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SLR LoungeReviewsEvent Photography Tips and Inspiration Event photography refers to the art of capturing images at events, such as weddings, parties, conferences, and so on.

September 19

SLR LoungeReviewsSmoke Photography Tips and Ideas for Incredible Images Photographing smoke can be difficult because of its unpredictable nature. However, the same characteristics that make smoke difficult to photograph also make it beautiful and unique.

September 18

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.

September 17

SLR LoungeReviewsWhen and How to Use Direct Flash The Right Way! Leave no doubt, direct flash is the easiest way to get some unflattering shots, but if you do it right, you can create really great edgy looks to your images.

September 16

SLR LoungeReviewsDxO PhotoLab 10 Review | Harnessing New AI Tools: Depth Masking, People Selection, & More! For all types of photographers, the cutting-edge tools that AI has brought to us have been a game-changer.

September 16

SLR LoungeReviewsPhotoCuller Review | What Is PhotoCuller? If you’re an Apple user looking for a seamless photo editing workflow that works across your Mac, iPad, and/or iPhone, pay attention!

September 16

SLR LoungeReviewsHow to Hold a Camera: 6 Techniques for Sharper Handheld Shots This may be a topic that seems basic and easy to gloss over, but have you ever thought about to properly hold your camera?

September 15

SLR LoungeReviewsHow to Ensure an Ideal Wedding Photography Timeline I had a potential client tell me that they needed only 3-4 hours of coverage, but they wanted me to be there from the getting ready to the sparkler exit.

September 15

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