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Around The Horn
29 May 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 Lake Baikal, Fred Baldwin, still lifes, street photography, Google's super-resolution tech, Martian clouds, #PhonicFilters, ExifTool and BorrowLenses.
- Alan Taylor presents 33 photos of The Incredible Ice Formations of Lake Baikal. The "ferocious winds and cycles of melting and refreezing build and sculpt works of structural beauty," he writes.
- James Estrin reports At 90, Photographer Fred Baldwin Still Has 'So Much Work Left to Do' after just publishing a memoir about photographing Picasso. "Have a dream, use your imagination, overcome your fear and then the real secret to the whole thing: You have to act," Baldwin says.
- Laura Staugaitis presents Elegant Still Lifes of Luscious Fruits and Perfectly Ripe Vegetables Trapped Inside Plastic Packaging from Spanish studio Quatre Caps. Boxed wine sadly didn't make the cut.
- 1838-2019: Street Photography presents an image for each year (which is why it takes 20 minutes):
- In This Is How Google's Phone Enhances Your Photos, John Nack reports "Google's super-resolution tech" used in Google Photos has migrated to the Pixel phone camera:
- In Curiosity Gazes Upon Noctilucent Clouds Over Gale Crater, Emily Lakdawalla sets the scene, "The sun has just set and the temperature is falling rapidly. You look up. You see brilliant, wispy clouds, still sunlit even though night has fallen where you're standing."
- #PhonicFilters from Adobe "promises to make searching image libraries as easy as talking into your mic," according to Brett Butterfield, director of software development for Sensei agents at Adobe. Brett previewed the technology (which smacks of using Siri to search Apple Photos) with a Sneak Peek:
- Phil Harvey has issued an unusual update to ExifTool, his platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. He notes:
CORRUPTION WARNING: Patched problem where Canon DPP would destroy a CR3 image if the image had previously been edited by DPP then Exiftool.
(If you have edited any CR3 images with ExifTool that had been previously edited by DPP, then re-edit with ExifTool 11.45 or later to restructure the file so DPP doesn't destroy it if used to edit the file later)
- BorrowLenses is offering Same Day Delivery with a three-hour delivery window in the San Francisco Bay area. You can try it for free ($45 regularly) this week on rentals of $100 or more.
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