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Around The Horn
7 June 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 low fill light, ignorance, the minimum Mac and DAM meets AI.
- Joe McNally taps into A Low Light, Up on the Great Wall to improve a portrait. "It can be as simple as a fill board, white, gold or silver," he writes. "A passive, additive light source for fill purposes. Or, it can be a fill board with a light blinked into it, thus transforming it into an active fill source, which is controllable via the amount of power you put into it."
- In How I Can Know So Little About Photography, Mike Johnston eschews the paragraph to enumerate his ignorance about all things photographic. It's a wise man who knows all the things he doesn't know.
- Thom Hogan evaluates the Changes in the Mac World after the recent product introductions. Still, the minimum Mac for photography is an M1/M2 processor, 16-GB RAM and a 512-GB SSD, he writes. We're nodding.
- In Revolutionizing Digital Asset Management: Embracing Advanced AI Editing Tools, Paul Melcher explores the future of DAM, focusing on its integration with artificial intelligence. "21st-century DAM do not and should not need to be self-limited to being for organizing, storing and distributing digital files efficiently but rather organizing the whole gamut of content management, including version editing," he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...