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5 Ways to Shoot Landscapes in Summer
Landscape photography in the summer can be frustrating, especially when shooting woodlands and forests. The forest is thick with green foliage, and parts of the bright blue sky shine through the canopy, creating hotspots in your image. But surely landscape photographers don't stow their cameras away for six months every year, so there must be an alternative?
The Quiet Friendship Between Two Photographers Who Never Needed to Meet in Public
There's a fairly common way to begin a piece about two photographers: describing when they met. This isn't that kind of story. Between Luigi Ghirri and Claude Nori, there's no iconic image shared together, no textbook foundational episode, not even the certainty that they ever needed to truly define their relationship.
See Your Focus Points in Camera Raw: The Setting Hiding in the Right-Click Menu
Photoshop's Camera Raw keeps getting features that Lightroom users have been waiting years for, and the gap between the two is worth watching. If you organize in one program and edit in another, the question of whether you should mix them has a clear answer.
The Photoshop Tool You Never Use That Creates Stunning Effects
The pixel stretch effect looks like something out of a high-end ad campaign, yet it comes down to a handful of clicks in Photoshop. If you've ever wanted to add motion, energy, or a graphic edge to a portrait or product shot, this technique gets you there in minutes.
Four Counterintuitive Photography Habits That Actually Work
Most photography advice tells you to learn more, shoot in manual, and chase the perfect trip. Doing the opposite of all three might improve your work faster than any tutorial ever could.
An Influencer Filmed a Stranger's Skirt for Clout. It Just Cost Him $20,000
A man with more than 100,000 Instagram followers who filmed himself lifting a stranger into the air outside a nightclub, exposing her underwear on camera, has been ordered to pay $20,000 for posting the footage without her consent. A B.C. tribunal decided the clips counted as intimate images even though the man said he was just chasing views.
Canon R5 C Long-Term Review: Did Canon’s ‘Cripple Hammer’ Ruin a Masterpiece?
A few years ago, when the shutter on my Canon 5D Mark II finally gave out after 12 years of use, I needed to upgrade my equipment. With so many mirrorless cameras available on the market, it was a difficult decision. However, one camera consistently stood out to me. No matter how many times I tried to convince myself that there might be a better option for my needs, something kept drawing me back to it.
NYC Will Force Companies to Make Canceling Subscriptions as Easy as Signing Up
Starting October 1, any company that lets New York City residents sign up for a subscription online will have to let them cancel it the same way. That covers streaming services, gym memberships, and the creative software many of you pay for every month.
10 Mistakes That Kill a Headshot
A headshot has one job: to make a person look like the best, most confident version of themselves, and to do it in the fraction of a second a viewer spends forming a first impression. That is a narrow target, and it is easy to miss. What helps is that these failures repeat. Most weak headshots are not ruined by the camera or the location but by the same handful of mistakes, almost all of them fixable once you know what to look for. Here are ten that quietly kill a headshot, each with the fix.
Fujifilm XF16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR I vs. II: Is It Worth Upgrading?
Fujifilm's original XF16-55mm f/2.8 lens has long been considered one of the best in the X-mount lineup, and is a lens I've owned and loved to use for many years. I know from personal experience that it's truly one of the best, whether discussing sharpness, detail, autofocus, build quality, or usability.
A Better Way to Charge Camera Batteries on Location: Photoolex BB Chargers
The Photoolex BB Series is a new modular camera battery charging system designed for professional photographers and videographers. Each model supports major battery types, including Sony NP-FZ100, Nikon EN-EL15c, Canon LP-E6P, and Fujifilm NP-W235.
Starting a Real Estate Photography Business in 2026
The single biggest mistake in real estate photography has nothing to do with your camera or your marketing budget. Getting good before getting busy separates a business that lasts from one that burns out fast.
Why I Put a Stealth Lens on the Loudest Camera I Own
Most likely, this won't matter to many people, but I'm writing it and proposing it anyway, also because I'm convinced that there's only one person who will be interested in this piece about an antiquated setup that, in my opinion, still works great today. At least it works for me.
The Split-Tone Trick That Beats a Single White Balance Slider
A single sunset photo, edited three different ways in the same frame, is the kind of thing that changes how you think about white balance. The trick lies in treating the sky and the water as separate zones instead of pushing one warm slider across the whole image.
A Good Thing in a Small Package: Viltrox 26mm f/2.8 EVO Review
Everybody loves a good pancake. A pancake lens, that is. Though some pancake lenses sacrifice quality for the sake of size, this new EVO lens begs to differ.
A 2010 Camera, a 2012 Lens, and a Trip to Italy
A 15-year-old camera with no USB-C charging, no eye sensor, and dated video specs still earns a spot in a working photographer's bag for a trip to the Italian coast. That says something about what actually keeps a camera in rotation years after its spec sheet stops mattering.
Tamron 12-20mm f/2.8: A New Fast Ultra Wide Angle Zoom for Sony E and Nikon Z Full Frame
Tamron has announced the 12-20mm f/2.8, a fast-aperture ultra-wide angle zoom for Sony E-mount and Nikon Z mount full frame mirrorless cameras. The Sony E-mount version goes on sale July 30 at $1,699, and the Nikon Z mount version follows on August 27 at $1,799.
'We Own More Cameras Than We Have Employees': Inside Capture One's Hasselblad Deal
The announcement itself was straightforward enough. On July 2, Hasselblad and Capture One confirmed that Hasselblad's .3FR raw files now open natively in Capture One, with dedicated color profiles for the X2D II 100C, the X2D 100C, and the CFV 100C digital back, and lens profiles covering 19 XCD lenses. Tethered capture is planned for later in 2026. After years of forum threads and feature requests, the wait ended with a software update.
They Didn't Show, So I Went Into the Bisti Badlands Alone at Night Anyway
Speeding down Highway 371, I received a call. The two photographers who knew the way around Bisti Badlands weren't going to show tonight. This was a problem. I had never been there, and it was basically Mother Nature's escape room.
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The Photograph Changes the Moment You Change the Moment
One of the arguments I hear most often against street photography has very little to do with photography itself.
Three Full Frame Cameras: One Trip, One Clear Winner
Picking one full frame camera for travel means weighing color, size, stabilization, and price against each other, and the differences rarely show up on a spec sheet. Three cameras in the same price range can feel like completely different tools once you actually carry them through a city all day.
Is the Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max the Ultimate Telephoto Flagship? Here is What We Know
For years, telephoto performance on smartphones has felt like a compromise, often forcing photographers to choose between reach and image quality. With the global launch of the Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max, Huawei is looking to shift that narrative and establish a new standard for mobile photography by bringing some of the latest imaging tech to the smartphone.
The Proof Even Legendary Photographers Miss Most of Their Shots
Impostor syndrome hits almost every creative person at some point, and if you shoot photos, you know the feeling: you look at work you admire and wonder why you even bother picking up a camera. Jesse Senko has a surprisingly practical answer to that spiral, and it comes from an unlikely source.
A $395 Lens Just Beat a $900 Nikon at Its Own Game
For years, Nikon's f/1.8 S-line lenses stood almost alone: premium optics at a maximum aperture where you rarely find premium anything. That comfortable spot is now under real pressure, and a head-to-head test shows exactly how much.