Digital Photography School

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Digital Photography SchoolTech8 Tips to Make Your Portrait Subjects Comfortable Make your portrait subjects comfortable with our 8 practical tips. Learn how to create relaxed poses, get great smiles, and more.

September 24

Digital Photography SchoolTechIntroducing James and Jason, New Tripods from 3 Legged Thing As one of the esteemed (ok, maybe that’s a bit much) pro team members for the 3 Legged Thing brand, I’m excited to introduce you to the new kids, James and Jason!

September 9

Digital Photography SchoolTechHitch your Wagons! Photography Wagon from Westcott! Westcott Launches the Photography Wagon: A Rolling Gear Cart with a Built-In Boom Arm The team over at Westcott has announced the Photography Wagon!

August 25

Digital Photography SchoolTechWestcott Expands FJ Wireless Lighting System Westcott Expands FJ Wireless System with New FJ100 Touchscreen Strobe and FJ100 Touchscreen Speedlight Compact 100Ws lights with industry-leading battery performance and intuitive controls Westcott…

August 4

Digital Photography SchoolTechPeak Design Rethinks the Traditional L-Bracket with New Field Bracket System The Kickstarter for Peak Design’s new Field-Bracket is off and running, you can check it out here. Meanwhile, here’s the press release for you to have a gander at; San Francisco, CA (July 21st, 2026)…

July 26

Digital Photography SchoolTechFlash photography isn’t that scary I was thinking back to when I got my first flash — a Canon 430EX, the kind that pops into your hotshoe (that funny metal bracket on top of your camera, if you’re new to all this).

July 25

Digital Photography SchoolTech6 Best Photo Sharpening Software to Fix Blurry Images 6 Best Photo Sharpening Software to Fix Blurry Images Soft photos lack contrast along edges and lose fine detail upon close inspection.

July 17

Digital Photography SchoolTechWhite Balance in Photography: The Essential Guide How can you use white balance to improve your photos? Learn how to set white balance in-camera, fix it in Lightroom, and use the newest AI-assisted tools.

July 15

Digital Photography SchoolTechPeak Design Pro Tripod – Stands on its own three feet? I Don’t often do this (around this way, kind of topsy turvy) but after a couple more weeks along from when I wrote up my review below, I wanted to head out and get some extra solid use of the sticks…

July 8

Digital Photography SchoolTechThe Secret Lives of Camera Bags I own several camera bags, and I’m increasingly convinced they gossip when I’m not looking. The sling bag thinks it’s adventurous because it once visited Iceland.

July 5

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