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Around The Horn
9 July 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 Peter Turnley, Hellen Van Meene, oe Pugliese, PhotoBooth 60 PBS, changing colors, sunrises, a lens aberration solution, Fracture's new image editor, Daido Moriyama and the Cameradactyl Homonculus 69.
- Peter Turnley photographed A Woman Without a Country. "When I woke up this morning, I said to myself, I hope to come across a miracle. Thank you for speaking to me," she tells him.
- In The Bird in Borrowed Feathers, Marigold Warner reviews a new exhibit opening in London by Hellen Van Meene. "Often working with young women, Van Meene uses natural light in ornate locations to illuminate the magic of the transformative stage between adolescence and adulthood," she writes.
- Joe Pugliese tells Heidi Volpe, "This assignment really combined everything I love about shooting for editorial clients." Didn't hurt that the client was Priest+Grace for 8x8 magazine and the models were all members of the U.S. women's soccer team that's been making waves lately.
- PhotoBooth 60 PBS is the Emmy Award-winning commercial by Errol Morris for PBS that will amuse photographers and opera lovers:
- Julieanne Kost continues her 3, 2, 1, Photoshop series with Three Ways to Change Colors in Photoshop(you know you want to):
- In Mountain Versus Sun, Dave Williams extols the virtues of shooting sunrises over sunsets. "That time of day is calm, relaxed, the rest of the world hasn't woken up yet, there's no traffic to get where you're going, when you get there you can always find a place to park, the light is amazing, it's just all-round better!" he enthuses. Not a bad shot of sunrise in Mostar, Bosnia, either.
- In Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem, Eduardo Machuca explains how Rafael G. González-Acuña eliminates spherical aberration in a lens with a second aspherical surface (that's the old double whammy for those not included to plow through General Formula for Bi-Aspheric Singlet Lens Design Free of Spherical Aberration).
- Fracture, the online print service that prints on glass, explains How to Use Our New Photo Editor (warning: cat photo):
- Daido Moriyama's Street Photography Advice Sounds Sexy (And It Works) is an excerpt from Moriyama's new book, Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs co-authored by Takeshi Nakamoto.
- The $120 Cameradactyl Homonculus 69 provides an ambidextrous platform for your antique Graflex lenses or Mamiya Press lenses and Mamiya RB67 film backs. In your choice of colorful grip and inner lens mount ring plus outer lens mount ring and back mounting slides. With five cold shoes for accessories like viewfinders, meters, flashes and rangefinders.
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