Fstoppers

A budget 85mm can look perfect on paper, then punish you in the exact situations that make 85mm worth owning: wide-open portraits, backlit scenes, and close-up framing. The Meike 85mm f/1.8 SE Mark II lens is interesting because it isn’t just “another cheap prime,” it’s a native Canon EF option that also invites adapting to newer Canon RF bodies.

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Midday beach light can look brutal through an ultra-wide. If most of your landscape time is squeezed into sunrise and sunset, this approach pushes you to build usable skills when the sun is doing you no favors.

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Two nearly identical landscape images can hit your Facebook feed and get wildly different reactions, even when the platform is doing the distributing. This video puts Midjourney and ChatGPT in the middle of a bigger problem: how “real” work gets judged when the algorithm and AI aesthetics keep blurring the line.

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When the photo editing software Evoto created software so good that it made photographers obsolete, their user base began to revolt and rumors started to fly. I went directly to Evoto to get the truth.

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Thirty years ago, photo editing meant painting and airbrushing prints by hand. Then Photoshop arrived and wiped out most of those jobs.

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In an era of AI perfection, your biggest asset is reality. Here is how to make your portfolio more authentic.

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There has been a lot of hype around the Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III. With phone cameras getting better than ever, it’s a fair question to ask who would even want a pocket-sized camera that takes up extra space. The answer, it seems, is a lot of people. The G7 X Mark III has become one of the hottest compact cameras again, and its popularity doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

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hotography generates endless critique, but usefulness is far less common. Some feedback clarifies decisions, while other forms quietly replace them with rules, authority, and caution. Learning to tell the difference has become a necessary skill for anyone who wants to keep their own criteria intact.

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A wide angle lens can make a scene look huge, but it can also turn your frame into a pile of “everything” that says nothing. If your landscapes feel sharp yet forgettable, this video focuses on five small habits that quietly wreck otherwise good work.

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Medium format keeps pulling you back when prints start getting big and your files need to hold together under picky edits, and that is the exact lane where the Hasselblad X2D 100C starts to look less like a luxury and more like a tool with a point. If you have ever looked at a finished print and felt the color and shadow transitions were just slightly brittle, this video is aimed straight at that frustration.

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CYME has just announced Peakto 2.6, the latest version of its AI-powered media manager for Mac, introducing what is now the most comprehensive AI-driven culling and deduplication tool available for photographers and visual creators.

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The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome targets a specific kind of photographer: someone who wants black-and-white files that hold up when the light is bad and the pace is fast. If you rely on a pocket camera and you care about tones more than color, this is the sort of release that can change what you bring out the door.

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Lightroom Classic landscape masking can save you from tedious brush work, but it can also make confident mistakes that you have to catch fast. If you edit outdoor scenes, it changes how quickly you can isolate problem areas like sky bleed, muddy snow, or uneven water tones.

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Apple announced Apple Creator Studio yesterdayay, and I don't think Adobe fully understands what just happened to them. For $12.99 per month, or $129 per year, Apple is bundling Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage into a single subscription. The subscription also unlocks premium templates and intelligent features in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Freeform joining later. Students and educators can get the entire bundle for $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year.

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There’s something undeniably satisfying about holding a physical print, a notion that hasn't disappeared as the world has gone digital. The Canon IVY mini photo printer delivers a portable way to turn your favorite digital images into prints, stickers, and more. I’ve been testing this palm-sized printer for the past few weeks, and it’s become far more fun and useful than I originally expected.

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Lynsey Weatherspoon is a photojournalist and portraitist whose work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, and ESPN. A Canon Explorer of Light, she is often called on to capture heritage and history as it happens. Here, she shares why you should buy less stuff, question everything, and always pack a multi-tool.

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Adobe Firefly Boards is built around one central idea: you should be able to test a visual direction quickly, see it applied consistently, and decide whether it is worth pursuing before you commit real time. If you shoot stills but increasingly need motion versions of the same look, this tool sits right at that crossroads.

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Medium format sounds like a spec sheet flex until you live with it for a few weeks and notice how it changes the way you shoot. The Hasselblad 907X & CFV 100C sits right in that gap between “I can get the shot on anything” and “this tool makes me work differently.”

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We often talk about photography as a craft or a hobby, but if we’re being honest, the greats don’t treat it that way. For the pros, photography isn’t just a career. Photography is an obsession. We live in a world where we’re told to seek "balance," but I’m here to give you permission to do the opposite. This video will show you exactly how I break lighting down through the art of obsession.

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Lightroom can rescue a raw file that looks unusably dark, but only if you approach the recovery in the right order. When you lift a file like this the wrong way, the shadows turn noisy fast and the highlights fall apart.

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