens in a compact, lightweight design that uses both low dispersion and aspherical elements to reduce chromatic and spherical aberrations for improved clarity and sharpness.

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Around The Horn

25 April 2019

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 Hamburger Eyes, Cristina Coral, Euan Myles, racial bias, the Instagram aesthetic, optimizing focus again, sensors explained, Luminar 3.1.0 and an Illustrator sneak preview.

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Morning Light

24 April 2019

It was 82 degrees when we wrote this in the cool studio off the garden which we refer to affectionately as the bunker. That's about 20 degrees warmer than it has been around here.

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Zeiss Introduces Fast Otus 100mm Prime

24 April 2019

Zeiss has announced that its Otus 100mm 1.4 prime lens, the fourth of fast f1.4 Otus lenses, will soon join the 18mm, 55mm and 85mm primes in the lineup.

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Around The Horn

24 April 2019

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 Dave Heath, storytelling awards, Coachella, Schwetzingen Castle, sharper iphone photos, a Q&A, iOS 13, the Canon G10, Rokinon/Samyang lenses, optimizing focus and ON1 Photo Raw 2019.5.

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Nikon Announces Rugged Coolpix W150

23 April 2019

Nikon calls its ruggedized Coolpix W150 waterproof and shockproof but it seems it's mainly designed to be kid-proof on vacation. And the color options, none of which is black, would seem designed to appeal to kids too -- particularly the "flower" and "resort" options.

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Book Bag: Two From Ilex on Wildlife Photography

23 April 2019

Ilex has recently published two books on wildlife photography that are at the same time very different and both admirable. One will make your safari more successful and the other will make your backyard a safari.

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Around The Horn

23 April 2019

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 Hashem Shakeri, Venezuelan detention centers, Sri Lanka, Louie Palu, bad advice, a visual palindrome, Garry Winogrand, classic cameras, line of sight, a D500 firmware update and a creative types quiz.

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Celebrate Earth Day with George Turner

22 April 2019

In an Adobe Blog post today, Lex van den Berghe highlights the work of photographer George Turner to celebrate Earth Day. Turner, he writes, "embodies the spirit of Earth Day every day and in everything he does."

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Around The Horn

22 April 2019

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 Josef Hoflehner, Don McCullin, RawTherapee 5.6, the Luminar Library, Garry Winogrand and Shantanu Narayen.

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Happy Easter to All Good Eggs

21 April 2019

There is a bit of pagan frivolity stirred into Easter Sunday's tradition of the Easter Bunny. "Frivolity" not "idolatry," we emphasize. The bunnies are milk chocolate, meant to be devoured, not solid gold intended for worship.

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Matinee: Randal Ford

20 April 2019

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

20 April 2019

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 Argentinian gauchos, Dan Winters, 35mm film, Filmborn and LensRental's $12,000 giveaway.

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Friday Slide Show: Coloring Eggs

19 April 2019

Tomorrow night the tradition of coloring hard boiled eggs will be observed all over the world. It's fortunately not one of those traditions in which the meaning is very meaningful. It's just fun. You color the eggs, they get hidden that night, kids find them in the morning and everyone eats them all week.

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World Press Photo Announces 26th Joop Swart Masterclass

19 April 2019

World Press Photo has announced the masters of the 26th edition of the Joop Swart Masterclass. Since its creation in 1994, the Masterclass has brought together young, promising photographers with the most experienced individuals in visual journalism to share and pass on knowledge and experience.

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Tokina Announces Firin 100mm f2.8 FE Macro

19 April 2019

Tokina has announced a Firin 100mm f2.8 macro lens for the Sony E mount capable of capturing 1:1 images from a foot away. It's the second lens the company has released in the Firin series.

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Around The Horn

19 April 2019

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 Mary Ellen Matthews, San Francisco earthquake photo auction, Godox, wire photos, Billie Weiss, food photography mistakes and Mike Scrutton.

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2019 Sony World Photography Award Winners Announced

18 April 2019

The World Photography Organization has named the overall winners of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards. All winners received Sony digital imaging equipment, publication in the winners' book and their work will be shown as part of the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, London.

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Lemke Software Releases Graphic Converter 10.7

18 April 2019

Earlier this month, Lemkesoft released GraphicConverter 10.7, the Swiss Army knife image editing utility, with new and updated features plus a few bug fixes.

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Around The Horn

18 April 2019

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 simulating Mars, alien lands, early photography, Andrew Quilty shunned, DeNoise AI, the digital transition and Vanelli.

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Test Drive: Capture One's Editorial Color Grading Styles

17 April 2019

When Capture One introduced its Editorial Color Grading Styles in February, we grabbed a copy of all three style packs to test drive.

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Leitz Photographica Auction Unveils Rare Gems

17 April 2019

Leitz Photographica Auction will host its 34th auction featuring a selection of rare Leicas on June 8.

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Around The Horn

17 April 2019

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 interior of Notre Dame, Martin Parr, NBA photographers, Colleen Scott, choosing a mirrorless lens and 10 common mistakes.

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Hasselblad Spotlights 'Hasselblad Heroines'

16 April 2019

Hasselblad has concluded the first installment of its Hasselblad Heroines, a series of profiles of women photographers updated weekly. In each piece the featured Heroine shares her experiences, tips and inspiration with fellow photographers.

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Think Tank Photo Introduces PhotoCross 15 Backpack

16 April 2019

Think Tank Photo has introduced the MindShift PhotoCross 15 backpack. Built to withstand the elements, the new backpack fits an ungripped dSLR, three to five lenses, including a 70-200mm f2.8 attached to a body, and up to a 15-inch laptop. A side panel provides quick access without slipping the backpack off.

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Around The Horn

16 April 2019

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 Notre Dame, AOP awards, color toning methods, the Ezybox Speed-Lite plus Henry Diltz and Mick Rock.

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Pulitzer Winners in Photography Announced

15 April 2019

Among the Pulitzer Prizes announced today were two photography honors in the categories of Breaking News and Feature Photography, each of which carry awards of $15,000.

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Monetization

15 April 2019

Currently on exhibit at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, Monet: The Late Years features nearly 50 paintings by Claude Monet dating mainly from 1913 to 1926. We wandered through the galleries yesterday, dodging the smartphones and taking it all in.

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Around The Horn

15 April 2019

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 Bill Owens at Altamont, Carl Oliver Ander, Scott Kelly, Nikon primes, the state of the art, the Ricoh GR III, learning from others, what photography is and Brianna Wettlaufer.

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Matinee: 'Skinningrove'

13 April 2019

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

13 April 2019

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 Murray Orr, Myla Goldberg, Robin Wong, CJ Clarke, Emily Chang and Copyright Office passwords.

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Friday Slide Show: Saint Lighting

12 April 2019

We almost titled today's show Friday Side Show, a slip of telling dimensions. Cities look their best at a distance, we think. Preferably with a sunset behind the skyline.

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World Press Photo Contests Winners Announced

12 April 2019

The World Press Photo Foundation has announced the results of its 62nd annual World Press Photo Contest and the 9th annual World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest.

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Around The Horn

12 April 2019

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 Sudan protests, World Press Photo Contest, event photography, JS Ondara, that fly, Jim Colton, camera lenses primer, dog and cat behavior and that Black Hole photo.

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The Unicorn We Know

11 April 2019

Better the unicorn you know than the one you don't, we thought, passing this garden statuary yesterday morning. So we uncapped the lens, lined up the shot and bagged the mythological creature.

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Around The Horn

11 April 2019

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 Mount Fanjing, Alexis Pichot, Yoko Ishii, the history of photography, nosebleed ISOs, a visual trend of 2019 and transformative visual tech.

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Sony Updates Firmware For a7/a7R III

11 April 2019

Sony has released Software Version 3.0, a firmware update for its a7 III and a7R III that enhances real-time eye autofocus performance and adds real-time animal eye autofocus and interval shooting for time lapse.

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Site Note: Tracking Follies

10 April 2019

In May 24, we detailed Our Tracking Policy, highlighting the status message in the left column of our headline page that indicates how you've set the tracking preference in your browser.

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Around The Horn

10 April 2019

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 a black hole, Francis Hodgson, Chris Gillett, Los Angeles, Nikon Z shadow noise and Cory Richards.

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Canon Announces Rebel SL3

9 April 2019

Canon has announced its Rebel SL3 featuring 4K video and Dual Pixel CMOS AF with Eye Detection AF in Live View shooting mode. The SL3 is also the lightest and smallest camera in the EOS lineup, the company said.

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Rory Doyle Wins Zeiss Photography Award

9 April 2019

The World Photography Organization has announced that American photographer Rory Doyle has won the fourth annual Zeiss Photography Award for his series Delta Hill Riders.

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Around The Horn +

9 April 2019

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 Shahidul Alam, Rwanda, Sony FE mount primes, processing Raw files, stock photography, a gate on Gilman, Julieanne Kost, HDR, ScanMyPhotos and Pixelmator Photo.

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Saving Time

8 April 2019

Remember that refrigerator story from last month? Part of the solution has been to do a little plumbing and electrical work for the new unit. Electrical work requires shutting off power at the circuit breaker for any particular outlet and we did that. When we turned power back on, though, the wall clock wasn't moving.

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Around The Horn

8 April 2019

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 Rwanda, derivative works, what a photo is about, legal advice for clients, Lexar's compact external SSDs and an RIP for a reader.

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Matinee: 'Tripe | Ruff' by Thomas Ruff

6 April 2019

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

6 April 2019

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 golf balls, dogs, the Panasonic G95's video, zone focusing and vignetting.

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Sony Adds Five Artisans of Imagery

5 April 2019

Sony has announced five new photographers have been added to its Artisans of Imagery Ambassadors program. The five include Paul Nicklen, Taylor Rees, David Burnett, Jean Fruth and Nancy Borowick.

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Friday Slide Show: Blossoms in the Rain

5 April 2019

If you've been following the bouncing ball here this week, you know we weren't very happy with the images of cherry blossoms we took on a rainy day earlier this week. And yet here they are, featured in our weekly slide show.

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Around The Horn

5 April 2019

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 Gail Albert Halaban, Tara Todras-Whitehill, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, the Learning Light, Sigma primes, Kodak Everyday and the Copyright Office's strategic plan.

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Panasonic Introduces Mirrorless Lumix G95 Rugged Hybrid

5 April 2019

Panasonic has introduced its Lumix G95 (labeled G99 in Japan and G90 elsewhere) to North America featuring a Micro Four Thirds 20.3-megapizel sensor without a low-pass filter to enhance sharpness, 5-axis dual image stabilization and 4K video.

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Panasonic Updates Lumix G 14-140mm Zoom

5 April 2019

Panasonic has updated its Micro Four Thirds Lumix G 14-140mm zoom lens with a splash/dust-resistant construction that retains its compact and lightweight design. The f3.5-5.6 lens also features a 28-280mm 35mm equivalent range, optical image stabilization.

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The Giving Tree

4 April 2019

It's hard to walk by this stump of a tree down the hill from us without thinking of The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. There isn't much left of it, suffice to say, yet it would be missed if ever uprooted.

That's partly because Chou Chou, the French bistro behind it that takes its name from the sound a train makes (without a French accent), painted its exterior in a brilliant orange.

And there's no little irony involved in arguing it would look better without the suckers sprouting from its trunk. And to prove it, just use the rollover buttons to see for yourself.

If only gardening were as easy as image editing.

It strikes us, in fact, as more a work of modern art than a plant. It's arms seem to be whirling in dance as the trunk spins around. And yet it's firmly rooted to the ground. Ground, we note, which is green with grass from the recent rains.

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Copytrack Publishes Global Infringement Report

4 April 2019

Copytrack has published its Global Infringement Report 2019 analyzing online image theft worldwide. Of the three billion images shared online each day, he company said, around 85 percent are unlicensed, with estimated revenue lost at more than $600 million daily.

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Around The Horn

4 April 2019

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 Brooklyn's Italian Williamsburg, salt mines, stylish Welsh children, Ming Thein, Stephen Gill, a fisheye landscape, the Olympus OM-D E-M1X and Luminar Flex.

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So Much For Spring

3 April 2019

Our brief dalliance with spring ended with the weekend. It's on to summer weather, apparently. Which is to say, fog.

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DNP Updates Snap Lab Software

3 April 2019

DNP has released an update of its Snap Lab SL620A software featuring a range of functional updates and improvements. You can now transfer images from smartphones without installing the DNP mobile app and a new index print of thumbnails is available.

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Around The Horn

3 April 2019

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 Smithsonian contest winners, N.Y.'s Photography Show, Harold Davis, the 2019 Nikon Surf Photo of the Year, Victoria Siemer, Pixelmator Photo, retail photos and free resources for photographers.

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Adobe Releases 2019 Creative Cloud Video Updates

3 April 2019

As broadcasters gather for the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Adobe has released updates to the video and audio applications in its Creative Cloud suite. Updates to Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition and Character Animator, among others, are available now to Creative Cloud subscribers.

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Test Drive: Alien Skin's Exposure X4.5

2 April 2019

Alien Skin released a free update to Exposure X4, its Raw photo editor, adding Look-Up Table support, new image copy and organizing tools, configurable keyboard shortcuts, enhanced metadata options and new light effect overlays.

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Around The Horn

2 April 2019

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 Elia Alba, Luke Hayes, the Fujifilm GFX 50R, the Nikon 1, zooming and a free 10-week portrait challenge.

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Site Tweak: Expanded Editorial Counts

1 April 2019

When we wrote our Keyboard Maestro macro to count the stories in each category that we've published this month, we realized it had a shortcoming. It only reported the current month.

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Around The Horn

1 April 2019

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 Mauricio Lima, Japanese cherry blossom, Paolo Di Paolo, Kyle RM Johnson, searching photos with Siri and Scott Kelby's new book, carefully avoiding the April Fools' fodder out there.

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March Archived

1 April 2019

As is our obsession, we've just archived Volume 8 Number 3 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 26 Features, 16 commented News stories, 29 Editor's Notes (which included 192 items of interest), one review and one site note for a total of 73 stories.

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Get Off To A Great Start With Beginner's Flash

DESIGNED TO BE UNDERSTOOD without a background in photography, each of these 134 essays addresses some facet of photographic fun.

Some are tips, others tutorials, still others explanations of some of the more interesting aspects of the art. All of them are written in a uniquely engaging style.

At 18 cents each, you pay just $24.95 for this collection -- unless you become a subscriber (it's one of the free benefits our subscribers enjoy).

Visit our Beginner's Flash information page for more information. Or click the Buy button:

Wait a Minute ...

10 December 2012

It would almost always catch us by surprise. We'd advance the film on our Nikon FM2 only to find out we'd already taken the last shot.

Sometimes that happens in life, too.

After 13 years as the editor of the Imaging Resource Newsletter, we have parted ways. It's going one way, we're going another.

We wish the company well and remain grateful for the opportunity to discuss our passion for getting the picture with each reader who welcomed such a long email every two weeks in their inbox.

But as we used to tell our (usually) patient subject when we realized we had to put a new roll of film in the camera, "Wait a minute!"

Because we aren't done yet.

And this publication is our way of continuing to discuss our passion for getting the picture. We have several reviews in progress, covering tablet software, new image editing software for the desktop, LED lighting and more.

And this is where you'll be able to read about it.

So we hope you'll join us as we publish here at Photo Corners. If you like the idea, support us with a sponsorship or a subscription. Both come with some benefits right away and more to follow.

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