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Seascapes reward nerve and timing. Olympic National Park delivered here, with fast-moving clouds, shifting tides, and sea stacks large enough to bend your sense of scale.

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Tell most sports shooters you’re covering a football game with a 100mm macro and they’ll smile politely, the way you smile at someone who swears by decaf. But youth football isn’t the NFL. The field is smaller, the pace is choppier, and the best stories live within arm’s length of the sideline. In that environment—under sun, not stadium lamps—the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS Macro on a Canon 6D is a secret weapon.

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The Fujifilm X-E5 brings improvements to controls, the screen fit, and IBIS behavior during pans. Here’s a look at what speeds you up and where you’ll still need workarounds.

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In 2019, while every other camera manufacturer was embroiled in the race to develop mirrorless systems, a Ricoh executive said something truly remarkable: "After one or two years, some users who changed their system from DSLR to mirrorless come back to the DSLR again." He went further, predicting that "the DSLR market is currently decreasing a little bit, but one year or two years or three years later, it will [begin] getting higher."

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Lightroom’s fall update adds a small control with big impact on color control. If you fight uneven skies or blotchy foliage, this new option helps you smooth or separate tones without wrecking the rest of the frame.

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Trent Parke stands among Australia’s most celebrated contemporary photographers, known for his ability to transform ordinary scenes into something extraordinary. His work, with the use of deep contrasts along a cinematic intensity, explores the boundaries of human existence. With his camera, Parke captures not just what we see, but what we can feel. Parke's compositions capture the fragility, beauty, and mystery of everyday life.

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When you work in tight spaces or you want sweeping landscapes, the right glass decides whether a frame feels cramped or dramatic. This excellent video takes a look at two great options.

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Some places draw lines of tourists and cameras every sunrise. You see the same overlook, the same perfect viewpoint, the same predictable angle that everyone else lines up for, and it starts to feel like you are copying homework instead of making something personal.

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At the back of my mind, portable monitors have always been about compromise. You get the convenience of a second screen, but usually at the cost of image quality or brightness. Finding the right balance between great display quality and portability has always been tricky, especially in the budget‐range segment.

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When you’re reading this, I am in Tokyo, Japan, visiting the gallery opening of the 2024 Fujifilm GFX Challenge Grant winners. In late 2024, I got the message that my pitch was selected and I would be getting $5,000 to photograph Canadian drag performers! A dream come true! Read on to find out about my pitch, the selection process, and how I captured the images!

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In 1976, Kodak made what seemed like a smart business decision. Polaroid had dominated instant photography for decades, and consumers clearly wanted the technology. Kodak had the manufacturing scale, the distribution network, and the engineering talent to compete. They released their EK series instant cameras and started selling film. Within months, Polaroid sued them for patent infringement. What followed was one of the most expensive and consequential legal battles in photographic history.

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Some digital cameras didn’t just try new ideas. They went weird, rare, and sometimes brilliant in ways that change how you think about gear.

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Adobe just added a small control in Point Color that quietly changes how you shape color. If you hate blotchy skies, uneven skin, or muddy water, this solves problems that photographers run into every week.

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Panasonic’s latest full frame body pushes harder on hybrid performance than spec sheets suggest. If you shoot both stills and video and want open gate modes, fast readout, and practical tools baked in, this is a serious step up.

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A tiny medium format box that turns heads sounds like a contradiction, yet this one does exactly that with a 100-megapixel sensor inside a body that looks like a relic in the best way. You get the look and feel of classic gear with sharp, modern files and a modular approach that has a different rhythm than the usual full frame workhorse.

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Welcome to the next Critique the Community Photo Contest! The theme for this contest is "Color", and for the entire month of November, we want to see your best images showcasing vivid and vibrant hues and colors.

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While artificial intelligence rapidly consumes entire segments of the photography industry, there's a silver lining that deserves attention. Certain specializations possess qualities that make them remarkably resistant to replacement by AI systems. These aren't careers that will merely survive by accident or good fortune. They're photography fields built on fundamentally human skills that machines struggle to replicate: emotional intelligence, split-second adaptability, authentic witness, and the ability to forge genuine connections with subjects in unrepeatable moments.

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Design that pulls a film-era shooting posture into a modern body changes how you work from the first frame. If you chase detail and prefer to slow down, this camera forces intention at the point of capture without the usual digital shortcuts.

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The Fstoppers community is brimming with creative vision and talent. Every day, we comb through your work, looking for images to feature as the Photo of the Day or simply to admire your creativity and technical prowess. In 2025, we're featuring a new photographer every month, whose portfolio represents both stellar photographic achievement and a high level of involvement within the Fstoppers community.

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I've gotten my hands on a beta of the new, and I have to say improved, Luminar Neo fall release from Skylum. It keeps everything that's good in the current version and adds a couple of new features that will likely get non-owners of the current product on board.

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