Photo Corners headlinesarchivemikepasini.com
A S C R A P B O O K O F S O L U T I O N S F O R T H E P H O T O G R A P H E R
Enhancing the enjoyment of taking pictures with news that matters, features that entertain and images that delight. Published frequently.
Around The Horn
7 January 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 William Coupon, Ingacio Marin, transgender troops, event photography tips, Photoshop for Lightroom users, the Fujifilm X-H1, scrubby sliders and CES 2019.
- In Portraits of the Regulars, at a Place Where Everyone Knows Your Nickname, Mark Bussell begins with the story of how he got his stolen stereo and family photos back before finding William Coupon's chiaroscuro portraits of the patrons of the Italian-owned restaurant Cafe'tal Social Club.
- David Walker profiles Spanish photographer Ingacio Marin, who began documenting Venezuela: Hunger Crimes last spring in Caracas.
- The Faces Behind Transgender Troops' Struggle for Acceptance features Jeff Sheng's portraits of five openly transgender members of the U.S. military. All but one of them told Smithsonian they had full support from their superiors and other members of their units during their transitions.
- Robin Wong offers some Event Photography Tips which we found right on the money. We covered enough events with our Nikon FM 2 in the film era to know the challenge of shooting speaker after inanimate speaker. The trick is, as Wong writes, to "target dramatic moments with hand gestures and facial expressions."
- In his new book Photoshop for Lightroom Users, Scott Kelby tackles the void between those two worlds, which confuses a great many people. Here's his pitch for the new book:
- Kirk Tuck too 1,500 images with his Fujifilm X-H1 and 60mm f2.4 Macro Lens. So he has an opinion about it. "Nice, fast rig with the ability to nail focus in light low enough to call for 1/60th of second, f2.4, at ISO 3200. The files (Raw) looked great and were very malleable in Lightroom," he writes.
- Julieanne Kost reveals one of our favorite little user interface tricks in Scrubby Sliders in Photoshop CC.
- Derrick Story hits the trenches in CES 2019 Unveiled -- Security, Health & Home Automation. Not much there for photographers again, it would seem. Which is why we don't miss covering the uncoverable event.
More to come! Meanwhile, please support our efforts...