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Around The Horn
18 November 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 An Rong Xu, Hiroshi Watanabe, Luminar 4, format size, a Photoshop tip, Avi Adelman and reputable lawyers.
- In Portrait of Humanity: My Americans, Sarah Roberts talks to An Rong Xu, who has been documenting Chinese-Americans for nearly seven years. Most of the series was shot in New York City but Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Jerome, Idaho, also make appearances.
- Stephanie Wade demonstrates how Hiroshi Watanabe Pairs Japanese Horror Stories and Photography, the black-and-white images appear in his new print publication, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
- In Luminar 4 Review -- The Focus Is on AI, Derrick Story evaluates the performance of the new version on his 2014 MacBook Pro, which he finds "reasonable." But that's good enough to go over the new features. "The Skylum team seems to be placing all their bets on the AI technology for image adjustment and hoping the existing library doesn't get in the way," he observes.
- Jim Kasson explores how Image Quality Effects of Format Size in two articles (Example 1 and Example 2. The Fujifilm GFX 100 clearly outperforms the Sony A7R IV, Sigma sd Quattro and Sony a6000 in both cases.
- Scott Kelby demonstrates A Killer Little-Known Photoshop Tip. It's a blending mode called Paint Behind, available only for the Paint Brush tool:
- Kehl Bayern reports Photographer Wins Huge Settlement Following Unlawful Arrest in Dallas. "Avi Adelman recently won a settlement from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system, also known as DART, after he was arrested for photographing paramedics trying to rescue a person having a drug overdose," he writes. How big is "huge?" you ask. $345,000.
- In The Liebowitz Chronicles -- An Update, Greenberge & Reznicki admit, "It is impossible for us to effectively cover the seemingly endless saga of attorney Richard Liebowitz." Which raises the question of how you find a reputable lawyer.
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