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  • Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (June 2026): Nina Lozej
  • Preparing for and Executing a Red Carpet Shoot Like a Pro
  • Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (July 2026): Michael Clarke

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (June 2026): Nina Lozej

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...

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fstoppers.com /1 day ago

Preparing for and Executing a Red Carpet Shoot Like a Pro

Red carpet photography looks straightforward from the outside, but the access, gear, and etiquette behind a single clean frame are anything but obvious. After nearly two decades aw...

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fstoppers.com /1 week ago

Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (July 2026): Michael Clarke

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...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

The Art of Seeing: Finding Your Visual Voice

“What style do you shoot in?” or “I see a lot of [insert any photographer's name here] in your work.” These types of questions and statements, I'm sure, have been presented to you,...

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fstoppers.com /1 week ago

Top Ten With Brandon Woelfel and How Shooting Every Day Led To a Nikon Ambassadorship

Brandon Woelfel, a New York-based portrait photographer and newly appointed Nikon ambassador, became known through constant experimentation with lo-fi props and effects posted dail...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Portrait Photography for Beginners: Settings, Lenses, and Posing Basics

The fastest way to make better portraits is not to buy a flash, a softbox, and three light stands. It is to learn to see and shape the light you already have. Natural light is free...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

The 5 Best Film Stocks for Beginners in 2026

Starting in film photography means making a choice before you ever press the shutter: which film to load. The wrong stock can make a beginner's early rolls frustrating and expensiv...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Make Mine Black and White: Learning to Convert to Digital When All My World Was Film

I am, by training and inclination, a black and white photographer. My very first exposure to black and white photography, as an artful medium, was a photograph that I saw when I wa...

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fstoppers.com /4 weeks ago

Hohem MT3 Pro Gimbal: A Solo Creator's Dream

At this point, there are so many brands of gimbals that it can be hard to know which direction to go, especially with heavy-hitting names like DJI at the forefront of most publicat...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Raw vs. JPEG at the Grand Canyon: What Four Cameras Actually Showed

Choosing between raw and JPEG isn't just a technical preference; it directly affects how much you can recover and reshape an image in post. This helpful video tests this in a setti...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

15 Beginner Photography Mistakes (and the One-Line Fix for Each)

Every photographer makes these. The difference between someone who improves fast and someone who plateaus isn't talent; it's how quickly they stop repeating the same fifteen errors...

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fstoppers.com /5 days ago

How to Capture More Meaningful Candid Wedding Photos

Ask a couple to choose their favorite photographs from their wedding gallery, and they'll rarely start with the formal group shots. More often, they'll point to something unexpecte...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

From Beginner to Professional, These Tips Can Improve Your Images

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 vid...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Why This Photographer Refuses to Chase Exotic Locations

Gear envy and exotic locations dominate photography social media, and the pressure to match that lifestyle is real. If you've ever felt like your local landscapes or modest kit are...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

A $35 Film Camera Went to Maui. Here's What Came Back.

Shooting a rocket launch at 1:30 a.m. from Morro Bay, photographing a trip to Maui with a $35 underwater film camera, and spending a week with a Lotus Emira press car on a dry lake...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Who Are the Unique Voices in Street Photography Today?

Street photography has become so codified that much of it now looks like photographers photographing other photographs. That sentence might sound unfair, perhaps even provocative....

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Can Medium Format Become Mainstream?

For most of digital photography's history, medium format meant one thing: a five-figure investment, a deliberate studio pace, and a tool reserved for commercial shooters whose clie...

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fstoppers.com /2 weeks ago

Three Portrait Setups That Work Every Time You Get Stuck

Standing in front of a person with a camera and no plan is one of the fastest ways to freeze up on a shoot. Having a small set of reliable frames to fall back on keeps you moving a...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Every Camera System's Best-Kept-Secret Lens

Every lens catalog has a flagship tier. These are the lenses that dominate reviews, anchor marketing campaigns, and justify the system's reputation: the Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L, t...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

A Towed Car, a Rooftop, and One Shot at a Spiral Driveway

Shooting cars at night in a city like Hong Kong is a different challenge than a controlled studio setup or a daytime location shoot. You're working with mixed artificial light, hea...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

The Gear a Beginner Needs to Shoot Landscapes (and What to Skip)

Landscape photography has a reputation as a gear-hungry genre, and it is easy to believe you need a closet full of equipment before you can shoot a decent mountain. You do not. The...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Wide Angle vs. Telephoto in Fiordland: How This Photographer Made Both Work

Shooting in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand, is a test of patience, adaptability, and a willingness to get soaked. Shainblum's time there produced some striking results across...

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fstoppers.com /1 week ago

Triple Base ISO and 5K Raw: What the FX5 Brings to Run-and-Gun Work

Sony's new FX5 records 16-bit XOCN raw internally, a codec that until now lived only in the Burano, Venice, and Venice 2. Squeezing that into a compact cinema body reshapes what yo...

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fstoppers.com /3 weeks ago

'We Own More Cameras Than We Have Employees': Inside Capture One's Hasselblad Deal

The announcement itself was straightforward enough. On July 2, Hasselblad and Capture One confirmed that Hasselblad's .3FR raw files now open natively in Capture One, with dedicate...

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