Behind The Shutter

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Behind The ShutterLightingHow To Get Natural Results With AI Photo Editing Natural Tone Balance, Shine Removal, Skin Retouching, Teeth Whitening, Eye Enhancement, Backdrop CleanUp, Made Easier Try Reblum And Save 20% Try Reblum editing software for natural-looking portraits…

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Behind The ShutterLightingGetting Started With Off-Camera Flash Equipment Used: Camera: Canon EOS R5 Lens: RF50mm F1.2 L USM Lighting: Westcott FJ250 , Westcott FJ-X3 Wireless Flash Trigger , Westcott Rapid Box Switch Octa-M Team: Photographer: Sal Cincotta…

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Behind The ShutterLightingHow to Pose, Direct, and Light High School Senior Portraits Equipment Used: Camera: Canon EOS R5 Lens: RF50mm F1.2 L USM Lighting: Westcott 6-in-1 Reflector Team: Photographer: Sal Cincotta Makeup & Hair: Brandi Patton, ReFine Beauty FAQ How do you pose high…

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Behind The ShutterLightingPortrait Photography At Night: Continuous Light and Flash Equipment Used: Camera: Canon EOS R5 Lens: Canon RF28-70mm F2 L USM Lighting: Nanlite Full Color Led Wand Team: Photographer: Sal Cincotta Model: Alonna Gibson Makeup & Hair: Brandi Patton, ReFine…

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Behind The ShutterLightingPortrait Photography Tips for On-Location Shoots Equipment Used: Camera: Canon EOS R5 Lens: Canon RF 28-70mm F2 LUSM Lighting: Nanlite Full Color Led Wand Datacolor LightColor Meter Team: Photographer: Sal Cincotta Model: Alonna Gibson Makeup &…

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Behind The ShutterLightingHow to Measure Color Temperature: Lighting for Photography Equipment Used: Camera: Canon EOS R5 Lens: Canon RF 28-70mm F2 LUSM Lighting: Nanlite Full Color Led Wand Datacolor LightColor Meter Team: Photographer: Sal Cincotta Model: Amaya Grace Makeup & Hair…

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Behind The ShutterLightingShutterFest 2026 Top Talent Competition THE PRIZES: – $2000 cash prize for winning model – $2000 cash prize for winning photographer – Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 printer for the winning photographer – Westcott Fusion for the winning…

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Behind The ShutterLightingColor Correction for Photography Made Easy: Datacolor LightColor Meter Getting great images isn’t just about choosing the right camera settings. While modern cameras and RAW editing provide incredible flexibility, they can’t solve every lighting challenge you encounter…

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Behind The ShutterLightingCinematic Portrait Lighting with the Nanlite Wand Equipment Used: Camera: Canon EOS R5 Lens: Canon RF 28-70mm F2 LUSM Lighting: Nanlite Full Color Led Wand Team: Photographer: Sal Cincotta Model: Alonna Gibson Makeup & Hair: Brandi Patton, ReFine…

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Behind The ShutterLightingMaximize One Shooting Location for Multiple Client Looks Equipment Used: Camera: Canon EOS R5 Lens: Canon RF 28-70mm F2 LUSM Lighting: Nanlite FC500B Modifiers: Nanlite Rapid 120 Parabolic Team: Photographer: Sal Cincotta Model: Alonna Gibson Makeup &…

07.14

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