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5 February 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 a Super Bowl story, Kerstin Kuntze, Alper Yesiltas' window, using an external drive for your photo library, cropped lenses on full frame cameras and sensor design.
- The Search for Jackie Wallace is a different kind of Super Bowl story. Wallace played in three of them but photojournalist Ted Jackson found him on the streets in 1990. "You ought to do a story about me," Wallace told him. He did more than that. He became his friend.
- Wasserlust highlights German photographer Kerstin Kuntze's underwater images. "My focus is on what it means to be human. The expression of life, desire, passion, longing, all the emotions from bright red to the darkest black," she says.
- Photographer Alper Yesiltas Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished the Building presents a few of the Instanbul photographer's images as well as his own story about them and a reflection on photography itself.
- How to Transfer Your iPhone or Mac Photo Library to an External Drive explains "how to shift the Photos Library to a new location while keeping all images safe and intact." Which is a good move if you might want to free up space on your device or be able the share the library across multiple devices.
- Derrick Story tried Cropped Lenses on Full Frame Cameras and was pleased with the results even as they defied conventional wisdom. ‘But please: Do your research first (I did)," he warns.
- Thom Hogan points out "a couple of things" in An Intriguing Analysis by Emmett Rad in Multivariate Analysis on Image Sensor Classification and Variability. "Sensor makers, again particularly Sony/Nikon where the trend is crystal clear, seem to have specific goals they've been pursuing as they try to make sensors better," Hogan writes.
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