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Around The Horn
3 November 2016
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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at lens faults, Photoshop's new in-application search, model behavior and National Geographic Nature contest entries.
- You can make coffee to get rolling in the morning or just read Roger Cicala. In Fun with Field of Focus II: Copy-to-Copy Variation and Lens Testing, he buries this rant under som OLAF charts:
Calling everything that's wrong with a lens 'decentering' is like calling every reason your car won't start 'out of gas.' Posting a picture online with the question "Do you think my lens is decentered?" is about as useful as posting a picture of a car with the question "Do you think my car's out of gas?" The proper technical term for a lens that is soft on one side is, read this carefully, 'soft on one side.' The proper technical term for a lens that is not as sharp as other lenses of its ilk is, to be accurate and technical, 'not as sharp as other copies.'
- Julieanne Kost demos In-Application Search in Photoshop CC 2017 (which we found more relevant than her Hidden Gems presentation because there aren't any):
- In Model And Model Behavior, Greenberg and Reznicki advise modles, "Do not leave the shoot without a completed, signed release which complies in all respects with the deal that has been made and as you understand it." Works for photographers, too.
- Alan Taylor presents 27 photos in 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest, Part II. The contest ends Friday with a grand prize of a 10-day trip for two to the Galapagos Islands.
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