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Around The Horn
3 April 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 Taiwan, World Press Photo winners, Asom Khan, Layer bounds previews, equivalent aperture, fast apertures and Mosaic.
- The Guardian curates images from the agencies of the Taiwan 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake. The temblor killed seven and injured hundreds, causing building collapses, power outages and landslides on the island. NPR shows The Aftermath of the Taiwan Earthquake as well.
- The regional winners of the World Press Photo awards have been announced. There are 24 winning projects and six honorable mentions plus two special mentions in this year's annual competition.
- In How a Mute Rohingya Boy Talks to the World, Kaamil Ahmed profiles 15-year-old Asom Khan, a deaf mute who photographs the Rohingya refugee camps of south-east Bangladesh. ""I can't speak but my photos do. I take pictures of the elderly -- how they spend their days -- and of how we suffer in our daily lives here," says Khan.
- Julieanne Kost shows how to Preview Layer Bounds in Photoshop beta in this 4:10 video:
- In f1.7 Is f1.7 (Don't Be a Looser), Mike Johnston takes on the subject of depth of field, arguing against the notion of equivalent aperture as "a way of showing off a claimant's ownership of expensive equipment." With links to two of his own prior explanations and two of Ctein's.
- And in Clearing Up Aperture Confusion, Thom Hogan takes on a different problem: the difference between f1.2, 1.4 and f1.8 lenses. "These don't at first seem to be big differences, but each step is a half or two-thirds of a stop, which can make a significant difference in exposure in lower light conditions and has a fairly clear depth of field difference at the 35mm+ focal lengths," he writes. And for dessert, he explains More About VR than you probably want to know.
- In Mosaic Offers Creators IMDB-Style 'Proof of Work', Kehl Bayern takes a look at the new platform instituted by the Creators Guild of America that bills itself as the "IMDB for everyoneBilling itself the "IMDB for everyone"". Founder Joshua Hoy says, "We've never had a database of verified, singular projects, available publicly to view, acknowledge and connect with but soon we will."
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