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• The Fake Photo That Helped Sink a U.S. Senator

  31-10-2026 22:03 via Fstoppers
  
  In the last stretch of the 1950 Maryland Senate race, roughly 300,000 copies of a four-page tabloid called From the Record went out across the state, and inside was a picture of Senator Millard Tydings standing close beside Earl Browder, the former head of the American Communist Party. The two men had never posed together, and the caption underneath called the picture a composite. Tydings lost by more than 43,000 votes. [Read More]
  
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• Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (October 2026): Dave G

  31-10-2026 18:03 via Fstoppers
  
  The Fstoppers community is brimming with creative vision and talent. Every day, we comb through your work, looking for images to feature as the Photo of the Day or simply to admire your creativity and technical prowess. In 2026, we're featuring a new photographer every month, whose portfolio represents both stellar photographic achievement and a high level of involvement within the Fstoppers community. [Read More]
  
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• Is It Legal to Clone Photoshop With AI?

  31-10-2026 16:03 via Fstoppers
  
  A small team has released PhotoCraft, a free, open-source stand-in for Photoshop built with heavy help from AI, and it's designed so anyone fluent in Adobe's menus and shortcuts can sit down and start working. If you pay for Creative Cloud every month, whether a project like this can legally exist shapes how many real alternatives you end up with. [Read More]
  
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• You Don't Need a Fast Lens to Blur the Background

  31-10-2026 14:03 via Fstoppers
  
  Aperture, shutter speed, and ISO are the first three settings anyone learns, and each comes with rules repeated so often they start to sound like law. Knowing which of those rules hold up, and when breaking them gets you a better frame, decides whether the camera works with you or against you. [Read More]
  
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• Is the $1,900 Canon EOS R8 Mark II Worth It Over the Original?

  31-10-2026 12:03 via Fstoppers
  
  The Canon EOS R8 Mark II sells for $1,899, which puts it $250 above the original R8 and $400 below the larger EOS R6 Mark II. That narrow spread makes choosing between Canon's compact full frame bodies harder than it has been in years, especially if one camera has to handle both your stills and your video. [Read More]
  
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• What Separates a Natural Wildlife Edit From an Overcooked One

  31-10-2026 10:03 via Fstoppers
  
  Wildlife files need more editing than most genres because they come from long lenses at high ISOs, subjects that won't pose, and backgrounds you couldn't choose. The edits that rescue those frames, such as cropping, noise reduction, and masked brightening, are the same ones that most often push a photo past the point where it looks natural. [Read More]
  
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