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Around The Horn
8 February 2022
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 Jordan, New York, combining video frames, iPhone Live Photo changes, black-and-white photographers and technical camera techniques.
- In A Photographer's View of Jordan's Many Splendors (gift link), Daniel Rodrigues goes to Jordan with his girlfriend to see the ancient city of Petra. "Jordan had offered us a perfect opportunity -- after years of stasis -- to discover a new place with a rich history and culture," he writes. "I also felt real pleasure in photographing again: the people, the colors, the aromas, the landscapes. All of it had inspired my creativity."
- In Abstract New York, Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin challenge you to identify familiar New York City sights depicted in a few closeup photographs.
- Julieanne Kost explores Combining Video Frames to Create Still Images using Smart Objects in combination with Stack modes. She builds one image and shows two other samples of the technique.
- Dave Williams explains the iPhone Live Photo Changes in iOS 15.
- Jasenka Grujin lists Seven Black and White Photographers to Follow on Instagram. "We included various genres and styles of photography, so you can surely find something that suits your taste," she writes.
- Dave Chew begins a series on Field Techniques for Technical Cameras with the first of many parts that originated as "a rather lengthy PDF." What is a technical camera? "Technical cameras fit a curious niche between the two extremes of do-it-all convenience of modern mirrorless vs. the slow, manual approach of a traditional view camera," he writes.
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