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  • Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (September 2026): Jason Buff
  • Creating a Mobile Photography Studio Across America

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (August 2026): Dariusz G

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 /3 weeks ago

Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (September 2026): Jason Buff

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

Creating a Mobile Photography Studio Across America

This September, we are turning our Toyota Tacoma into a mobile photography studio, building a custom set into the truck bed, and driving it 7,500 miles across the United States, ph...

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fstoppers.com /1 week ago

Hundreds of Photo Tips

Today is the last day you can get access to some of the best educational content in photography this year. Yes, it comes with a price tag but the value is pretty insane.   [Read M...

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fstoppers.com /2 weeks ago

Spend $186, Get Over $4,700 in Photography Products Now

Fstoppers has partnered with 5DayDeal to offer the best photography deal of 2026. The bundle is filled with education, software, and tools from a wide variety leaders in the photog...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

3,000 Miles of Film: What One Cross-Country Trip Taught About Shooting on the Road

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 c...

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fstoppers.com /3 weeks ago

Wide, Medium, Close: A Filmmaker's Trick for Landscape Photography

You get to a beach at sunrise, the light finally shows up, and nearly every frame you take is the widest view your lens allows. That habit leaves most of a location unphotographed,...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Why Your Rushed Photos Are More Than Just Snapshots

We’ve all been there. You’re out somewhere, with a camera in tow, but the purpose isn’t photography. Maybe you’re walking with family or friends. Maybe you’re running to an appoint...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Four Habits That Separate Good Photos From Forgettable Ones

The difference between a snapshot and a photo people stop to look at often comes down to four habits, and none of them require better gear. Light, timing, composition, and editing...

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blog.henrys.com /4 weeks ago

Sony Alpha Repost: Creative Filmmaking in Motion with the Sony FX5

Some of the best filmmaking happens when the plan changes. A shift in natural light, an unexpected movement from your subject, or a composition you discover only after you start sh...

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fstoppers.com /1 week ago

Night Photography: Turn Everyday Places Into Art

We have all driven past the same location a hundred times during the day and never once pulled over to reach for the camera: the gas station, the empty parking lots, a small busine...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Five Experimental Film Tricks Tested on a Zero-Dollar Budget

Experimental film photography rarely gets a fair shake because most of the ideas floating around live in old technical manuals or die in a single frustrated attempt. Testing them y...

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fstoppers.com /3 weeks ago

The Rise and Fall of the Mall Portrait Studio

On April 3, 2013, one company turned off the lights in more than 2,000 portrait studios in a single day. CPI Corp. ran the Sears Portrait Studios and the PictureMe studios tucked i...

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fstoppers.com /2 days ago

Create Beautiful Portraits With One Lens and Simple Light

Crafting beautiful portraits with a simple camera and lighting setup is possible, and limiting our gear choices can lead to even more creative results. In my latest YouTube video,...

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fstoppers.com /4 weeks ago

Why Brands Buy Images From People You Don’t Consider Photographers

User-generated visual content is steadily pushing photographers and videographers out of commercial work. It's easy to dismiss its creators as amateurs and cheap labor, but brands...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Why Your Sunset Photos Look Empty and How to Fix Them

Empty sunsets, gray black-and-white frames, and lavender fields that turn red under the wrong white balance all trace back to a short list of repeatable errors. Fix those, and the...

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fstoppers.com /1 week ago

Every Flash Photo Is Really Two Exposures

Most people who freeze up with flash have memorized a few settings that worked once, and those settings fall apart the moment the sun moves or the room gets darker. A fixed order o...

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dpreview.com /1 month ago

From macro insects to a Magnum legend: 5 image-makers worth following

We met countless talented photographers and videographers at Sony's Kando event in Vermont. Here are some who stood out.

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Off-Camera Flash When the Weather Won't Cooperate

Rain forecast for hours, gone in two minutes, followed by sun, clouds, wind, and a location that shut down mid-shoot. That's the exact scenario behind this off-camera flash session...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

The Undeveloped Film Market: The People Who Buy Strangers' Mystery Rolls at Estate Sales

In late 2014, a lot of 31 undeveloped film rolls that had turned up at an auction in Ohio made its way to a photographer in Boise, Idaho named Levi Bettwieser, who started processi...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Why Your First Tripod Spot Is Almost Never the Right One

Most photography tutorials show you the winning shot and skip everything that came before it. This one does the opposite, walking through six attempts at a single long exposure unt...

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fstoppers.com /3 weeks ago

Was This Compact Tripod Just Years Ahead of the Trend?

When this tripod came out years ago, so many of us wanted it to the point that a lot of us forced it to be useful in situations where it wasn’t the best fit. Now that we’ve seen th...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Why Exposure Isn’t a Setting: It’s a Decision

One issue in the photography community has always lingered, and only tenured photographers seem to grasp it: exposure is a decision, not a setting.  [Read More]

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fstoppers.com /2 weeks ago

School Picture Day: The Strange Economics of the Largest Portrait Operation on Earth

One company photographs roughly 30 million children a year. Not over a decade. In a single school year. A kid sits on a stool, a stranger says "chin down, eyes up here," a strobe f...

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