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• Forget the Foreground: Why Doing This Will Improve Your Landscape Photos

  11-02-2023 16:02 via fstoppers.com
  
  We all know what the rule of thirds is, right? And we all know that in the bottom third of the frame, we often have a foreground element of interest. Take a look here to see how going without any foreground at all can greatly improve your landscape images.[ Read More ]
  
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• Does a Monochrome-Only Camera Really Make Sense?

  02-09-2026 18:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  If you had a camera that only shoots in black and white, would you be satisfied with it? Let’s talk about what such a camera can actually bring to the table. We all know that, from the invention of the process of photography until some decades ago, black and white was the only choice until further innovations made color film possible. That is why, for most people, seeing photographs in black and white, regardless of how they were made to be so, gives a feeling of nostalgia and sentim
  
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• Why One Photographer Stopped Chasing the Perfect Shot After 17 Years

  02-09-2026 17:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Most photographers plan every trip down to the parking spot, the light, and the exact viewpoint. There is another way to work, one that starts with knowing nothing about what you'll shoot when you leave the house. [Read More]
  
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• The Lightroom Classic Preset Trick That Regenerates Masks on Every Photo

  02-09-2026 15:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Presets that carry AI masks are the trick most landscape shooters overlook, and they can shave real minutes off every edit. Fall gives you a short window of color, cool air, and quieter parks, so the less time you spend clicking through the same steps in Lightroom Classic, the more frames you bring home. [Read More]
  
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• A $700 Smart Telescope vs. a $4,000 Milky Way Rig: Which Wins?

  02-09-2026 13:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  A $700 smart telescope and a $4,000 traditional rig pointed at the same patch of sky on the same night in northern New Mexico, and the gap between them was smaller than the price tags suggest. If you've been weighing whether a point-and-shoot device can stand in for a full Milky Way setup, this is the comparison that answers it. [Read More]
  
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• The Foreground Mistake That Kills Depth in Your Images

  02-09-2026 11:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  A landscape image either pulls the viewer into the scene or leaves them looking at a flat surface, and the difference usually comes down to how you handle depth. Master a few composition habits and your photos start to feel like a place someone could walk into rather than a picture on a screen. [Read More]
  
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• GoPro Is Being Bought for $285 Million and Pivoting to AI and Defense Optics

  02-09-2026 04:45 via fstoppers.com
  
  GoPro has agreed to merge with a privately held optics company called Starman Optical in a deal worth $285 million. The company will stay listed on the Nasdaq, keep selling cameras, and push into AI data center hardware and defense. [Read More]
  
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• Dyson Just Put a Live Camera Inside a Toothbrush, and It Streams to an App

  02-09-2026 04:34 via fstoppers.com
  
  Dyson has built a toothbrush with a working camera inside the head, and it streams a live view of your mouth to a phone app. It went on sale September 1, 2026, at $499. [Read More]
  
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• The 1-Inch Sensor Is Not One Inch, and the Name Is a 70-Year-Old Fossil

  01-09-2026 23:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Check the active imaging area specified for the sensor inside a Sony RX100 and you get 13.2 x 8.8 mm, with a diagonal of about 15.86 mm. That is close to 16 mm, not the 25.4 mm that an inch is supposed to be. The "1 inch" printed on the spec sheet does not describe any dimension of the imaging area, and the reason runs all the way back to a glass vacuum tube that stopped being manufactured decades ago. [Read More]
  
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• The Ultimate Skill for Better Street and Travel Photography

  01-09-2026 18:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  I find people fascinating, and when I see someone interesting when I’m out and about, I often want to photograph them. And I do. Many photographers have commented about this and would love to do the same but don’t feel comfortable or confident doing so. [Read More]
  
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• Put Your Phone in Your Bag and Watch What Happens

  01-09-2026 17:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Most of the strongest documentary and street photographs come from moments the photographer almost missed. The difference between catching them and losing them often comes down to whether you were paying attention at all. [Read More]
  
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• John Free and the Purpose of Photography

  01-09-2026 16:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Washington Irving’s classic story of the Headless Horseman saw Sleepy Hollow, New York, as its setting. The village was officially known as North Tarrytown until it adopted the name Sleepy Hollow in 1996. Nearby Tarrytown, a historic village on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, was where photographer John Free was born. Life would take him to Old Saybrook, Connecticut, and then to Los Angeles, where he would establish himself as a photographer. It was during his time in LA that his ph
  
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• DXO Releases PhotoLab 10 with Depth Masks, Advanced Color Grading, and New AI Tools

  01-09-2026 15:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  DxO is making PhotoLab 10 available today, with some solid new features and improvements to the existing ones. PhotoLab has become increasingly popular among raw editors because of its power and the inclusion of the DxO technology that adjusts for specific lens and camera combinations. These corrections are applied automatically upon opening a file if you use the default DxO Style – Natural preset, providing a sharp, geometrically accurate starting point before manual editing. [Read
  
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• 3,000 Miles of Film: What One Cross-Country Trip Taught About Shooting on the Road

  01-09-2026 15:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  A highway fire less than an hour outside Los Angeles is the kind of thing that stops most trips before they start. Here it became the first frame of a 3,000-mile drive across the country, and the moment sets the tone for everything that follows. [Read More]
  
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• Hasselblad's Best Feature Isn't the Camera, It's This App

  01-09-2026 13:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Most camera companion apps are an afterthought, slow, clunky, and quick to disconnect the moment signal drops. Hasselblad's Focus Mobile is the rare exception, and it finally runs on Android after living on iPhone alone. [Read More]
  
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• The Case for Going Back to an Old Project Instead of a New One

  01-09-2026 11:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Four handmade photo books arrived in one week, and each one circled the same feeling: nostalgia, and the ache of things passing. That thread runs through this entire round of submissions, and it turns a simple show-and-tell into a quiet lesson on how personal work holds together. [Read More]
  
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• The Secret That Makes the Creamiest Bokeh in Photography and Why It Remains a Niche

  31-08-2026 23:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Sony sells a 100mm portrait lens with an f/2.8 aperture that meters like an f/5.6. That is not a manufacturing defect or a marketing rounding error. Sony built a disc of gray-graded glass into the middle of the lens, on purpose, and gave away roughly two stops of light to buy what might be the smoothest out-of-focus blur any lens can produce. The trick works, it has worked since the 1990s, and the lenses built around it have never been more than a niche. [Read More]
  
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• Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (August 2026): Dariusz G

  31-08-2026 19:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  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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• ‘Shoot More’ Is Good Advice If You Keep Shooting the Same Thing

  31-08-2026 18:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  "Shoot more" is one of the most common pieces of advice a photographer receives. We usually read "more" as more places, more subjects, more opportunities. Repetition may teach considerably more than novelty does. Shooting more gives you experience. You become faster with the camera and less likely to miss an obvious frame, but broad experience is not the same as measurable improvement. The problem with "shoot more" is not the word "more." It is what we keep changing while doing it.[Read Mo
  
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• One Word That Reveals Whether Your Photo Works

  31-08-2026 17:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  You look at a photo and decide almost instantly whether it works, long before you've weighed composition or settings. That fast reaction turns out to be a useful tool, and learning to name it can sharpen how you choose which shots to keep and which to walk away from. [Read More]
  
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• What Successful Photographers Do When the Calendar Goes Empty

  31-08-2026 15:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  The empty calendar is the part of a photography career nobody warns you about. Shooting is only a fraction of the work, and how you spend the hours away from the camera often decides whether the next job ever shows up. [Read More]
  
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• Ten Years of Fujifilm Weddings: The Lenses That Actually Made the Cut

  31-08-2026 13:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Ten years of shooting weddings on Fujifilm, and the internet still insists it can't be done well without full frame. That advice is wrong, and the right set of X-series primes proves it on every wedding day. [Read More]
  
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• The $10 Rule That Changed How One Photographer Shoots

  31-08-2026 11:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Photography works like language, built from patterns you learn to read until recognizing them becomes automatic. Once you understand that shooting is pattern recognition, the way you approach every scene shifts, whether you're standing in Tokyo or on a quiet street in your own city. [Read More]
  
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• Can a Monitor Really Be Worth This Much? EIZO CG2700X Review

  30-08-2026 23:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  A good monitor is hard to appreciate until you have used a bad one. While we spend decades arguing over which camera has better color rendition, we don’t pay as much attention to the screens we view these colors on. If the screen is wrong, everything is wrong. [Read More]
  
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• The Story of The Earliest Known Surviving Photo of a Person

  30-08-2026 18:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Look at the picture and you see an empty Paris street. Wide sidewalks, a row of trees, tall buildings, and almost no sign of life on what should have been a busy morning. Then your eye catches it: down in the lower left corner, one small figure stands with a foot up on a shoeshine box, and a second figure crouches at his feet. That man is widely considered the earliest identifiable human being in any surviving photograph, and nothing suggests anyone planned his place in history, least of all hi
  
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• Inside Europe's Largest Camera Vault: 50,000 Lenses and One Holy Grail

  30-08-2026 17:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Fifty thousand vintage cameras and lenses sit inside a Finnish warehouse, and most of them arrived broken. A collection that size raises a simple question: how do you find anything worth shooting with, and does the vault actually hold the one lens you have been chasing for years? [Read More]
  
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• Diffusion, Bloom, or Halation? Breaking Down Camera Raw's Glow Slider

  30-08-2026 15:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Camera Raw 18.6 adds a dedicated glow slider that folds several manual editing techniques into one control. If dreamy, soft light is part of your style, this changes how you build that look from scratch. [Read More]
  
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• Why Moving Your Light Closer Kills Glasses Glare

  30-08-2026 13:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Reflections bouncing off eyeglass lenses ruin more portraits than almost any other lighting problem, and the fix runs opposite to what most people assume. A smaller, more specular light source makes the reflection worse, while a large diffused light pulled in close makes it nearly vanish. [Read More]
  
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• The 7 Habits That Rewired One Photographer's Career

  30-08-2026 11:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  Seven habits, no lectures, and a warning about the one that quietly holds you back. That last part is the most useful thing here, because the trap it describes has probably caught you already. [Read More]
  
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• The AGO Film Processor Long-Term Review

  29-08-2026 23:03 via fstoppers.com
  
  It’s been over a year since we reviewed the AGO Film Processor from Vintage Visual. Is this mobile film processor still a good buy in 2026? I’ll show you the good, the bad, and even the ugly about the AGO. Oh, how time flies when you’re having fun. Since the autumn of 2024, I’d estimate I’ve processed no less than 264 frames across 135 (35 mm), medium format, and 4x5 sheet film. That’s not to mention the random experiments with various papers and other h
  
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