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Amateur PhotographerReviewsNeed more colour in your life? These are our favourite street, nature and portrait photographs featuring the whole rainbow The team shares their favourite colour-drenched photographs from the Celebrating Colour category of International Amateur Photographer of the Year

TechRadar CamerasTechPre-capture is the best wildlife photography trick you’re not using — here’s how I use the handy tool and which Canon, Nikon and Sony cameras support it Sometimes your reactions aren’t up to speed to capture the key moment, and it's gone before your finger has pressed the shutter button.

PhotoscalaGermanyLeica-Workshop: Nassplattenfotografie mit Luis Seybold Am 24. Oktober 2026 bietet Leica in Wetzlar einen Workshop zur Kollodium-Nassplattenfotografie mit Luis Seybold an.

The Guardian PhotographyCulturePortrait power: photojournalist Lorrie Graham’s five-decade career – in pictures Drawn from more than 100,000 images and negatives created between 1975 and 2025, the exhibition Lorrie Graham: Photojournalist is on now at the State Library of NSW.

The PhoblographerReviewsHow to Meditate While Doing Street Photography, Sort Of My name is Tom Souzer and I'm a self taught photographer from Pittsburgh PA .I've been shooting the streets of Pittsburgh for about 2 years now.

The Guardian PhotographyCulture‘It felt like an eternal moment of silent tranquillity’: Amit Lennon’s best phone picture On holiday in Greece the photographer came across two elderly people bathed in the beautiful evening light Amit Lennon describes his approach to portrait photography as “always respectful and…

Magnum PhotosCultureMemleket, Emin Özmen’s 15-Year Portrait of Turkey The upcoming photobook sees the photographer return to depictions of his homeland, this time to present the poetry of the everyday

ApertureCultureBehind the Scenes with the Architects of Aperture’s New Home Stella Betts and David Leven of the architecture practice LEVENBETTS share details of the new space—from embracing the building’s history to coining “Aperture Gray.”

SLR LoungeReviewsViltrox 90mm f/2.2 EVO Review | A Professional Portrait Lens Shouldn’t Be This Compact! A 90mm, crop-sensor (APSC) portrait prime is indeed a rare thing. Why? Because let’s be honest: there are already so many full-frame 85mm f/1.8 primes. Some good, some bad.

Capture OneSoftwareSelf Portraiture: the Lens of the Heart I’ve always had a strong sense of direction. That was the problem. What if after 7 long days trudging through the deep woods, you discovered the compass that had been guiding your every step was…

Réponses PhotoFranceConcours RP /Fujifilm - Un portrait, son histoire Il n'était pas question de vous laisser passer l'été sans un de nos traditionnels concours ! À l'occasion de notre dossier spécial Éric Bouvet, nous avons eu envie de prolonger l'expérience de sa…

ePHOTOzineReviewsNeurapix Launches Studio Crop AI Feature for Lightroom Portrait Editing Neurapix Studio Crop is a new AI feature for Lightroom that applies consistent, predefined crops to entire portrait batches automatically, eliminating manual cropping for photographers working with…

Digital Camera WorldReviewsI’m a pro photographer, but I took a 20-year-old 6MP compact camera on vacation. I have no regrets I grabbed a compact camera that's two decades old when packing for a camping trip, complete with a 6MP CCD sensor, a soft 4x zoom lens – and an emotional punch

Amateur PhotographerReviewsThink street photography is just New York and Paris? Well think again – this incredible collection from Africa will blow you away This volume of contemporary work from across Africa is a must-buy for any street photography fan, says Amy Davies

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographer Captured Crowds in the 1980s and 1990s Before Society Changed Forever A photographer’s fascinating images of crowds in the 1980s and 1990s offer a vivid look at a society in transition -- revealing the relationships, tensions, and shared experiences unfolding within…

Digital Camera WorldReviews"This image was a happy accident," says honored landscape photographer. "I saw the Neotropic Cormorant perched on the rock. It all clicked," and he captured the shot with a retro-style full-frame DSLR camera Exploring the coast around the fishing community of Talcaruca in Chile, this photographer captured an atmospheric image of a Neotropic Cormorant standing on a rock – now the shot received an…

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Photo District NewsCultureFrom Photographer to Content Creator: How to Add Video to Your Wedding Business Many photographers complain about content creators at weddings, but what if you could make content yourself and bring more value to your photography business instead?

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Photo District NewsCultureColor, Shape, Atmosphere: How to Build a Creative Portrait Look In this hands-on photo walk, Gilmar Smith will demonstrate how color, light quality, modifiers, shadow, and atmosphere work together to create distinctive images.

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Photo District NewsCultureFinding the Shot: How to Turn Any Location Into a Portfolio Image Join destination wedding photographer Staci Brucks for a hands-on photo walk focused on finding creative opportunities in any environment.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsAn English photographer bought a ravaged, wind-lashed Falklands island in 1972 to give it a second chance. Now, as Argentina and Britain argue over the archipelago once again, millions of seabirds continue to benefit from his remarkable vision New Island's remarkable recovery offers a counterpoint to the saber-rattling around it

Digital Camera WorldReviewsIf you’re buying a wildlife camera, don’t ignore the ergonomics A camera isn’t suitable for wildlife photography if it’s uncomfortable when using long lenses

FstoppersReviewsHow Do You Become a Commercial Photographer? (Sort of) Sometimes it feels like the photography industry is one magnificent, well-oiled grift. It will happily sell you a two-thousand-dollar lens, the romantic illusion of being an artist, and the sweet…

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographer Hides Behind Rock as Herd of 400 Wild Reindeer Comes Charging at Him A nature photographer filmed the extraordinary moment he had to hide behind a rock when a huge herd of 400 wild reindeer came charging toward him. [

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographer Accidentally Double-Exposes Wedding Photos With Pictures of Her Dog and Cat Anyone who's ever tried out film photography knows that it can be a minefield -- easy to get wrong or receive unexpected results. [

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo