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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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Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, a new subscription bundle that combines several of the company’s professional creative applications into a single plan. The subscription is designed to cover video editing, music production, image editing, motion graphics, and general visual productivity across macOS, iPadOS, and iOS.

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The photography industry has entered 2026 at a fascinating inflection point. What follows are 11 predictions for where the industry is headed, covering hardware, software, legal frameworks, and market dynamics. Some of these trends are already visible if you know where to look; others represent logical conclusions from forces already in motion.

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It seems that there are new iterations of cameras released almost every second week—some new, and some with slight tweaks—but what happens when a camera system itself is unique? How can this be updated and improved from what is already quite niche? Let’s take a look.

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As a professional photographer, I am one of those people who carry at least one camera with me all the time. Because of this, I always bring a two-bag combo—a sling bag and a backpack—when shooting on location or traveling around. Having an additional sling bag with me offers immediate accessibility to things I need easily, while storing all the backups on my back, and that translates to higher efficiency when working. While I understand there is no such thing as a perfect bag, I do invest a lot of time in searching for a bag that is capable of serving multiple purposes when I need them in a certain way.

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A radial mask in Lightroom can fix the kind of “almost” photo that keeps bothering you, where the light is close but not landing where the eye should go. If you rely on Lightroom to shape mood, depth, and attention, this tool changes what you can do without making the edit look like an edit.

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Micro Four Thirds gets dismissed fast, especially when you’re staring at a dark stage and thinking about switching to full frame. This video puts real pressure on that assumption by showing how a smaller system holds up when the lights drop without warning and the job still needs to get done.

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There is a lot to hate about Samsung's "The Frame" TV, but It's still my favorite TV of all time.

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Ceilings decide how clean your flash looks in real estate work, and you do not always get a friendly white one. When the ceiling is dark, wood, or simply too high to bounce, a modifier stops being optional and starts being the difference between usable frames and a long edit.

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When a client asks for raw files, the request can put your deliverables, your editing time, and your reputation on the line. Handle it casually and you risk handing over work that is unfinished, easy to misuse, and hard to control once it leaves your drive.

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There's a term in photography that sounds like it belongs in a nature documentary, and in a way, it does. "Chimping" describes the behavior of looking at your camera's LCD screen immediately after taking a photo, and the name supposedly comes from the excited noises photographers used to make when digital cameras first became mainstream. It's also a potentially detrimental habit that can cause you to miss shots.

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There are things I lived through in 2025 that became larger lessons for my career. Some of them were uncomfortable. Some of them paid off immediately. Some of them took patience. I’m sharing a handful to give you a head start on 2026.

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Choosing between the Canon EOS R6 Mark III, the EOS R5, and the EOS R5 Mark II is not a spec-sheet game anymore, because all three are fast enough. The real question is which one matches the way you shoot when things get chaotic: action, low light, long video takes, or heavy cropping.

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Open calls didn’t make photography more open. They simply replaced one gatekeeping system with another, built on paid submissions, administrative rules, and predictable results. And their influence reaches far beyond the photographers who actually apply.

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DaVinci Resolve is where a lot of “almost there” footage either gets rescued or exposed. This video argues that the difference between amateur and paid work often shows up in a handful of choices you keep repeating, especially once you start shooting log and stop trusting whatever look the camera bakes in.

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A 12-24mm wide angle lens can make a calm shoreline look chaotic if you do not control the foreground. It can also hand you leading lines, texture, and scale in a single frame, if you work it with intention.

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Sony’s a7 V is being framed as the hybrid body to watch going into 2026, and it’s getting a head-to-head test against the Canon EOS R6 Mark III. If you shoot both stills and video, this matchup hits the exact problems that waste time later: skin tone cleanup, shadow recovery, and how far you can push footage before it turns weird.

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We are living in a paradox. Cameras have never been more capable, yet the experience of buying and using them is still frustrating in many ways. The sensors are incredible. The autofocus is borderline supernatural. The lenses are sharper than anything we had a decade ago. And yet, there's a lot that can still be improved.

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Instagram is still where most people will first see your work, even if you also have a website. Ignore it entirely and you hand that first impression to chance.

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Photography is often spoken about as if it were a competition, measured by likes, awards, or comparisons with others. Yet at its core, photography is a deeply personal practice. The way we see, decide, and capture moments is unique to each of us, shaped by our experiences, timing, and attention. Understanding this distinction is essential to sustaining a meaningful and fulfilling relationship with the creativity that photography allows.

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