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500px ISOReviewsLess in the Frame: Minimalist Photography for Quiet Seasons By November, the landscape has been stripped back. Leaves are down, colors have faded to browns and greys, and the busy abundance of summer is gone. Many photographers treat this as the dead season.

11.05

500px ISOReviewsDark and Moody Photography: Creating Eerie Atmosphere for Halloween Halloween gives photographers permission to lean into the shadows. But the most unsettling images rarely depend on costumes or plastic skeletons.

10.29

500px ISOReviewsShorter Days, Stronger Images: A Guide to Low Light Photography By late October, the light is leaving earlier every evening. Commutes happen at dusk, afternoon walks end in darkness, and the window for good light seems to shrink by the week.

10.23

500px ISOReviewsInto the Mist: Creating Atmosphere with Fog Photography Fog changes everything it touches. Familiar streets become mysterious, busy landscapes turn quiet, and cluttered backgrounds dissolve into soft grey.

10.08

500px ISOReviewsBeyond the Postcard: Fresh Approaches to Fall Foliage Photography Every October, the same image floods photo feeds: a wide hillside ablaze with color, shot at midday, saturation pushed to the limit. It’s pretty, and it’s forgettable.

10.01

500px ISOReviewsFrom Everyday Scenes to Meaningful Stories The photographers whose work stays with you aren’t necessarily shooting in extraordinary places with exceptional subjects.

09.24

500px ISOReviewsUsing Color to Shape Emotion in Photography Every color in a photograph is doing emotional work, whether you intend it or not. A cool blue cast reads as distance or calm. A warm orange glow feels intimate and fleeting.

09.17

500px ISOReviewsEline Deckers: Black and White Street Photography in Antwerp | 500px Photographer Spotlight Eline Deckers works in hard light and is not afraid of the dark. The Antwerp-based photographer shoots under the name Studio EDX, and she makes black-and-white street photography with the contrast…

09.15

500px ISOReviewsHonest Moments: Capturing Real Human Connection The most technically perfect portrait in the world can feel empty if nothing real is happening in it. Real human connection photography isn’t about the right light or the right lens.

09.10

500px ISOReviewsVideo on 500px Is Live: Everything New in This Update Photography doesn’t stand still. So today we shipped the biggest update to 500px in years, and video on 500px leads it. The site is faster. It fits any screen properly.

09.10

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