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National Geographic Belgesel Dizisinde Yedi Fotoğrafçı Yer Alıyor

National Geographic Belgesel Dizisinde Yedi Fotoğrafçı Yer Alıyor National Geographic , Akademi ve Emmy ödüllü film yapımcıları E. Chai Vasarhelyi ve Jimmy Chin tarafından hazırlanan yeni belgesel serisi Photographer'da yer alan yedi ikonik fotoğrafçıyı açıkladı.

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Lady of Light by Anand Varma

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Behind the Edit: Macro Assignment

Photographer Anand Varma had the difficult job of editing almost 16,000 photos down to 17 for the final story in the Macro assignment. Below, he tells us why these three unique photos were left on the cutting room floor.

Photograph by Marianna Armata

I had just learned about frozen bubbles from an earlier image submitted to the Macro assignment, so I was very impressed that Marianna was able to capture this process in action. It's so cool to see how the ice crystals creep up the sides of the bubble. But while the ice forming on the bubble is fascinating and beautiful, I found that the rest of the image didn't have enough going on visually to compete with the other images in the final story. Had this been the only ice bubble image submitted, it certainly would have made the cut.  

Photograph by Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

I was immediately intrigued by the oddly opaque droplets shown in this image. At first I had a hard time believing they were just water droplets, but then I thought back to the many hours I've spent trying to photograph water and I recognized and appreciated Yacine’s clever lighting approach. While it is a beautifully abstract and eerie image, it didn’t teach me anything new about the world, so I decided to leave it out of the final selection.  

Photograph by Bernardo Cesare

This is one of several images in this assignment that have motivated me to learn about polarized light photography. While it is certainly an elegant image, there's a tradeoff when using microscopes for photography: I find that when a subject is so small that I can’t tell what I’m looking at, the image is much less likely to stick with me. I have a harder time relating to the subject material, so the image must work harder to be memorable. In this case, the radial structure of the crystal was perhaps too simple to hold my attention in the same way that other images in the final selection did.  

  See the final photos and read more from Anand in the Macro story.