Honestly? When I first saw that a Chinatown passport photo had gone viral with over a million views, I laughed. A passport photo. The same bureaucratic mugshot we’ve all learned to dread. That went viral because it looked good?
But then I looked at it properly. And I got it.
Bolton Brown‘s portrait from Eliz Digital isn’t extraordinary because it’s fancy. There’s no golden hour lighting…
“A breathtaking year for British photography” –explore the very best imagery of Britain's prestigious photography awards
November 10, 2025
The winners of the 2025 British Photography Awards (BPA) have been announced. Founded as a non-profit competition, the awards shine a spotlight on the very best of British photography and celebrate both emerging talents and established image-makers – whether based in the…
Cheat sheet: What is white balance in photography?
November 10, 2025
Newcomers and veterans often ask what is white balance in photography – it’s a setting that’s often taken for granted and neglected, even by experienced shooters.
In short, white balance in photography refers to the color temperature – how cool or warm the colors in…
This 100MP HDR camera wins big: Could the Hasselblad X2D II be the finest medium format camera ever?
November 10, 2025
Hasselblad has claimed a prestigious honor at the DGP Imaging Awards. Its success in combining cutting-edge technology with enhanced usability was recognized with the Technology Award, highlighting the Hasselblad X2D II 100C as one of the best medium format cameras of 2025.
The DGP Imaging Awards are Japan’s leading competition for digital imaging excellence, judged by a panel of professional…
Tickets for the Photography & Video Show 2026 are now on sale!
November 7, 2025
Tickets for the most exciting photography event of the year are now on sale. The Photography & Video Show 2026 kicks off at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham, UK, on Saturday, March 14, and runs right through to Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
It’s the UK’s…
These brilliant World Sight Day images remind us how much more the story matters than the sensor
November 7, 2025
I’m loving the winning entries for this year’s World Sight Day Photo Competition, and not just because they’re great images. They also underscore something we often forget in an era of megapixel arms races and endless gear upgrades: the story matters more than the…
"The cloud cover was so thick I was beginning to think it was going to be a wasted trip for sunset photos!"
November 5, 2025
Whatever the weather! On a particular morning recently, the forecast for Clevedon said full-on sunshine from around midday until sunset. So I planned an afternoon visit to capture the iconic Victorian pier, which poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, once said is: “the most beautiful pier in England.”
However, such is the changeable nature of weather, during the day it remained totally overcast…
DxO has launched a raft of updates for a trio of its latest photo editing software suites: PhotoLab 9, PureRAW 5, and Nik Collection 8. The Parisian outfit’s had a busy few months, what with the release of both PhotoLab 9 and FilmPack 8 in September, and now, users of…
Explore the most stunning macro and micro photographs in the world's biggest close-up competition
November 4, 2025
A beetle locked in battle. A spider frozen mid-hunt. Tiny guni erupting like alien sculptures on a rotting log. These are just a few of the stunning images from the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) shortlist, revealed after 22 judges spent 20 hours…
Are 360-degree cameras useful for astrophotography? I took one on a hunt for the Northern Lights to find out
November 4, 2025
Can 360-degree cameras be used in the dark to image the night sky? Astrophotographers have been using circular fisheye lenses to capture the Milky Way for decades, while astronomers regularly employ 180-degree (whole-sky) lenses to image fleeting “shooting stars” and, in the case of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), produce an all-night timelapse of auroras (see this example).
