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Friday Slide Show: Viansa

20 April 2018

Once upon a time we kept the Rumbalino garaged in Sonoma and would visit it there on a weekend now and then. We never used the kitchen in the adjoining house because the house was vacant and there were no staples on the shelves. So we would stop along the way to buy lunch.

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Around The Horn

20 April 2018

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 Great Wall, Killer whales, prison life, Photo Studio AR, the Gila National Forest and Nikon nostalgia.

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2018 Sony World Photography Awards Winners Announced

19 April 2018

The World Photography Organization has named the winners of the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards at a London ceremony. Photographer of the Year, professional category winners and the Open, Youth and Student winners were announced.

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Phase One Releases Capture One 11.1

19 April 2018

Phase One has released Capture One Pro 11.1 with a new support platform, improved styles and presets and a normalization tool. In addition, the new release supports new cameras from Fujifilm, Leica, Olympus, Panasonic and Sony as well as new lenses from Canon, Leica, Sony and Tamron. Tethered support for Sony cameras now permits camera control from an iOS device.

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Meyer-Optik-Gorlitz Kickstarts APO Plasmat 105 f2.7

19 April 2018

German lens manufacturer Meyer-Optik-Gorlitz has launched a Kickstarter campaign to revive and modernize the Plasmat 105mm lens.

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Around The Horn

19 April 2018

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 Michael McCoy, the Hubble at 28, a Carmelite ceiling and Iceland.

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Around The Horn

18 April 2018

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 ship hulls, fish, blue bottles, Raw editing on phones and a focus stacking problem.

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Neighbors

17 April 2018

Once upon a time -- and it wasn't long ago -- we walked by the yellow house and saw an older fellow installing the white picket fence, board by board. It got a fresh coat of paint and made a happy little scene.

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Around The Horn

17 April 2018

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 Kost in Berlin, Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, rare Dorothea Lange photos, the Fujifilm X-A5 and the Sony 12-24mm f4G lens.

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Pulitzer Winners In Photography Announced

16 April 2018

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 $10,000.

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Achenbach's Ganz Moves To The Getty

16 April 2018

The Getty Museum has announced the appointment of James A. Ganz to Senior Curator of Photographs. He will join the Getty in July after 10 years at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where he served as Curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts.

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Around The Horn

16 April 2018

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 Speed Project, Nina Leen, memory card options, visual note taking, digitizing old film, strobing the sun and the Stamp Lady.

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Matinee: 'Sanderson to Brackettville'

14 April 2018

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

14 April 2018

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 Anne Wilkes Tucker, Anja Niemi, stylized wedding photoshoots, checking a camera bag and Lloyd Chambers.

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The Scrolling Home Page Experiment +

13 April 2018

After tinkering with it for a while, we just can't decide whether or not we prefer it. That would be the experimental Scrolling Home Page we recently mentioned we have been working on.

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Friday Slide Show: Two Rocks

13 April 2018

For a long time we've kept two rocks by our side. They have outlived our typewriters and computers and quite a few pens and pencils, too. One of them we acquired in 1973 and the other in 2003, in different centuries on different continents.

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MindShift Gear Announces BackLight 18L Daypack

13 April 2018

MindShift Gear has announced an 18-liter version of its BackLight series, the $199.99 BackLight 18L rear-panel backpack. This smaller, lightweight daypack enables you to access gear without taking off the backpack. Just rotate the bag to the front while the waist belt is still secured.

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Around The Horn

13 April 2018

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 skateboarding, wrestling, two Art lenses, oxalis and Watson chargers.

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Ronaldo Schemidt Wins World Press Photo of the Year Award

12 April 2018

At its annual Awards Show in Amsterdam, the World Press Photo Foundation announced Ronaldo Schemidt has won its Photo of the Year Award.

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Around The Horn

12 April 2018

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 China, Scotland, Instagram, printing photos, a Luminar bundle and a Photo Mechanic deal.

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A Double Twist

11 April 2018

We not only edit Photo Corners, we read it. And when we read about Olympus' 2x digital zoom in a recent Around The Horn, we dug up the manual for our E-PL1 to see about it.

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Around The Horn

11 April 2018

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 Brassai, the 1918 Flu Pandemic, Blockchain and exporting a still from video.

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MindShift Gear Announces Exposure Shoulder Bags

10 April 2018

MindShift Gear has announced its Exposure 15 and 13 shoulder bags designed with the outdoor photographer in mind. Holding less gear but offering quicker access than a backpack, they can quickly be swiveled to access other lenses and bodies.

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Around The Horn

10 April 2018

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 Meteora, squatting, ring lights and the OVF vs. EVF battle.

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Leica Announces Super Vario Elmar SL 16-35/3.5-4.5

9 April 2018

Leica has announced its Super Vario Elmar SL 16-35/3.5-4.5 ASPH. zoom lens as well as an SL firmware update coming April 23. The new ultra wide-angle lens rounds out the current zoom lens portfolio for the SL family which now covers a range of focal lengths from 16 to 280mm.

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Around The Horn

9 April 2018

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 luchadores, Ray Simone, a 2x digital zoom to love, Photo Camp and the lost Warhols.

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Matinee: Renato D'Agostin's '7439'

7 April 2018

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

7 April 2018

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 Geoff Dyer on Garry Winogrand, Pond5, photo detritus and baseball in Cuba.

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Friday Slide Show: Spring Poppies

6 April 2018

Piove. It's raining. The Italian (pee-OH-vay) for some reason always strikes us as more definitive. Perhaps because when it rained in Liguria it meant the oppressive humidity would drop. So we would look out the window and say, with some relief, "Piove."

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Around The Horn

6 April 2018

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 Maxime Fossat in Madagascar, John Moore at the border, revisiting a scene, using Capture One Pro with Luminar and designing the 2019 Mac Pro.

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Olympus Brings PEN E-PL9 To North America

5 April 2018

Olympus announced it has brought its PEN E-PL9 mirrorless camera to North America. The E-PL9, announced in February, features 4K video with an option to extract stills, 121-point contrast detection autofocus, built-in WiFi and always-on Bluetooth LE and 16 art filters.

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Capture One Launches 'Dedication' Photo Competition

5 April 2018

Capture One has launched a photography competition on social media open to photographers around the world as part of its Dedication Campaign, aimed at showcasing the inspiration behind the images photographers create.

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Redondo, Hegen Win BJP Drone Award

5 April 2018

The British Journal of Photography has awarded its 2018 Drone Photography Award to Markel Redondo and Tom Hegen. Redondo's Sand Castles (Part II) explores the estimated 3.4 million deserted houses in Spain. Hegen's Salt Series documents salt production across Europe.

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Around The Horn

5 April 2018

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 April blossoms, two 15mm lenses, Markus Brunetti, Elad Lassry and Peak Design's new store.

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The Stone Wall

4 April 2018

Little kids like to pile one thing on top of another. "What are you doing?" we ask. "Building," they reply seriously. The illusion persists until their pile collapses in a heap. They weren't really building anything after all. They were playing.

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Around The Horn

4 April 2018

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 Martin Luther King Jr., Balkan land mines, Marilyn Monroe, street photography tips, the $11 Wein WP1000 Flashmeter and macOS 10.13.4 disabling external monitors.

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Site Tweak: Of Scrollbars And Buttons

3 April 2018

As we mentioned in our archive story, we've been experimenting with a new home page layout that allows the left and right content sections to scroll independently while keeping the masthead and footer visible.

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Adobe Updates Camera Raw, Lightroom, Photoshop

3 April 2018

At the heart of Adobe's updates to its Photography Plan heavyweights Lightroom and Photoshop is the inclusion of more powerful profiles for Raw files and a new suite of Creative profiles in Adobe Camera Raw. At the same time, the company tweaked the desktop and mobile applications in minor but important ways.

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Nick Hannes Wins 2018 Zeiss Photography Award

3 April 2018

Belgian photographer Nick Hannes has been award the 2018 Zeiss Photography Award for his series Garden of Delight exploring "globalization and capitalism and raising questions about authenticity and sustainability." The World Photo Organization also recognized the work of nine other photographers.

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Around The Horn

3 April 2018

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 Holy Week, Sydney, Jorge Alva, night photograph, the Sigma 14mm f1.8 HSM Art lens, hosting sites and Gnarbox 2.0 SSD.

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Around The Horn

2 April 2018

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 portraits of North Korean defectors, a rare shot of James Mattis, Edward Weston's kitchen, the iPhone as accessory, Icelandic mountains and having your photos printed.

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Happy Easter, Passover, April Fools' Day!

1 April 2018

So if we understand the ground rules, the best way to enjoy today's triple threat is to spend the morning celebrating Easter with an egg hunt or prosecco-sodden brunch, the afternoon still at the table celebrating Passover by telling a few stories and the evening doing something silly to amaze your foolish friends.

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March Archived

1 April 2018

We've just updated the Archive with the 74 stories we published during March in Volume 7 Number 3 of Photo Corners. We've must have saved entire forests by publishing exclusively online since 2012.

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March

Matinee: Ian McNaught Davis' 'Georgian Moments'

31 March 2018

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

31 March 2018

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 Alberto Selvestrel, Sally Mann, the Nikon 70-210mm AF-D, phone photography and the Just Mobile ShutterGrip.

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Friday Slide Show: From the Living Wall

30 March 2018

Enormous as it is, the extension to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is hard to see. It rises behind the original building along an alley and just one city street with plenty of tall neighbors hiding it from view.

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Around The Horn

30 March 2018

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 Dr. King, Jarle Hagen, spectrometry, portraiture, the Nikon D7500 and a camera lost at sea.

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DxO Announces Free PhotoLab Webinars

29 March 2018

DxO has announced two free one-hour webinars covering PhotoLab, its image editing software featuring U-Point technology. The seminars will be presented by professional photographer Jochen Kohl. Registration is required.

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Photostory Virtual Reality Software Released

29 March 2018

MAGIX Software has released Photostory Premium VR, its first virtual reality software, to create virtual worlds in just a few steps with conventional photos and videos without additional hardware.

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Around The Horn

29 March 2018

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 Kyoto cherry blossoms, a $20 DIY portable doorway, making a portfolio, the D700 revisited, bias in facial recognition software, successful habits, another form of success, an Ester lottery and the Cuba of Ramiro Fernandez.

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Meyer-Optik-Gorlitz Announces Nocturnus III 50mm f0.95

28 March 2018

Meyer-Optik has announced the Nocturnus III 50 f0.95, the third edition of the 50mm optic. The super-fast manual-focus lens is optimized for use with full-frame sensors, the company said, but also works with APS-C cameras. The new design, with mounts for Sony-E, Fuji-X and Leica M, is being offered at a pre-release discount for the next 14 days.

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Around The Horn

28 March 2018

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 sandstorms, Kirk Tuck, attachment rate, getting into flash and flash vs. babies.

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Site Tweak: Ridiculous Revision To A Silly Decision

27 March 2018

Sometimes a metaphor can confuse more than it enlightens. But the thing about metaphors is that they're very convincing. So even as it's confusing you, you think it's making an unassailable point.

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Around The Horn

27 March 2018

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 Federica Armstrong, Elise Swopes, Peter Funch, GIMP 2.10.0 RC and Foxconn.

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'The Merge' Wins International Photography Award 2018

27 March 2018

The Merge, a visual exploration of the possibility that we are living inside a simulation by the Copenhagen-based collective of Sara Galbiati, Peter Eriksen and Tobias Markussen has won the British Journal of Photography's International Photography Award 2018.

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Adobe Drops Muse Development +

27 March 2018

In a product announcement on the Muse Web site today, Adobe announced "the end of new feature development for Adobe Muse CC" as of yesterday. The product will continue to launch and you will be able to edit sites built with the tool but no compatibility updates or bug fixes will be delivered.

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Carolyn Drake's 'Wild Pigeon'

26 March 2018

Now showing in SFMOMA's New to the Collection room for its new acquisitions, Carolyn Drake's Wild Pigeon reaches beyond documentary photography to fine art to tell the story of the Uyghurs of western China.

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Around The Horn

26 March 2018

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 March for Our Lives, clouds for NASA, why it's quiet, successful photographers, a bag inventory, an egg and posting Raw files.

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Live Photos Of 'March For Our Lives' Protests

24 March 2018

The New York Times is publishing live photos and maps of the international March for Our Lives protests today.

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Matinee: 'Irish Professional Photographer of the Year Awards'

24 March 2018

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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Friday Slide Show: Laguna Honda Mural +

23 March 2018

When Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2016, it was honored with a new mural along its 200-foot retaining wall. That, however, was only stage one of a three stage process undertaken by the Precita Eyes Muralists.

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Adobe Launches Partners Deals

23 March 2018

In an email to Creative Cloud subscribers today, Adobe announced special offers from 12 partners on creative tools, training and more. All of the deals, however, expire on March 31.

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Getty Images Releases Watermarks for Water Series

23 March 2018

Getty Images has launched is Watermarks for Water collection of several hundred watermarked images "to help raise awareness and funds for the global water crisis." Licensed images have the watermarked removed and 10 percent of the fee donated to charity while shared images keep the watermark and add a fact about the importance of clean drinking water.

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Boinx Software Releases MimoLive 4

23 March 2018

Boinx Software has announced the release of mimoLive 4, the multi-in/multi-out live video engine for macOs formerly known as BoinxTV. The new version adds easy multi-endpoint streaming, a process to work with viewer comments on YouTube and Facebook, a multi-view to keep an eye on your video sources and more.

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Around The Horn

23 March 2018

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 abandoned bikes, portraits of detained immigrants, 150 mirrorless lenses, five lighting diagrams, Facebook, Darktable and the need to publish violent photos.

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LaserSoft Imaging Announces New Calibration Targets

22 March 2018

LaserSoft Imaging has announced a new generation of scanner targets designed to provide "significantly higher accuracy" wit 600 additional measuring points. The new targets will be available at a special introductory price through March.

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Deals: DxO 25 Pct. Easter Discount

22 March 2018

DxO is offering a 25 percent discount on all its software, including the recently released PhotoLab, through April 2.

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Around The Horn

22 March 2018

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 James Webb Space Telescope, the Anonymous Project, Bill Cunningham's secret memoir and a strange fate befalls three of our favorites.

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SFMOMA To Exhibit Exclusive Meiselas Retrospective

21 March 2018

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced it will exhibit Susan Meiselas: Mediations from July 21 through Oct. 21, the exclusive U.S. retrospective of the American photographer.

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Around The Horn

21 March 2018

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 corporate office life, #girlgaze, window light, Jesse James, Putin, RawTherapee and Lytro.

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Sony World Photo Awards Announces Best Single Images

20 March 2018

The Sony World Photography Awards has announced the winners of its Open competition and National Awards.

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Around The Horn

20 March 2018

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 Paralympics, Puerto Rico, the War in Iraq, Humza Deas, Photoshop's layer options, the need to edit and a used gear sale.

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Alien Skin Releases Exposure X3 Complete Workflow Update +

20 March 2018

Alien Skin has released the Exposure X3 Complete Workflow Update, the latest version of their non-destructive Raw photo editor, with enhancements to handle the full photography workflow.

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Revisiting SFMOMA's 'The Train'

19 March 2018

One of the perks of this job is getting invitations to press briefings of various sorts, not the least of which are for SFMOMA's photography shows. But when the invitation to preview The Train arrived, it sat in our in-box for weeks without a reply.

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Catchlight Announces 2018 Fellowship Shortlist

19 March 2018

CatchLight has announced the shortlist for the CatchLight Fellowship, which recognizes excellence in the novel use of photography to depict and bring awareness to challenging social issues.

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Around The Horn

19 March 2018

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 Vigeland Park, a Nikon D2XS goes back to work, Kasson's worst camera, the Think Tank Storyteller 8 bag, the Illuminati light meter, Google Lens and HEIF Support in Windows 10.

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Matinee: Bobby

17 March 2018

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

17 March 2018

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 Barbara Baker Burrows, the Nikon D700, Leica M mount lenses on the X1D and Joel Meyerowitz in five images.

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Canon's Chuck Westfall Is Dead At 65

17 March 2018

Chuck Westfall, who nurtured the budding digital imaging industry with candor and kindness as Canon's media spokesperson for professional imagine products, has passed away after a long fight with kidney cancer at the age of 65.

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Friday Slide Show: Bouquets To Art 2018

16 March 2018

We risked our life yesterday to present this slide show to you today. Not only did we navigate the city streets during a torrential downpour, but we survived the crush of visitors to the de Young Museum for the Bouquets to Art 2018.

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Around The Horn

16 March 2018

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 Meryl Meisler, surfing Norway, Alessandro D'Angelo, Harold Davis, Serelay and Sony PDAF striping.

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Test Drive: Flexi LED Macro Flash

15 March 2018

We weren't expecting much but we were intrigued. Could this odd-looking twin-panel LED flash illuminate our macro shots with enough power to let us stop down for more depth of field?

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Around The Horn

15 March 2018

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 yesterday's school walkout, the gardens' secrets, Easter Island, STEVE, the Kamoinge Collective, Colin Combs, the iMac Pro and lawyer ads.

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BJP Publishes Pannack's 'Separation' Portrait Series

14 March 2018

The British Journal of Photography has published London-based photographer Laura Pannack's Separation, a series of portraits of 13 couples that explores their situation in the wake of the June 2016 Brexit vote. The series was commissioned by the Journal and created using Affinity Photo for iPad.

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Oberwerth Announces Charlie Camera Bag

14 March 2018

Oberwerth has unveiled Charlie, the last camera bag in its Casual line, designed for mirrorless and dSLR cameras. Charlie's compact form factor is aimed at "minimalists and travel enthusiasts," the company said, offering enough space just the necessities: a camera like the Leica M, Leica CL, Sony Alpha 6000 or Olympus OM-D and an interchangeable lens.

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Around The Horn

14 March 2018

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 student gun protests today, five freelancers, captions for Google images, freelancing advice, Live Photo tricks, displaying your photos, Reuben Wu and Harry Benson's RFK.

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Book Bag: 'Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself'

13 March 2018

Can you, we wondered as we lugged the immense tome over to a table large enough to hold it open, cram a retrospective of a 56-year career as a photographer into a book? Ill advised, we thought.

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Leica Release New D-Lux Explorer Kit

13 March 2018

Leica has announced a new version of its D-Lux Explorer Kit with an automatic lens cap and improved Leica Rope Strap in a vibrant red.

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Adobe Starts Emailing Notice Of Creative Cloud Price Increase

13 March 2018

As announced during MAX 2017, Adobe has begun sending email notifications of price increases to its Creative Cloud suite of applications. The "next generation of Creative Cloud" includes five new applications, including Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC and Adobe Spark.

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Around The Horn

13 March 2018

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 Eastern Ghouta, National Geographic, the Mississippi Delta, George Digalakis, navigating Photoshop documents, Imatag and a Texas barbecue.

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Is The Print Primary?

12 March 2018

One of the benefits of attending a fair like Photofairs San Francisco is being exposed not just to thrilling images but interesting ideas. The panel discussion we attended was a bit short on the ideas themselves but gave us a few names to research. And that's where we found the ideas.

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Around The Horn

12 March 2018

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 Andy Richter's yoga shots, Sven Laurent, humanity in one image, Wawarsing's knife industry, Patricia Niven, monochromes on Instagram, Tuck's reflections and signage.

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Matinee: 'Mark Steinmetz: Terminus'

10 March 2018

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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Spring Forward

10 March 2018

Public service measured very high in our recent combined blood test. Which must explain why we feel the urge to remind you that Daylight Saving Time (for those of us who observe it) takes effect at 2 a.m. tomorrow. Which instantly becomes 3 a.m.

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Around The Horn

10 March 2018

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 Masha Ivashintsova, the Trevi Foutain Photoshoopped, layers in Capture One Pro 11 and Lightroom on the iMac Pro 18-Core.

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Friday Slide Show: Building A Stadium

9 March 2018

Don't get us started on stadiums. (Ah, too late.) We happened to be in the Mission Bay neighborhood this week so we took a look at the new facility the Warriors are building. We don't know who choreographs the dancing cranes but it was a marvelous show in itself.

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How To Extract A JPEG From A Raw File

9 March 2018

For a few years now we've been capturing images as Raw files only. Raw files are not themselves image files. Their data has to be processed into an image. And we enjoy using Lightroom to do that quickly in batches or other image editing software to do them one at a time.

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Winners Of South American 6x6 Global Talent Program Announced

9 March 2018

The World Press Photo Foundation has recognized six photographers from South America in the second edition of the 6x6 Global Talent Program.

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Around The Horn

9 March 2018

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 Toni Frissell, Lola Flash, MoMA's new group show, Moab Entrada Rag and Lightroom on a Chromebook.

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Leica, Wainwrite Collaborate On Special Edition M

8 March 2018

Leica has collaborated with Rag & Bones CEO Marcus Wainwright on the Stealth Edition M Monochrom with a Summicron-M 35mm f2 ASPH. lens. The redesign of the unobstrusive M features " unique matte black look and glow-in-the-dark accents for added functionality."

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Around The Horn

8 March 2018

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 Marcus Wainwright, German aerials, the early days, 40mm Micro Four Thirds lenses, Micro Four Thirds sports photography, Chris Moore, concert photography and a copyright troll.

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ON1 Releases Photo Raw 2018.1

7 March 2018

ON1 has released Photo Raw 2018.1, the first major update to its image editing software following the initial release in November 2017.

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Deals: 35 Pct. Off Rocky Nook Female Authors

7 March 2018

Rocky Nook announced a 35 percent discount on photography titles authored by female authors throughout National Women's Month.

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Around The Horn

7 March 2018

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 Chris Hondros, lighting, TetherBlock, a lens sale and Trevor Paglen.

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A Photo For A Poet

6 March 2018

The University of California at Santa Barbara English professor Harvey Mudrick used to extoll the virtues of long books like Boswell's Life of Johnson because, like jaw breakers, they last.

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Wacom Introduces New Intuos Pen Tablet

6 March 2018

Wacom announced an update to its Intuos pen tablet that features two sizes, Bluetooth connectivity on some models, bundled software worth up to $160 and three color choices. A built-in pen tray, four express keys, an LED indicator and in the Bluetooth models a 60 percent improvement on battery life are also included.

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Around The Horn

6 March 2018

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 Hannah Reyes Morales, the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards, Arlene Gottfried, the Nikon D850, a few Photoshop tools, SD cards and The Fence.

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BJP Reveals International Photography Award Shortlist

6 March 2018

The British Journal of Photography has announced the shortlist for its 14th annual International Photography Award. The award, will bestows £5,000 on the winner, who will be announced March 27.

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Around The Horn

5 March 2018

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 Ralph Gibson, Dayron Vera, flash or continuous lighting, the Elinchrome ELB 500, the Olympus OM-D E-M5 (and Nikon D2XS), AMZL Photo on Delivery and the recent court decision on embedding images.

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Site Tweak: Expanded Calendar

5 March 2018

After our slide show of PhotoFairs San Francisco Friday, a subscriber mentioned the upcoming The Photographic Show in Birmigham, England. He suggested we might put it in our Calendar listings.

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Matinee: Two Perspectives

3 March 2018

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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Friday Slide Show: PhotoFairs San Francisco

2 March 2018

Last Friday we spent the afternoon at PhotoFairs San Francisco. The fair describes itself as a high-curated, boutique fair offering collectors and curators access to artists and galleries rarely seen in the Bay Area.

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Krogh Accepting 'The DAM Book 3.0' Pre-Orders

2 March 2018

In his DAM Useful Newsletter, Peter Krogh announced he is now accepting pre-orders for The Dam Book 3.0, his compendium on digital asset management.

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Around The Horn

2 March 2018

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 2018 Pictures of the Year winners, Smithsonian Magazine's 2017 photo contest finalists, Roger Ballen, the Kodak Scanza, the Olympus E-1, Jeff Cable and Mike Johnston's first podcast.

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Phase One Video Series Explores Professional Creativity

1 March 2018

Phase One has announced a new video series showcasing the dedication and personal stories behind professional photographers who use Capture One image editing software.

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Around The Horn

1 March 2018

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 European freeze, Pau Buscato, Papua New Guinea, the 2018 Daylight Photo Awards, two new Voightlander FE lenses and a gallery talk.

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February Archived

1 March 2018

We've just archived Volume 5 Number 2 of Photo Corners with 13 Features, 37 commented news stories, 25 Editor's Notes (which included over 115 items of interest), two reviews and one site note for a total of 78 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.

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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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