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 … | Continue reading
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. [Read More] | Continue reading
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, … | Continue reading
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. [Read More] | Continue reading
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 o … | Continue reading
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, pro … | Continue reading
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. The opening comes from Flashback, the Australian company behind the ONE35 retro-styl … | Continue reading
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. [Read More] | Continue reading
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. They weren't the sh … | Continue reading
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 pri … | Continue reading
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 ch … | Continue reading
Not forcing the shot and being open to possibilities can make a big difference. As with any photography genre, the desire to create an impressive landscape photo can get in the way of achieving an authentic shot. Letting that pressure take over can sometimes get you results that … | Continue reading
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. [Read More] | Continue reading
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. [Read More] | Continue reading
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 turnov … | Continue reading
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. According to Skylum, today’s update is the first stage of a major red … | Continue reading
After years of creating landscape photography videos, tutorials, and behind-the-scenes content, I have learned one undeniable truth: reliable audio is just as important as the camera itself. In this review, I am putting both versions of the new DJI Mic Mini 2S through their paces … | Continue reading
Traditionally, shooting with an anamorphic lens has always come with its set of hurdles. While having the cinematic squeeze is nice, battling with the size and weight can be rather unpleasant. Not to mention the need for diopters just to reach a decent close-focus distance. And o … | Continue reading
Living in Southern Arizona means spectacular lightning is around at certain times of the year, especially during our monsoon season, which runs from around June 15 to September 30. We get some great storms, and I'm always thrilled to capture some of nature's fireworks. I've exper … | Continue reading
The new Pentax DSLR that fans have waited years for has reportedly moved past the drawing board and into production. A Japanese insider says the camera is being built now, though no launch date has been confirmed. [Read More] | Continue reading
Leica is famous for its fully manual rangefinder cameras that are based on technology first introduced in 1954. In recent years there’s been what appears to be a huge surge of interest, particularly from younger YouTubers and influencers, all using rangefinders and gushing about … | Continue reading
Your camera gets the glory, but your desk is where the hours actually go. Culling a 2,000-frame wedding, stacking a 40-shot Milky Way panorama, running AI masks across a folder of 61-megapixel raw files: none of that happens in the field. It happens on the machine under your moni … | Continue reading
A 55mm lens with an aperture ring solved a workflow problem on the Nikon Z f that had annoyed one wedding shooter for years. That single feature, plus a focal length that sits just past the standard 50mm, is worth a look. [Read More] | Continue reading
Sony's new FE 100-400mm arrives with an f/8 aperture on the long end, and that single number will push a lot of shooters to walk right past it. That aperture is also the reason the lens exists, because it lets Sony build a 400mm you can carry all day and handhold without a second … | Continue reading
Every day, in his comments and his inbox, Pye Jirsa gets some version of the same message. AI is for talentless cheats. Real photographers don't use it. You're helping drain the reservoirs. You're making billionaires rich while the rest of us scrape by. Instead of replying one co … | Continue reading
Your first prime lens, usually the classic 50mm f/1.8 "nifty fifty," is one of the best teaching tools in photography. It is small, sharp, inexpensive, and it forces good habits that a zoom never demands. But because it behaves so differently from the kit zoom most people start w … | Continue reading
Your first prime lens, usually the classic 50mm f/1.8 "nifty fifty," is one of the best teaching tools in photography. It is small, sharp, inexpensive, and it forces good habits that a zoom never demands. But because it behaves so differently from the kit zoom most people start w … | Continue reading
For up to two minutes and eighteen seconds on August 12, the sky along a narrow path running from the Arctic to northern Spain will go dark in the middle of the day. Birds may fall silent, the temperature will drop, and the sun's white corona will appear around the moon. It is th … | Continue reading
Researchers in Oregon have built a low-cost camera trap that uses AI to spot and identify wild bumblebees without netting or killing a single one. The system matched the species diversity that lethal traps and hand-netting turned up in the same field, at a fraction of the effort. … | Continue reading
Someone sawed down all eight of the automated license plate reader cameras that watch the roads in and out of Winona, Minnesota, and hauled the cameras away. Two more cameras on a nearby Mississippi River bridge were taken the same way. [Read More] | Continue reading
Sony has introduced the Sony FE 100-400mm f/5.6-8 OSS, a super-telephoto zoom for 35mm full frame Alpha E-mount cameras. The headline figure is weight: the lens covers the full 100-400mm range at approximately 654 g, which places it well below the size and mass of the professiona … | Continue reading
The Vision Prime 1 (VP-1) series full frame cine lenses were originally launched by Sirui back in February 2025, with the first batch of lenses covering all the mid-range focal lengths: the 24mm T1.4, 35mm T1.4, and 50mm T1.4. These releases not only offer great value options to … | Continue reading
Most Lightroom Classic users move the same sliders the same way every session, never touching the shortcuts hiding one keystroke away. Ten of them can cut real time off your workflow, and a few will surprise even people who have run this software for years. [Read More] | Continue reading
Canon's RF 24-105mm f/2.8 L IS USM Z carries a price near $3,000 and a body large enough to reshape what you pack. Deciding between this lens and the more familiar RF 24-70mm is one of the harder calls a Canon shooter faces right now. [Read More] | Continue reading
A constant f/1.8 mid-range zoom on an APS-C body gets you close to the look of a 24-70mm on full frame, with less weight and a smaller footprint. That kind of flexibility is exactly what keeps pulling shooters back. [Read More] | Continue reading
A monochrome-only camera that costs more than its color twin sounds like a hard sell, until you see what a dedicated black and white sensor actually does to an image. The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome strips out the color filter array entirely, and the results push well past what a conv … | Continue reading
Ask a couple to choose their favorite photographs from their wedding gallery, and they'll rarely start with the formal group shots. More often, they'll point to something unexpected. A grandparent wiping away a tear during the ceremony. A flower girl causing complete chaos during … | Continue reading
Most articles like this one will tell you about Portrait mode. You know about Portrait mode. Depending on which iPhone and AirPods you own, you may be able to default the camera to a 35mm-equivalent view, use your earbuds as a remote shutter, and change several settings that affe … | Continue reading
Pocket cameras have always asked you to accept a wide-angle-only view and hope your footage looks acceptable after the fact. A dual-lens setup with a detachable screen and optical zoom pushes against nearly every one of those limits at once. [Read More] | Continue reading
The advice that stuck with a photographer after 40 years behind the camera has nothing to do with gear or settings. It comes down to a simple rule about what you look at when you're not shooting. [Read More] | Continue reading
The Lumix S9 launched as one of the smallest full-frame mirrorless cameras you can buy, and then sat there without a lens small enough to prove the point. Now a metal pancake the size of a lens cap has arrived in L-mount, and it fills that gap. [Read More] | Continue reading
The Fujifilm X-H2 packs a 40-megapixel sensor, in-body stabilization, and a modular design that accepts a cooling fan and a broadcast-level file transfer grip, yet it sits in the shadow of the cheaper X-T5. That gap says a lot about who each camera is actually for. [Read More] | Continue reading
A used Sigma 10-20mm ultra wide for a Nikon DSLR is $97 right now. The nearest equivalent for a Sony APS-C body, the E 10-18mm f/4, is $433 on the same used shelf, and that single gap decides which system a beginner landscape kit should be built on. Here is the whole thing, camer … | Continue reading
Welcome to the August installment of the Critique the Community! This month's critique theme is going to be "Minimally Edited Photos," and we want to see your best photographs that have hardly been edited at all. Any raw file naturally has to be edited to some degree, so what c … | Continue reading
One of the joys of shooting with a Leica M is the incredible range of lenses available. The drawback for many of us, however, is that Leica’s own superb lenses are expensive. Once we’ve saved up for the camera, then we need to figure out what lens to buy. Leica lenses can cost mo … | Continue reading
A shallow depth of field ruins more portraits than a small aperture ever does. That claim runs against nearly everything you've been told about what makes a serious portrait setup, and it's worth sitting with before you spend money on another fast prime. [Read More] | Continue reading
Most photographers rank a macro lens near the bottom of their wish list, filed under a specialty they'll get around to someday. That instinct sells short a piece of glass that can carry travel work, portraits, and landscapes all at once. [Read More] | Continue reading
The biggest weakness of Sony's newest high-resolution camera turns out to be everything you expected of it before you ever picked it up. Expectations, not hardware, set the trap, and understanding that shift changes how you shoot with a resolution-first body in a market crowded w … | Continue reading