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The 5 Mistakes That Make Sharp Landscape Photos Feel Empty

Thu 15 Jan 2026 4:04pm

A wide angle lens can make a scene look huge, but it can also turn your frame into a pile of “everything” that says nothing. If your landscapes feel sharp yet forgettable, this video focuses on five small habits that quietly wreck otherwise good work.

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Is Medium Format Right for You?

Thu 15 Jan 2026 3:04pm

Medium format keeps pulling you back when prints start getting big and your files need to hold together under picky edits, and that is the exact lane where the Hasselblad X2D 100C starts to look less like a luxury and more like a tool with a point. If you have ever looked at a finished print and felt the color and shadow transitions were just slightly brittle, this video is aimed straight at that frustration.

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Peakto Introduces Powerful AI-Driven Culling Across All Your Photo Libraries

Thu 15 Jan 2026 2:04pm

CYME has just announced Peakto 2.6, the latest version of its AI-powered media manager for Mac, introducing what is now the most comprehensive AI-driven culling and deduplication tool available for photographers and visual creators.

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A Look at the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome and The Red Filter Change That Quietly Alters Everything

Thu 15 Jan 2026 1:04pm

The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome targets a specific kind of photographer: someone who wants black-and-white files that hold up when the light is bad and the pace is fast. If you rely on a pocket camera and you care about tones more than color, this is the sort of release that can change what you bring out the door.

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Landscape Masking in Lightroom Classic: What It Gets Right and Wrong

Thu 15 Jan 2026 10:04am

Lightroom Classic landscape masking can save you from tedious brush work, but it can also make confident mistakes that you have to catch fast. If you edit outdoor scenes, it changes how quickly you can isolate problem areas like sky bleed, muddy snow, or uneven water tones.

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Apple Just Dropped a $13/Month Bomb on Adobe's $70 Subscription Empire

Wed 14 Jan 2026 10:04pm

Apple announced Apple Creator Studio yesterdayay, and I don't think Adobe fully understands what just happened to them. For $12.99 per month, or $129 per year, Apple is bundling Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage into a single subscription. The subscription also unlocks premium templates and intelligent features in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Freeform joining later. Students and educators can get the entire bundle for $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year.

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A Hands-On Review of the Pocket-Sized Canon IVY Printer

Wed 14 Jan 2026 8:04pm

There’s something undeniably satisfying about holding a physical print, a notion that hasn't disappeared as the world has gone digital. The Canon IVY mini photo printer delivers a portable way to turn your favorite digital images into prints, stickers, and more. I’ve been testing this palm-sized printer for the past few weeks, and it’s become far more fun and useful than I originally expected.

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Top 10 Questions for Photojournalist Lynsey Weatherspoon

Wed 14 Jan 2026 5:04pm

Lynsey Weatherspoon is a photojournalist and portraitist whose work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, and ESPN. A Canon Explorer of Light, she is often called on to capture heritage and history as it happens. Here, she shares why you should buy less stuff, question everything, and always pack a multi-tool.

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Adobe Firefly Boards: From Style Reference to Motion Test in Minutes

Wed 14 Jan 2026 4:49pm

Adobe Firefly Boards is built around one central idea: you should be able to test a visual direction quickly, see it applied consistently, and decide whether it is worth pursuing before you commit real time. If you shoot stills but increasingly need motion versions of the same look, this tool sits right at that crossroads.

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100 MP, Medium Format, No Video: Three Months With the Hasselblad 907X & CFV 100C

Wed 14 Jan 2026 4:49pm

Medium format sounds like a spec sheet flex until you live with it for a few weeks and notice how it changes the way you shoot. The Hasselblad 907X & CFV 100C sits right in that gap between “I can get the shot on anything” and “this tool makes me work differently.”

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The Art of Obsession: How I Learned Photography Lighting

Wed 14 Jan 2026 4:04pm

We often talk about photography as a craft or a hobby, but if we’re being honest, the greats don’t treat it that way. For the pros, photography isn’t just a career. Photography is an obsession. We live in a world where we’re told to seek "balance," but I’m here to give you permission to do the opposite. This video will show you exactly how I break lighting down through the art of obsession.

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Lightroom: The Exact Order That Saves an Underexposed Raw File

Wed 14 Jan 2026 10:04am

Lightroom can rescue a raw file that looks unusably dark, but only if you approach the recovery in the right order. When you lift a file like this the wrong way, the shadows turn noisy fast and the highlights fall apart.

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Apple Creator Studio Brings Video, Music, and Image Tools Under One Subscription

Wed 14 Jan 2026 3:33am

Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, a new subscription bundle that combines several of the company’s professional creative applications into a single plan. The subscription is designed to cover video editing, music production, image editing, motion graphics, and general visual productivity across macOS, iPadOS, and iOS.

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11 Predictions for the Photography Industry in 2026

Tue 13 Jan 2026 10:04pm

The photography industry has entered 2026 at a fascinating inflection point. What follows are 11 predictions for where the industry is headed, covering hardware, software, legal frameworks, and market dynamics. Some of these trends are already visible if you know where to look; others represent logical conclusions from forces already in motion.

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A Budget 360 Camera That Actually Delivers? Testing the Insta360 X4 Air

Tue 13 Jan 2026 8:04pm

It seems that there are new iterations of cameras released almost every second week—some new, and some with slight tweaks—but what happens when a camera system itself is unique? How can this be updated and improved from what is already quite niche? Let’s take a look.

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We Review the WANDRD ROGUE 6L Sling V2: Big Function in a Compact Sling

Tue 13 Jan 2026 5:04pm

As a professional photographer, I am one of those people who carry at least one camera with me all the time. Because of this, I always bring a two-bag combo—a sling bag and a backpack—when shooting on location or traveling around. Having an additional sling bag with me offers immediate accessibility to things I need easily, while storing all the backups on my back, and that translates to higher efficiency when working. While I understand there is no such thing as a perfect bag, I do invest a lot of time in searching for a bag that is capable of serving multiple purposes when I need them in a certain way.

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Radial Masking In Lightroom Classic: How to Make Your Edits More Natural

Tue 13 Jan 2026 4:04pm

A radial mask in Lightroom can fix the kind of “almost” photo that keeps bothering you, where the light is close but not landing where the eye should go. If you rely on Lightroom to shape mood, depth, and attention, this tool changes what you can do without making the edit look like an edit.

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Five Tiny Primes, One Small Bag: The Micro Four Thirds Setup That Moves Faster Than Full Frame

Tue 13 Jan 2026 3:04pm

Micro Four Thirds gets dismissed fast, especially when you’re staring at a dark stage and thinking about switching to full frame. This video puts real pressure on that assumption by showing how a smaller system holds up when the lights drop without warning and the job still needs to get done.

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Every Photographer Needs This TV (Samsung The Frame)

Tue 13 Jan 2026 2:19pm

There is a lot to hate about Samsung's "The Frame" TV, but It's still my favorite TV of all time.

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The Right Lighting Modifiers for Real Estate Photography

Tue 13 Jan 2026 1:04pm

Ceilings decide how clean your flash looks in real estate work, and you do not always get a friendly white one. When the ceiling is dark, wood, or simply too high to bounce, a modifier stops being optional and starts being the difference between usable frames and a long edit.

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