Composition is one of the trickiest parts of photography no matter what genre you shoot, but it can be especially challenging in genres in which you have no control over the placement of the elements in the environment, such as landscape photography. This great video features an experienced landscape photographer discussing some of the difficulties of composition and showing how even minor adjustments can make or break an image.
Coming to you from Alister Benn of Expressive Photography, this awesome video discusses some of the challenges of composition in landscape photography and how small changes can make big differences. Composition is some that we all struggle with at one time or another, but if you are new to the genre, the important thing to notice is what a subtle art it is. Small adjustments are often the difference between an unbalanced photo and a harmonious frame, and they can often take a good shot to a truly compelling one. Once you have a shot generally framed up, take a few minutes to really think through all the details in the shot. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Benn.
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out our latest tutorial, “Photographing the World: Japan With Elia Locardi!”
“Brief Candle #9” (2023). All images © Pat Perry, courtesy of Hashimoto Contemporary, shared with permission
In Which World, Detroit-based artist Pat Perry (previously) conjures a sense of whiplash that characterizes modern life, particularly in middle America. “I was thinking mostly about scale, and about how all the grand, contemplative ideas in the world are peppered amongst the banality of daily life, like listening to Hannah Arendt or Richard Rhodes on audiobook while driving to Toledo to buy a matching sink and toilet off of Facebook Marketplace,” he shares. “Our experience of the world in this moment jerks us back and forth between the two poles.”
On view now at Hashimoto Contemporary, Perry’s solo exhibition peers into a range of mundane instances familiar to Midwesterners, all captured candidly and earnestly. Taking cues from home videos and Craigslist ads, the artist paints scenes cropped at strange angles—a young girl’s figure is cut off in “Brief Candle #5” —while other works hone in on the eeriness of everyday life. “Craigslist Still Life 14 (Garden of Togetherness),” for example, features two green squares pinpointing a pair of plots for sale in a cemetery. Many of the works consider how we find dignity and meaning when “far away from the hubs of power or influence,” a timeless question that feels especially pertinent in the Midwest.
While Perry’s subject matter reflects the ordinary, the paintings emphasize the empathy and understanding gained by reflecting on these seemingly common moments. The Brief Candle series is particularly important in this respect as it’s derived from YouTube videos documenting families launching bottle rockets and other fireworks near their homes. “That’s the kind of subject matter I love the most, always has been, probably always will be: the kind of thing that never seemed worth noting until you looked at it for a while longer and realized, maybe it was,” he says.
See Which World at Hashimoto Contemporary’s Los Angeles space through November 4. Perry recently completed several new murals and is preparing for an upcoming solo show next year, which you can follow on Instagram.
“Which World” (2023)
“Ameliorator” (2023)
“Recreating” (2023)
“Brief Candle #5” (2023)
“Craigslist Still Life 14 (Garden of Togetherness)” (2023)
“Craigslist Still Life 08” (2023)
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Bang & Olufsen’s Beolab 50 are significantly proportioned floor standing speakers impressively capable of revealing nuances and previously unperceived elements of songs you’ve listened to hundreds of times before. The more svelte and cylindrical, but architecturally sculptural Beogram 28 performs with similar abilities in smaller spaces, and is equipped with a dramatic curtain movement that adjusts the speaker’s beam output. Now combine those two iconic Beolab models, shrink it down to proportions similar to the Sonos Era 100, and you’ve got something resembling the new Bang & Olufsen Beolab 8, an elegantly crafted compact Bluetooth speaker set designed to operate solo or in stereo pairs.
It’s not immediately apparent upon glancing at the cropped and close-up images of the Beolab 8 speakers how remarkably small the new addition to the premium Beolab family are. Bang & Olufsen emphasize the Beolab’s size empowers its adaptable flexibility; they can be installed onto walls, set upon floors, secured onto ceilings, or enjoyed out of the box set upon any flat surface.
In many ways the Beolab 8 could be perceived as Sonos as interpreted by Bang & Olufsen, sharing a few attributes and features beyond its compact dimensions. This includes environmental sound mapping to tweak performance according to the dimensions and contents of the room the unit is placed within, alongside a simplified touch interface (though we suspect just like Sonos, users will opt to interact with their Beolab via mobile app).
Available with Bang & Olufsen’s signature wooden lamellas or with a fabric front wrapped around a halved pill aluminum body, the speaker resembles a Grecian urn filtered through a Danish modern eye.
Get beyond the Beolab 8’s striking good looks and you’ll come to appreciate the three-driver setup consisting of a 16mm tweeter, a 3” midrange, and a 5.25” woofer that sounds particularly impressive when performing in pairs.
Like its taller counterpart the Beolab 28, the Beolab 8’s audio beam width can be adjusted to provide an intimate narrow sound or stretched out wide to embrace an entire room (minus the cool open/close slat curtain effect).
The Danish audio brand continues their eco-minded efforts by engineering the Beolab 8 as an upgradeable and repairable modular platform. Both exterior parts and interior components are designed to be upgraded as desired or when newer technologies dictate.
What’s better than one Beolab 8? Two in stereo mode, of course. When paired in stereo mode, and set up using an Apple iPhone, Beolab 8 users can access an additional feature – Fluid Sweet Spot – activating motion tracking spatial audio that actively moves according to where the listener (and their iPhone) are within a room. The effect is akin to the Apple AirPods Max headphone’s spatial audio effect, sans the headphones themselves.
The Beolab 8’s one-piece aluminum body is crafted in Bang & Olufsen’s storied Factory 5 facility in Struer, Denmark, exhibiting the same degree of uncompromising fit and finish as its larger counterparts.
The Bang & Olufsen Beolab 8 is currently available for pre-orders, and will be available in-store starting from 30th October in Natural Aluminum, Gold Tone, Black Anthracite, or with a Grey Melange cover for $5,498.
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A Kentucky man wanted for human trafficking and various other crimes has been found by police.
Kentucky State Police reported 34-year-old Dustin E. Newsome was found Monday.
He was wanted on charges including human trafficking, organized crime and possession of child pornography.
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Who needs what we’re selling and why? Discover the answers to those two questions and it’ll shape your marketing strategy into something that has a direct and powerful impact on your bottom line.
Let’s take a closer look at how these customer insights can specifically impact the bottom line.
Unlocking actionable customer insights is why businesses in every sector are trying to get closer to their customers. But not all customer intelligence is useful. Knowing that your customer is 37, female and likes ice hockey might make them appear more human, but it isn’t going to help you sell software, or accountancy services, or manufacturing equipment — and especially not when B2B sales involve multiple decision makers across different teams, departments and with varying priorities.
Unless marketing personas deliver the customer insights you need to improve how you market your business — and this is where pain points are critical — then it’s impossible to differentiate your offering from the competition in a way that resonates with your customer.
Let’s look at how the top performers are doing when it comes to gathering customer intelligence.
Considered Content’s B2B Effectiveness Engine, which shows marketers how they compare to their top-performing peers, surveyed over 1,000 B2B marketers to learn more about their customers across nine different options — from general research into customer views and the brand’s products to gaining a better understanding of the purchase group and constructing a data-backed ideal customer profile (ICP).
What we see is that broad-based research is not only likely to propel you into the top-performing group, but it’s also going to make pretty much every tactic you use perform better.
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In tech, for example, those who research the broad views of their customers are over a fifth more likely to say their PPC advertising is delivering for lead gen and over a third more likely to rate their media advertising as highly effective for demand gen.
Those who have researched their ICP are over 20% more likely to be a leader in lead generation, over 20% more likely to lead in demand generation and over 25% more likely to be a leader in brand-building.
This is why getting this right matters. A lot.
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So, what actionable customer insights are these top performers collecting?
Once they know all this, buyer profiles can be produced. This is where the Jobs To Be Done framework is really useful — the theory that people don’t “buy products,” they hire them to help them make progress on a problem. In other words, people don’t buy because of who they are (so “adieu” personas), they buy because of what they need to get done. JTBD helps marketers identify why customers make purchases, what motivates them and, therefore, how to win their business.
Related Article: Using Customer Journey Maps and Jobs to Be Done for a Better Customer Experience
Like these top B2B marketing performers, you’ll need to get under the skin of who your customers are to learn what’s really driving their behavior. And beyond the jobs they need to get done, you need to know how customers buy, who’s involved in the purchase, what real-world pressures they’re under and their motivations for making a change (or resisting it).
The best way to gather meaningful customer insights? By undertaking and assessing customer interviews — past, present and almost — speaking to your sales team, and researching what’s driving change within your market.
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TULSA, Okla. — Indigenous designers from New York Fashion Week shared their work right here in Tulsa.
Spotlight the rising Native fashion artists at the Empowered Indigenous Fashion Show at the Osage Casino and Hotel, the show features five designers from different tribes.
Organizers hope to show a new view of who Indigenous people are — and what they look like.
Five designers were showcased and 65 models walked the runway. The designers were Weomepe Designs, Native Springflower Creations, Leslie A. Deer, Burning Wagon Designs, Hinglu. H “Wanoshi”.
To learn more about the artists behind the show, click here.
2 News spotted Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone in the audience supporting the Native artists.
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