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Around The Horn
9 November 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 the U.K. Landscape Photographer of the Year, Rob Gregory, Harold Davis, Lightroom, painting a studio, digitizing film, Andrew Molitor and a new magazine.
- Jessica Stewart presents the winners of the U.K. Landscape Photographer of the Year contest. Mik Dogherty was the overall winner for his haunting photo, After the Fire, which was taken in the New Forest National Park. "All of the winners will see their work included in the Landscape Photographer of the Year book, as well as a traveling exhibition that makes its way across the country," she writes.
- Suzanne Sease features the Bright Images With Lots of Color conceived by Rob Gregory. "I used LED lighting with full RGB capabilities to create unique color combinations that complimented the wardrobe choices. In recent years, I've found myself shooting with continuous lights more often than strobes because I love the versatility they provide," he says.
- Harold Davis made seven exposures to capture Bamboo Woods Near Kyot. "It is fair to say that the range of light and darks was greater than the human eye could encompass in a single glance; hence, the scene before me 'looked' nothing like the final image," he writes.
- Derrick Story explains How Lightroom Desktop Saved the Day when Capture One required a $200 payment for a dot release to read his Nikon Zf Raw files. "One of the really good things about Adobe is that they are on top of RAW file updates," he writes. Adobe's free DNG Converter is another excellent solution which likely would have let him continue working in Capture One but with DNG files.
- In Painting Complete, Kirk Tuck shows what his studio (and a few rooms in his house) looked like during a recent paint job. "The painters covered every piece of gear and furniture with plastic," he writes. "If I had done the job I would have convinced myself that I would never drip paint. And then I'd have spent a few days trying to clean up the mess followed by months of rationalizing how artistic it is to have white speckles applied randomly around the room."
- Zack Sutton list two Tools for Digitizing Your Film Photography. He compares the venerable Epson V850 flatbed scanner to the Nikon ES-2 Digitizer mounted on a Nikon 60mm f2.8 ED AF-S Micro.
- Andrew Molitor compares Vandalism and Local Art. Or, you might say, art that lives in a museum and art "that lands inside my life, my existence, not outside it in some temple to culture."
- Dan Havlik reports, "Out of the ashes of one of the most beloved outdoor photography magazines ...Wild Eye is coming!"
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