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Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareI got back to Photo Vlogging! A Video about Autumn in Dublin City This past weekend, I did something I haven’t really done in four years: I made a photography vlog. A proper, talking-to-camera, while out and about, taking photos, and showing you around type of…

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareNew Versions of Capture One, ON1 Raw, Luminar and Apple’s Creative Studio: Photo Software News for November 3rd! Capture One has released a new update with a focus on portrait and colour tools, while Luminar’s autumn release combines revised automatic adjustments with a new printing workflow.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareThoughts on the new Touchscreen MacBook Pro from a Creative Professional The newly announced high-end MacBook Pros with PROLED display were probably one of the worst-kept secrets at Apple for a long time.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareWhy Captions, Keywords, and Other Metadata Still Matters in 2026 After my recent video on using Siri to add captions and keywords to photos , someone on social media asked a question that kind of took me aback: “What's the point?” I had assumed everyone who was in…

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwarePhoto Software News Update Oct 27 In this week’s photo software news….Lightroom’s latest mobile tools offer new ways to rescue photographs, while Topaz has released fixes that should interest Mac users.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareAI Denoise Isn't Generative AI: Debunking the Misconception For many photographers and creatives, “AI” has become something of a dirty word. I’ll be honest, I’m a bit of an AI sceptic myself, especially when it comes to generative AI.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareSteve Jobs said touchscreen laptops don't work. Apple is about to make one anyway Next Wednesday, Apple is holding its "Pro and Tell" event. If the rumours are right, we're about to get something many of us never thought we'd see: a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareNew video: Create Lightroom Captions & Keywords with Siri AI in macOS 27 In this video, I show you a cool way to use Siri AI in the new macOS 27 Golden Gate to create captions and keywords for use with Lightroom, Lightroom Classic or any photo editor really.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareDXO ViewPoint 6 Released: AI Masks & Raw Support Added DXO has released ViewPoint 6, the latest version of its software for correcting geometry, perspective and distortion.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwarePhoto Software News for October 19 A new browser-based version of Luminar has been released, bringing RAW processing and several of Skylum’s familiar editing tools to the web.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwarePhoto Software News update for October 5th There have been a few interesting developments in photography software over the past week, with Adobe introducing another way to edit photographs using generative AI, ON1 releasing a new version of…

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareRandom Acts of Photography - Wales Edition A selection of photographs from our road trip across Wales, from Aberystwyth’s heritage railway and a storm over Cardigan Bay to mountain retreats, low-flying RAF aircraft, magnificent castles and…

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareThe Website Situation for Photographers is Getting Ridiculous I thought I was done with website woes when I recently upgraded to the latest version of Squarespace, but alas, the AI-dominated world we live in now has other plans.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareDxO PhotoLab 10 released: adds depth-aware masking, colour grading and expanded AI tools DxO has released PhotoLab 10, the latest version of its RAW photo editing software for macOS and Windows.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareLightroom for iPad Finally Gets Denoise I missed this when the recent round of Adobe Photography updates dropped for August 2026, but they added a much-requested and long-missing feature for Lightroom on the iPad .

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareAn Unusual Issue Slowing Down Lightroom Classic (And How I Fixed It) I had taken some photos over the weekend, and I was processing them in Lightroom when I noticed that the software was acting unusually.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareLightroom Classic 15.5 Released: Three new key features in this new release Adobe has released the latest round of Lightroom and Camera RAW updates, and in this article we’re going to concentrate on Lightroom Classic.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareEditing My London Photos in DaVinci Resolve On a recent trip to London, I took quite a few photos and some video at the top of the Shard, one of London’s most famous buildings.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareLondon in Miniature I know it’s kind of a cliché, but I really do love the whole fake tilt-shift miniature thing. It’s even better with a time-lapse, but it works great on stills too.

Thomas Fitzgerald PhotographySoftwareAn Update on My Canon 24-105mm F4L Problem I wrote a while ago about the issues I was having with my Canon RF24-105mm F4L . I noted that for some bizarre reason, the lens got softer at 24mm as you stopped down from f4.

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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