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Around The Horn
14 March 2024
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 Elliott Erwitt, ászló Kupi, Ellen Jantzen, one strobe, the Leica X, using gels, color management, questions answered, circles of confusion and a lens sale.
- Love & Laughter shares a few of Elliott Erwitt's images on display at the Leica Gallery New York.
- Kate Mothes features László Kupi's Vibrant Portraits of Minerals. "His portraits span a veritably endless assortment of shapes, sizes, colors and combinations, capturing astonishing interactions between a wide variety of specimens," she writes.
- Suzanne Sease features Mid + West, the personal project of Ellen Jantzen. "Here I am blending photos from my years in the Midwest (Missouri and Illinois) with current photos I've taken while living in New Mexico," Jantzen explains. "We are reshaped by our circumstances. We become, in essence, a blending of all former homelands with the present."
- Joe McNally is Traveling Light now, which was not always possible in the past. But now even one small strobe can make the world of difference. "No matter how fancy the cameras get, there are still two basic elements of control," he writes. "F-stops and shutter speeds. When you add a third element, flash or, as some folks call it, artificial light, you gain great leverage over your scene."
- Chris Gampat has fond memories of Leica in the Golden Age of Compact Cameras. He remembers the X series, which led to the current Q series. "Talking about these cameras gets me very excited," he writes. "I really wish that good compact cameras made a return with APS-C sensors or full frame ones."
- Zach Sutton covers Using Gels and RGB Lighting in Your Photography with some nice examples, both the result and the setup.
- Jason Row takes a shot at explaining Why Color Management in Photography Is Important. "If you have ever received back prints that look wrong, be it dark and muddy, with a color cast or overexposed, you have drifted into the world of color management," he writes. BTW, Datacolor is hosting a free two-part webinar series with DxO Labs On Color Management Workflow on Mar. 26 and Apr. 16.
- In More Questions Asked, Thom Hogan tackles four more common queries with uncommon clarity.
- In Circles of Confusion, and Circles of the Confused, Jim Kasson calculates how to get the same depth of field on different sensor sizes. Which focal length to use and which f-stop.
- Lloyd Chambers is having a Lens Sale of Leica M, Canon, Olympus, Zeiss and other brands, as well as a Nikon D850.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...