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Around The Horn
14 March 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 Bruce Polin, a diffuser, Exposure X4.5, amateurs, digital literacy and two Supreme Court decisions.
- John Leland asks, What's the Opposite of a Cellphone Photo? Bruce Polin knows. He packs 100 lbs. of gear around a public park to take 8x10 film portraits of the strangers he meets.
- Derrick Story demonstrates The Beauty of a Diffuser for Midday Closeup Photography. And he just happens to be in Joshua Tree National Park.
- Jimmy Beech highlights the New Enhancements Coming in Exposure X4.5, a free upgrade to owners of v4:
- Jim Kasson asks, Are Amateurs Unserious About Image-Making?. Or, as he puts it at the end of the piece, "Are the 'net denizens as a group more interested in playing with shiny toys than in making images? I guess it's possible, but I find the thought depressing."
- Alex Gray considers How Digital Literacy Affects the Modern Workforce, listing both the top five soft and hard skills as well as the attributes of the digitally literate identified by the International Society for Technology in Education. "As the workforce is becoming more and more digitized, graduates entering the workforce need to have more than just the hard skills required for their desired profession," he writes.
- In Supreme Court Ruling on Two Copyright Issues, Greenberg & Reznicki note, "As we have written, lectured, screamed and cajoled for decades, the bottom line coming from both cases is that copyright owners should register their work early and all of the time, always, no exceptions." They also report that at least two justices were not entirely familiar with copyright law.
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