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Around The Horn
19 August 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 World Photography Day, Tom Wood, Alvin Baltrop, Juan Jose Egusquiza, Ming Thein, illustration and photography, Mexican sodas, Joe McNally and metering modes explained.
- It's World Photography Day. The National Parks Service is celebrating with two photo contests: Share the Experience and Wonder + Wander while the National Inventors Hall of Fame celebrates George Eastman, Edwin Herbert Land and Steve Sasson.
- Mothers, Daughters, Sisters is a series by Tom Wood shot in Liverpool between 1970 and 2000.
- In Alvin Baltrop: Remembering New York's Forgotten Queer Photographer, Nadja Sayev reviews the life of the Bronx photographer on the occasion of a new exhibit of his work.
- In Reality-Defying Photo Composites Master the Impossible, Jornn Kishins interviews Brooklyn photographer Juan Jose Egusquiza about his "brain-bending composites that challenge the way we relate to and interpret our surroundings."
- In Over Water, From Above is a Ming Thein showcases a site of images taken from the sky. "All of these have one thing in common: none of them were deliberate captures, as in I didn't make a dedicated trip just to shoot for this project or make this kind of image," he writes.
- In Made Here: When Illustration and Photography Collide, the Adobe Blog team shows what happened when the company paired creatives from "the disparate worlds of photography and illustration."
- Strobist David Hobby lights up a few Mexican Sodas "using three speedlights, a small piece of white acrylic as a table top, some foam core and some printer paper." It's a refreshing piece for another reason, though.
- Joe McNally explores Shades of Difference and Direction. He uses "a simple swatch of white material" to tame the blazing sun falling on Rae Stoetzel. Then he adds a little bounced fill to get "dead bang gorgeous, wraparound light."
- Jason Little provides A Basic Introduction to Understanding Metering Modes with usage tips.
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