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The Guardian PhotographyCultureIdentity, resilience and community: early Black portrait photography – in pictures A new Washington DC exhibition aims to show how African Americans have used portrait photography to depict themselves, their communities, their aspirations and their identities.

35mmcCinemaISO100 — Why Another Photography Portfolio Service? I wanted a website for my photography, but I did not particularly want a website project. Social media gave me somewhere to post individual photographs, though not the way I wanted to present a…

Compétence PhotoFrancePhoto Days 2026 : Agnès b. marraine, lectures de portfolio gratuites Du 2 au 30 novembre 2026, Photo Days fête sa 7e édition : cinq cartes blanches inédites, Agnès b. en marraine et des lectures de portfolio gratuites les 9 et 10 novembre.

Lightroom Killer TipsSoftwareThis Week on The Grid: Lightroom Tips, B&W Editing & More It was an Open Q&A on this week’s The Grid , with Scott Kelby and Erik Kuna answering viewer questions on everything from Lightroom Classic and Photoshop to wildlife photography, astrophotography…

Cinema Daily USCinemaChristmas at the Kringles: Exclusive Video Interview with Actor Thomas Lennon ©C ourtesy of Briarcliff Entertainment The holiday season is often associated with warmth, generosity, and togetherness.

Photo ReviewReviewsOcean Photographer of the Year exhibition coming soon Winning images from the annual Ocean Photographer of the Year competition will go on display at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney from 19 November 2026 to 28 February 2027.

Camera JabberReviewsTom Way wins inaugural Remembering Wildlife Photographer of the Year award with giraffe image British wildlife photographer Tom Way has won the first Remembering Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, which is supported by Nikon.

Camera JabberReviewsStonyhurst pupil wins Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 11–14 category with dung beetle image A pupil at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire has won the 11–14 Years category of the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 competition.

The PlaylistCinemaParker Posey On Her Cherry Red Bell-bottoms, Passing On Auditions And The Choices Of ‘Wild Horse Nine’ [Interview] Spoiler alert: Parker Posey i s the Penelope Cruz of Martin McDonagh’s “Wild Horse Nine.” Like Cruz in “La Bola Negra,” Posey appears in only two extended scenes in the Venice Film Festival-winning…

befores & aftersCinemaAutodesk releases extended cut of behind the scenes ‘The Cat in the Hat’ video Part of the ‘Made to Make’ series. This extended cut of Autodesk’s series ‘Made to Make’ looks further at Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s work on the animated feature The Cat in the Hat.

DPReviewReviewsThis travel photographer’s most essential accessory isn’t a lens – it’s a headlamp From ornate churches in Lyon to coastal treks before sunrise, CamerEyes shares what’s in his bag. What’s the one accessory you won’t leave home without?

That ShelfCinemaInterview: Peter Farrelly on I Play Rocky I Play Rocky director Peter Farrelly discusses the true story behind Rocky and bringing Stallone’s journey to the big screen. See it starting November 13.

LensVidVideoCanon Announces TC-N3 and TC-E3 Timer Remotes for Astrophotography and the Compact DM-E10D Hot-Shoe Mic Canon announced two new accessories on 4 November 2026: the TC-N3 and TC-E3 Timer Remote Controllers for astrophotography and time-lapse shooting, and the DM-E10D , a compact digital microphone for…

Film InquiryCinemaAustin Film Festival: Interview With SAVING FOUR SECONDS director Rachel Klein At this year’s Austin Film Festival, Saving Four Seconds made its world premiere, telling the decades-long story behind the Golden Gate Bridge’s suicide deterrent barrier.

BooooooomCulture“Fearless Flowers” by Photographer Marcin T. Jozefiak Marcin T. Jozefiak Marcin T. Jozefiak’s Website Marcin T. Jozefiak on Instagram

Neewer blogChinaBest Portrait Lighting Kits for Studio and Home Photography Good lighting can make a big difference in portrait photography. It affects how skin tones look, how much depth a face has, and the overall mood of an image.

Colossal PhotographyCultureIn an Updated Edition, Photographer Ivan McClellan Returns to Black Rodeo Culture From California to Oklahoma to Illinois, Black communities are saddling up and grasping the reins of a horse or ornery bull.

DivePhotoGuideReviewsAn Underwater Photographer’s Guide to DEMA 2026 500-plus exhibitors, 7,000-plus attendees, and an epic 50th anniversary party!

ShotkitReviewsWhat Commercial Clients Look for When Hiring a Product Photographer Commercial clients want more than attractive images: they want technical control, consistency and photos that fit the brand across every shot.

Feature ShootCulturePhotographer Documents Water Inequality Between Utah and the Navajo Nation “Water is life. People in the cities take it for granted and water their plants and grass. Here it’s precious.

Robin WongReviewsA Pancake Lens From A Distant Past - Olympus 25mm F2.8 I find myself shooting more and more with the older Olympus DSLR cameras like the E-1 and E-620. Since I love 50mm equivalent lens for my street photography I thought it would be great to get a 25mm…

MovieMakerCinema12 Airplane! Behind the Scenes Stories (And Some Bonus Stories) Here are some Airplane behind the scenes stories we think you'll enjoy. But first: Airplane! almost didn't take off.

Colossal PhotographyCultureA Rare Disease and Analog Photography Merge in a Portrait of Self-Discovery “ Everything Twice ” is a quiet meditation on disability and the ways we orient ourselves in the world.

MovieMakerCinemaSean Connery as 007: 12 Behind the Scenes Images of Bond at His Best Here are 12 behind the scenes photos of Sean Connery — the first and best James Bond, aka 007 — to appear in films. From his debut in Dr.

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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