#portraits

High-Speed Sync vs. Global Shutter for Flash Portraits in Bright Sun

Shoot a flash portrait at f/1.2 in midday sun and you run into a wall fast: most cameras stop syncing with a flash somewhere around 1/160 to 1/250 s, and anything faster leaves dark bands across the frame. Sony's a9 III and its global shutter offer a way past that wall, which puts high-speed sync, the usual workaround, in an interesting spot. [ Read More ]

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Collins Obijiaku’s Tender Portraits Conjure Memories and Community

'Wherever You Are, Remember Me' opens on November 7 at Roberts Projects in Los Angeles. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Collins Obijiaku’s Tender Portraits Conjure Memories and Community appeared first on Colossal .

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In 2013, Researchers Pulled Recognizable Faces of Bystanders Out of the Eye Reflections in a Portrait

An anonymous peer reviewer worked through a manuscript, looked at one of its figures, and recognized one of the authors. The face was a reflection in another person's eye. Across the study's bystanders, those extracted faces ran 27 to 36 pixels wide and covered roughly 322 pixels apiece, and that accidental recognition became the paper's second experiment. [ Read More ]

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