Roughly 10% of the global population is left-handed. That is approximately 800 million people. In almost every industry that manufactures hand-operated tools, those 800 million people can buy a product designed for them. In the camera industry, they cannot.

I'm always curious to see what accomplished photographers use as their "rules of thumb" or "best practices." This video offers five tips to improve anyone's travel photography, including one I wish I'd heard before my recent trip. 

Trying different genres of photography can be both challenging and rewarding, especially when you either feel like a change or when the seasons force your hand. But have you ever considered infrared?

The deficit of trust in ICM stems from an underdeveloped language of results. While we can describe how to move the camera, we lack the criteria to evaluate what has emerged. This final part addresses the legitimacy of formal photographic practice in a culture dominated by "image-as-statement" and examines why beauty, without a named visual task, is so easily reduced to a gimmick.

What photographing Jennifer Hermoso taught me about editorial photography, trust, and why magazine covers still matter.

Magazine covers still matter.

That may sound almost old-fashioned in a time dominated by feeds, algorithms, and endlessly scrolling images that disappear seconds after being seen. Yet the magazine cover remains a strange exception. It still carries weight, it still feels curated rather than accidental, and perhaps most importantly, it still says something about the image selected to represent an entire story.

AI software for photographers is getting so good that it is both incredible and a little horrifying. Every few months, a new app claims it can save us time, but most of them still only handle one piece of the job. Aftershoot’s newest update feels different.

Almost every camera you have ever used works the same way out of the box: press the shutter button halfway to focus, press it all the way to take the photo. One button, two jobs. It is so intuitive that most photographers never question it. You half-press, the camera focuses, you press the rest of the way, the shutter fires. Simple.

Do you have problems defining yourself as a photographer? Do other people label you as a certain genre of photographer, but you feel that label is incorrect? If so, or even if you don't care about labels, this is a great video to make you think about what you shoot and why.

The Viltrox 90mm f/2.2 Evo is one of those lenses that shouldn't perform as well as it does at its price. At $369, it sits in territory where you'd normally make compromises on sharpness, autofocus, or build quality, and this lens largely refuses to do that.

Spurn Point is one of the most dynamic coastal locations in the UK, and right now it looks completely different from how it did just a few months ago. If you shoot long exposures on the Yorkshire coast, that change matters more than you might expect.

Multiple exposure photography sits at an interesting intersection of technique and abstraction, and the way you execute it in-camera versus in post produces genuinely different results worth understanding before you commit to one approach.

The Sony a7R VI sits at just under $5,000, and it's aimed squarely at shooters who want maximum resolution without sacrificing speed. What makes this camera unusual is that it manages to close the gap between high-resolution and high-speed shooting in ways the Sony a7R V simply couldn't.

Somewhere in a closet or on a shelf, many photographers have a camera they love holding. Not because it has the best sensor or the fastest autofocus or the most impressive spec sheet, but because it feels right in the hand and looks right hanging from the neck. The texture of the grip. The color of the body. The glint off a machined aluminum dial when you tilt the camera in your hand. These are not specifications. They are qualities, and they affect how often the camera leaves the house, which is the only variable that determines how many photographs get made.

There was a time when I believed being prepared for landscape photography meant carrying as much gear as possible.

"There's no way the scene looked like that when you took the picture. Show us the raw file." Have you ever had questions like these asked of you when sharing your work online?

It doesn't matter if you are a hobbyist or a professional photographer; everyone needs to reset and remind themselves of some simple truths of the genre from time to time. This video offers excellent advice that every photographer should consider whenever they pick up a camera. 

Picking the right weather-sealed camera for wildlife shooting in genuinely rough conditions is harder than it sounds, and most reviews don't test gear the way it actually gets used. Todd DeWald took the OM System OM-5 Mark II out for its first field session in 45-degree, rainy, wind-blown grassland conditions to find out exactly what this camera can handle before committing to a full month of testing.

Shooting wildlife with a 500mm prime is a commitment. The reach, the image quality, the background compression — nothing quite replicates it, but there are real trade-offs that push even experienced wildlife shooters toward zoom lenses over time.

Shooting inside a historic church with nothing but available light sounds romantic until the sun moves and you're left in the dark. That's where Andrew Banner's video on shooting Wiggenhall Church in Norfolk gets genuinely useful.

Shooting street fashion in a busy city location is a real compositional challenge. The background competes with the subject, the light shifts constantly, and the difference between a clean frame and a cluttered one often comes down to one or two decisions made on the fly.

Researchers at the University of Washington have embedded rice-grain-sized cameras into a pair of off-the-shelf Sony WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds. The prototype, called VueBuds, captures low-resolution black-and-white images, transmits them over Bluetooth to a phone, and processes them through an on-device vision language model that can answer questions about whatever the wearer is looking at. 

Every few months the same narrative comes back: "The camera industry is dying." It sounds clean, dramatic, and easy to share. But the camera industry isn't really dying. It already lost 90% of its market and learned how to call it "stability." 

Photography, despite what the internet has spent the last fifteen years trying to convince you, is not about photography. It is about life. Photography is simply what happens when life collides with awareness. The camera is not the source. It is the witness.

Picking the right portrait kit gets expensive fast, and the gap between a budget Canon setup and a professional one can easily run into thousands of dollars. James Reader tested two real-world rigs against each other to find out whether that price difference shows up in actual portraits.

Picking a camera that's always with you is harder than it sounds, and most people get it wrong by chasing specs instead of asking what the camera is actually for. The concept of a "journal camera" reframes that question entirely, and it's one of the more useful ideas you'll encounter if you're trying to figure out which second camera actually makes sense.