Skin retouching tools usually give themselves away by making faces look plastic. The new blemish removal tool inside Camera Raw takes a lighter hand, and that restraint is exactly what makes it worth learning.

Overpacking your camera bag feels like preparation, but it often turns an incredible trip into an exhausting one. Getting the balance right between what you carry and what you leave home changes how much of the trip you actually experience.

The tree at Sycamore Gap is gone, and so is any chance of photographing it. That kind of loss sits at the center of a hard truth every photographer eventually learns: the scene in front of you might never be there again.

There is a particular kind of pride that keeps photographers doing everything alone. You built the business, you know how you like things done, and handing a piece of it to someone else feels like admitting you cannot handle it. So you shoot the job, cull the job, edit the job, print the job, bill the job, file the taxes on the job, and fix the computer the job lives on, and you wonder why you have no time to shoot the next one.

Most of the conversations about AI in photography seem to stem from anxiety. The focus is on commercial jobs being replaced, fake images flooding our feeds, or a sense that what makes the craft feel real is eroding. It is a repetitive drumbeat and makes some sense. When a new technology moves this fast, the default reaction is to brace for impact and defend the boundary lines of our art. But if you look past the noise, there is a very different side to this tool that rarely gets talked about.

Sony E-mount shooters have waited a long time for an affordable way to reach 400mm, and now there's a lens built specifically for that job. The catch sits right in the name: a maximum aperture of f/5.6 that darkens to f/8 as you zoom in.

Modern cameras shoot at 30 frames per second, focus faster than your eye can follow, and stabilize by five or six stops, and all of that speed may be quietly ruining your pictures. The fix has nothing to do with buying more gear and everything to do with pace.

Only three companies make an 85mm f/1.2 lens for mirrorless right now, and the price gap between one of them and its slower sibling runs about $2,000. That number alone forces a question every portrait shooter eventually faces: how much aperture is worth paying for?

Camera makers shipped 4.36 million digital cameras worldwide during the first six months of 2026, barely changed from the 4.34 million units shipped over the same period in 2025. The headline may look flat, but the underlying market is changing: manufacturers are increasingly leaning on higher-value products, compact cameras continue to expand, and DSLRs are fading further from the mainstream.

Red carpet photography looks straightforward from the outside, but the access, gear, and etiquette behind a single clean frame are anything but obvious. After nearly two decades away from the assignment, I returned to the carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival and relearned what it takes to shoot one well.

If you use MacOS with multiple monitors, this app is going to change your life. And I'm going to give it to you for free. 

Zoner Studio has released its Summer 2026 update, bringing a substantial suite of multi-frame stacking tools, an overhauled global search panel, and content-aware retouching tools to the Windows-based editing platform. Rather than focusing exclusively on generative AI novelties, this biannual release targets everyday workflow efficiency, with a focus on simplifying the processing of multi-shot stacks.

The right laptop edits a wedding on a hotel bed as happily as it does at your desk; the wrong one turns every export into a fan-screaming, battery-draining compromise. Here's how to tell them apart in 2026, and which machines are actually worth carrying.

Scientists just released the highest-resolution images of the Sun's visible surface ever captured, taken in violet light at 416 nanometers. The pictures resolve features as small as 19 kilometers across and reveal tiny, swirling, whirlpool-like patterns nobody had directly seen on the Sun before.

Fujifilm just posted record imaging revenue, yet the same financial report shows the company spending more to design and build its cameras while the cost of key parts keeps climbing. The imaging segment brought in ¥627.1 billion, up 15.7% year over year, even as memory chips, processors, and silver got more expensive.

A camera company is offering to pay one person to move to Hong Kong and photograph the city for up to six months. The gig comes with a stipend and covers the cost of living there while you shoot.

Anthropic has verified that it is assembling an internal team tasked with creating bespoke chips for its Claude AI models. This marks the first occasion the company has openly recognized a hardware initiative that had circulated as rumor since the spring.

I found myself looking through some old photographs Neil had taken of me years and years ago. For context, Neil and I are married and photograph weddings together all around Norfolk (UK). As I clicked through the gallery, I kept coming back to the same images.

As a landscape photographer, I, like many others in this genre, take hundreds, if not thousands, of images every year. Some I like and others I love, but most of them stay on hard drives instead of being presented as prints, as they should be. However, what if we committed to printing more?

Blurry photos almost always come down to one of three things: the camera moved, the subject moved, or the lens focused on the wrong place. That is genuinely most of it. Once you can recognize which of the three is ruining a shot, the fix is usually fast and specific. This is a checklist you can run through before and after you press the shutter to catch each of those causes before it costs you the picture.

Not forcing the shot and being open to possibilities can make a big difference.

Portraits that fall flat usually trace back to a handful of choices made before and during the shoot, not to some missing gear or secret edit. Focal length, color, light, and how your subject moves all pull weight, and small shifts in each one add up fast.

Mushy, halo-ringed edges around trees and horizons have plagued Lightroom masks for years, and Adobe just added two sliders that clean them up. The fix works whether you use Lightroom Classic or the newer Lightroom.

AI-generated images, video, audio, and certain text now have to be labeled in the European Union, and the rules reach any content shown to people inside the bloc no matter where you are based. Break them and the fines can climb to 15 million euros or 3 percent of worldwide turnover.

Luminar Neo users will see an update to their app today. It’s version 1.28.0. Skylum is also moving toward a new name for the app, which is actually the original name. Neo will be dropped, leaving just Luminar.