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Around The Horn
24 July 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 Cortona's Photo Festival, William Keo, editing, mixing and matching formats and selectable focus sensor areas.
- Jim Casper reviews Cortona's 13th International Photo Festival. The 13th edition features 26 exhibitions throughout the town. "Most of the work celebrates varied, strong documentary approaches, highlighting important social issues while educating, entertaining and surprising viewers with remarkable storytelling," he writes.
- Beautiful Paradox looks at French-Cambodian photographer William Keo's images of the outskirts of Paris. "For me, it's not a place full of violence and poverty as is usually shown; there is beauty, boredom and magical moments," he says.
- Mike Johnston shares A Few Remarks on Editing. "If I continue looking at variants of a picture for a few days, what usually happens is that my mind sorts it out," he writes. "I'll start liking one better and the other one less."
- Kirk Tuck experiments with Cross Format Compatibility with a Tech-Art Nikon F to GFX lens adapter and a Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f1.4. There's vignetting but it doesn't bother him. "A slight crop into the frame will fix that right up," he writes.
- Thom Hogan asks, How Many Points Are Best? He's referring to phase detection "selectable focus sensor areas." Places in the frame you can designate as the focus point. But how many are optimal? "Numbers, of course, are easier to use in marketing than trying to describe a real benefit," he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...