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Around The Horn
14 August 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 2003 Blackout, Donna Gottschalk, more Blend mode tips, new gear, the Nixplay Iris, color mapping, Frank Ockenfels and Albert Watson.
- It's been 15 Years Since the 2003 Northeast Blackout and Alan Taylor has 30 photos to prove it. Pay phones, $3 beer, car battery-powered laptops, walking (instead of riding).
- Kerry Manders profiles The Most Famous Lesbian Photographer You've Never Heard of -- Until Now. That would be [Spoiler Alert] Donna Gottschalk, whose images document her biological family and the radical lesbian communities in the late '60s and '70s.
- Julieanne Kost has come up with Five Additional Tips for Accessing and Applying Blend Modes in Photoshop CC.
- We sympathize with Mike Johnston's jaded view of new camera announcements, nicely explained in New Nikon Mirrorless System Will Be Medium Format! No It Won't!. We see new camera speculation through the same cynical spectacles, but our reluctance to get very excited also stems from the unavailability of Raw processing for a new camera. We like Raw processing and until a camera is supported by our favorite engines, it really doesn't exist.
- We don't make predictions so we won't argue with Hillary Grionis, who suggests The Nixplay Iris Might Just Make Digital Picture Frames Cool Again. We have a lot of digital frames here from the Golden Age of Digital Frames and they are all off but with prints stuck in their frames like the mirror on a vanity. We do know one family that keeps in touch across state lines with a digital frame. So never say Never. But at $200, the Nixplay Iris sounds more like a Probably Not.
- In Special Places, Special Colors, Andrew Ling uses Adobe Color CC to extract the unique colors from the landscapes he's visited. "Iceland has its own set of greens that I've never seen anywhere else and Patagonia has its own blues," he explains. He details his color mapping process in seven steps.
- Heidi Volpe shares part one of her interview with Frank Ockenfels "about fatherhood, photography and raising boys, one of whom is a budding photographer."
- Adobe has announced that photographer Albert Watson will be among the keynoters at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Oct. 13-17.
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