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Around The Horn
19 April 2023
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 Peruvian ballet dancers, Hadi Mizban, Lightroom AI innovations, the Polished Portrait plug-in, a monochrome-only camera, Leica M11 Monochrom crops and the research-based photobook.
- Magda Gibelli tells the story in words and pictures of Ballet Dancers in Peru. "María del Carmen Silva, a retired professional dancer in Lima, Peru, teaches girls whose families cannot afford ballet classes and refuses to select her students by ability," she writes. That includes a passionate young dancer who sufferes from cerebral palsy. "Silva says her goal is to empower her young students through discipline and art and prepare them to overcome any obstacles they face in the future," Gibelli adds.
- Associated Press photographer Hadi Mizban spent 20 years covering the turmoil in Iraq and still finds Years of Carnage on the street. His images of present day Baghdad include a print of the earlier chaos aligned with the current scene, bringing the past and present together.
- In New Adobe Lightroom AI Innovations Empower Everyone to Edit Like a Pro, Rob Christensen covers yesterday's new Lightroom and Camera Raw releases while Eric Chan does a deep dive into Camera Raw's new denoising in Denoise Demystified.
- Kirk Tuck is intrigued by the Lightroom update, too. In addition to the denoising update, he thinks the new Polished Portrait plug-in is a great starting point.
- Are You Nuts? (Buying a Monochrome-Only Camera), Derrick Story wonders. Then he does a little research and finds five good reasons.
- In Leica M11 Monochrom: Unprecedented Capture Detail, Lloyd Chambers posts crops of images from Swiss photographer Jost von Allmen taken with the new camera and a $999 Voigtlander M APO-Lanthar 35mm f2 lens.
- Andrew Molitor is worried The Research-Based Photobook, in which he finds the research rather superficial, represents "a new way of knowing, a new epistemology (as the kids would say) that is built around seeing things in photographs."
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