Premiere Pro can now bleep out swear words on its own, and that's just the first of several tools buried in the software that most editors have never touched. If you've been cutting video for years, some of these will still catch you off guard.

Today, let’s get close. Like, really close, with the new Laowa Aksen Ultra Macro zooms.

A 135mm f/1.8 that retails for under $1,000 is not something you expect to perform like a premium lens. The 7Artisans 135mm f/1.8 for L-Mount does exactly that, and it changes the math for anyone who has wanted this focal length but balked at the cost.

Most landscape advice tells you to pack up when the sun climbs high and the shadows turn hard, yet some of the strongest work happens in exactly those conditions. Learning to read harsh light gives you far more hours to shoot and a look most people never chase.

Most people believe infrared photography only works under harsh midday sun in the middle of summer. A single shoot at an isolated hilltop church puts it to the test.

Sony has proposed buying Tamron outright. On July 30, Tamron confirmed it had received a non-binding proposal from Sony to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Sony Group, and it has formed a special committee to weigh the offer. Japanese outlet Diamond put the number at around 200 billion yen, roughly 1.2 billion dollars, which sounds enormous until you notice it is less than one percent of Sony's market capitalization. For Sony, this is couch-cushion money.

Travel photography is having an identity crisis. Not because cameras have become worse, not because destinations have become less interesting, and certainly not because photographers have stopped traveling. The problem is something else: too much travel photography today feels interchangeable.

I've studied the exotic and colonialist gaze in photography extensively. I began to develop an interest in it through some texts I read in the Mexican magazine Cuartoscuro, and then I delved deeper into it through a book a friend gave me. Other readings helped me develop an even more complete understanding, such as the National Geographic book on portraits, in which the agency itself acknowledged the colonialist gaze and the exploitation of the "naked bodies of African tribal women" to sell more copies of its magazine.

A cinema camera that records 6K internal raw for $2,200 sounds like an easy call against a rival that costs more than double. The Nikon ZR undercuts the Sony FX5 so aggressively that price alone seems to settle the argument, until storage enters the picture and the math shifts.

Your photography website works against you the second a client needs more than 30 seconds to figure out what you shoot. That's the standard many working professionals now assume, and most portfolios fail it.

People break ankles, wrists, and legs chasing a wheel of cheese down one of the steepest hills in England, and someone decided to shoot the whole thing on a camera from 1999. Cooper's Hill in Gloucester hosts this event every year, and it presents every problem a photographer dreads: no space, no time, and a crowd that keeps growing.

When it comes to content creation cameras, there has been no shortage of innovation over the years. Action cameras became more powerful, mirrorless cameras became smaller, and smartphones continued to close the gap. However, 2026 feels different. Every major manufacturer appears to be fighting for the same crown: producing the ultimate camera for content creators.

Elon Musk's AI company is asking a federal court to block a state law that bans tools for turning ordinary photos into fake nude images. The law is the first of its kind in the country, and it takes effect August 1.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck southern Japan on July 28, forcing evacuations at three of the biggest names in image sensor production. Sony has since confirmed that production remains stopped at its largest sensor plant while it checks the site for damage.

Second shooting is the most common on-ramp into professional wedding and event photography, and it runs almost entirely on trust. A lead photographer is handing you part of the most important day of a client's life, on their reputation, under their contract, for money the client paid them. Do it well and you get referrals, mentorship, repeat bookings, and a network that quietly vouches for you. Do it badly in the wrong way and something else happens: the lead does not just decline to rehire you, they warn every other photographer they know. Wedding photography markets are small and they talk. A reputation as a liability travels faster than a reputation as a talent.

The Olight ArkPro Ultra is a flat, pocketable everyday-carry flashlight that tries to do something most lights do not: put four different light sources in one slim body. Alongside the usual white flood and a longer-throwing white spot, it adds an ultraviolet output and a green laser. I have been carrying it as a daily light, and this review is about what that is actually like, not just what the box promises.

Every corner of Paris feels familiar before you've even arrived, due to being photographed from every angle by countless travellers, tourists and photographers over the years. But in 24 hours wandering through the 7th arrondissement area with the Ricoh GR IIIx in my pocket, I realised that this camera is one that lets you disappear into the city. Small enough to carry all day, yet capable enough to handle whatever was in front of me, the GR IIIx changed not just how I photographed Paris, but how I experienced it.

A few years ago, I got a friend request I didn't expect. It came from Efrem Raimondi. If you're not familiar with the name, you've almost certainly seen his work without knowing it. Raimondi was one of Italy's most respected portrait photographers, the man behind decades of images of Vasco Rossi, Italy's biggest rock star, as well as portraits of Monica Bellucci, Joe Strummer, Formula 1 driver-turned-handcyclist Alex Zanardi, Riccardo Muti, footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović, and even seven-time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. He shot for GQ, Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stone and worked with brands like Prada and Trussardi. He sat on the Hasselblad Master Jury. He was, by any measure, a master. So when Efrem Raimondi reached out to me, it stopped me in my tracks.

The visual is cultivated through visions. It may seem like an oxymoron, but we often tend to overlook the importance of nurturing our ability to see. The perception of experience also stems from our cultural background. And if it's missing, we often fail to understand how to photograph.

A comment on an old post accused me of photographing only women, and rather than let it sit, I want to take it apart, because the accusation says far more about how people look at images than about how I make them. What follows is less a defense than an explanation of what I am actually doing when I raise the camera, and why the subject is rarely the point.

One professional replaced nearly every prime lens in his kit with a single zoom, and after a couple of years, he'd buy it again the moment it broke. That kind of commitment to one piece of glass is rare, especially when the glass costs around $3,300.

A technically fine portrait sits on your screen. Nothing wrong with it, nothing exciting about it either, and that flat middle ground is exactly where most people stop editing.

A German appeals court has ruled that turning a copyrighted photograph into an AI-generated comic-style image does not automatically infringe the photographer's rights. The decision came out of a dispute over an underwater shot of a dog reaching for a red toy.

Apple has launched a leasing program that lets you pay monthly for a Mac, iPad, iPhone, or Apple Watch and return or swap the device when the term ends. The program is backed by Klarna, runs only in the United States for now, and replaces the decade-old iPhone Upgrade Program.

The way most photographers talk about sensor size gives the game away. There is a ladder in their heads. Phone at the bottom, then the little compacts, then Micro Four Thirds, then APS-C, then the promised land of full frame, and you climb it as you get more serious, upgrading rung by rung until you arrive. Buying a full frame body is treated as a graduation. You were an enthusiast on a crop sensor; now you are a real photographer.