Luminar has released a solid fall update with some new features and some enhancements. The update is free to current owners and can, of course, be purchased by photographers who are interested.

This new update is version 1.29.0. The update should appear automatically, or you can click "Check for Updates" in the Luminar dropdown menu.

If you’re pondering a Leica rangefinder film camera but can’t bring yourself to spend a crazy amount of money, maybe give this a go. 

Fog in the San Francisco Bay Area can bury a scene in seconds and hand it back a minute later with trees, towers, and light arranged in ways you won't see again. Shooting it well means working quickly, reading the direction of the light, and resisting the urge to stick with the first composition that looks good.

The Viltrox AF 35mm f/1.4 Pro sells for $829, and it brings a metal body, weather-sealing, and a clicked aperture ring at that price. Few focal lengths stay on a camera as long as a 35mm does, so how a lens like this behaves wide open, in the corners, and while tracking a moving subject affects a big share of everything you shoot.

The places you see every week are the ones you're least likely to photograph, since they feel too familiar to bother with. Familiar doesn't last, and the village fair or street corner you skip this year is exactly what someone will want to see decades from now.

Focus stacking has become close to a default step in landscape work, with plenty of people blending 20 or even 50 frames so every rock and grass blade is sharp from front to back. Whether that effort shows up in the final image, or whether a single frame focused at the hyperfocal distance would look the same, decides how much of your time goes into focus while the light keeps changing.

DoorDash's help center lays the deal out in plain language: a professional photographer comes to your restaurant for a 1.5-hour session, shoots up to 20 menu items plus one header image, and DoorDash pays the photographer. You pay for the food and the labor to plate it.

In today’s article, I am going to shamelessly beg Nikon to add one very specific feature to what is already my favorite camera body. 

Acrylic rods under studio light look a lot like smooth, healthy hair, which makes them a smart prop for photographing a Total Results haircare bottle. The problem is that a glossy bottle behaves like a mirror, and every rod you bring into the set wants to show up across the label.

Getting the moon to rise behind a specific building means planning for a moment that lasts only a few minutes, then shooting it in fading light with a very long lens. Even with the time and direction worked out ahead, you can still find yourself in the wrong spot when it finally breaks the horizon.

Most people learn lenses as a set of assignments: wide angle for landscapes, telephoto for portraits, a 50mm for everything in between. Those assignments are easy to memorize, and they quietly limit how many different photographs you can pull out of a single scene.

You can spend months planning a trip around one famous view and still come home with a memory card that feels thin. The pictures that bring a place back years later are rarely the ones you saw online before you left.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lester LaRue shot 44 frames on the morning of April 19, 1995, with his employer's camera, his employer's film, and his employer's car to get him there. One of those frames ran on the cover of Newsweek's May 1 issue. A federal court later ruled the copyrights had never been his.

Most camera bags in recent years have been made to be dedicated travel bags, everyday bags, or work bags. But Lowepro's Fastpack backpack line has always offered bags that can be used for almost anything without compromising the experience.

A perfectly symmetrical frame can still feel wrong, while a frame with a speck of a subject tucked off to one side can feel completely settled. Balance in a photograph covers much more than equal weight on both sides, and how you handle it decides whether a viewer believes what they're seeing and knows where to look.

Most advice about natural light boils down to two instructions: shoot at golden hour and avoid midday. Both hold some truth, yet most of your shooting happens in the hours between, and knowing what the sun is doing at each stage decides whether a frame has depth or falls flat.

Nikon's NIKKOR Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S costs almost $14,000 and weighs more than 6 pounds, which puts it much closer to a big telephoto prime than a handy second zoom. With an f/2.8 aperture and a built-in 1.4x teleconverter, it's built to cover low-light wildlife, sports, and safaris with one lens.

Viltrox's new AF 35mm f/1.4 Pro costs $829 for Sony E and Nikon Z, which puts it below Sony's own 35mm f/1.4 GM and above Nikon's NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.4. It's big and heavy for a 35mm f/1.4, with a metal body, weather-sealing, and an aperture ring that switches between clicked and smooth.

Viltrox has announced the AF 35mm f/1.4 Pro, a weather-sealed full frame prime for Sony E and Nikon Z with a 16-element optical design and voice coil autofocus. It costs $829 and joins the 50mm and 85mm f/1.4 Pro lenses, which gives Viltrox a set of three fast primes that comes in under $2,000 combined.