December brings some spectacular targets for astrophotographers, chief among them the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Andromeda Galaxy, which ride high on crisp winter nights. It’s also a great month to photograph the full Cold Moon, watch the moon sweep past brilliant Jupiter – acting as a bright Christmas Star — and image the prolific Geminid meteor shower in dark winter…
The Leica Picture of the Year 2025: Joel Meyerowitz's street photography masterpiece captures the magic of New York
December 2, 2025
Leica has just announced its Picture of the Year 2025, celebrating a timeless moment of street photography from one of the genre’s greatest innovators. The winning image Puerto Rican Day Parade, Manhattan, New York City 1963 by Joel Meyerowitz, distils everything we…
I know this LED light is expensive –but it's so good, it might be the last light you ever need to buy
December 2, 2025
Perhaps more than any other variable, including your camera and lens, lighting can make or break an image. And while natural light is all well and good, for truly creative photography and videography you simply need supplemental illumination.
I’ve used a lot of lights…
17-year-old captures the detail of this tiny predator with a Fujifilm X-H2 camera by patiently shooting a 104-frame focus stack
December 2, 2025
Most wildlife photographers dream of capturing lions stalking prey on the African savanna. One 17-year-old found his apex predator much closer to home… but needed a microscope-level view to see it.
Predator is an extraordinarily detailed image of a pseudoscorpion (chernes cimicoides) preying upon a springtail. It won the German photographer Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas the Youth 15-17 years category…
Progress in photography always begins with looking back. Our work is shaped by those who walked the streets before us, capturing moments that would become the visual language of the genre. David Gibson’s Street Photography: A History in 100 Iconic Photographs embraces this…
What looks like birds soaring across a blazing sun is a multi-exposure moment full of unexpected elements and optical surprises – a spontaneous vision captured by Norwegian photographer Åsmund Keilen that earned him the prestigious title of Nature Photographer of the Year…
This overlooked feature on the Canon EOS R5 Mark II makes it ridiculously easy to take great action photos of team sports
December 1, 2025
Canon’s latest AI autofocus technology needs to be seen to be believed! Everyone knows about the Eye Detection AF, which locks on your subject – whether it’s a soccer player, owl in flight, or racing driver in a car on the track. But one setting that doesn’t get enough attention and applause is Register People Priority.
This is a brilliant feature available in cameras like the new EOS R6…
Canon's latest Face Detection mode means I rarely miss shots on portrait sessions - here's how to set it up
November 28, 2025
Canon’s EOS R6 Mark III has a good chance of being the camera of choice for many wedding photographers, and I have a lot of camera buddies that rave about its predecessor, the R6 Mark II – I myself own one.
The Canon EOS R6 Mark III is packed to the rafters with…
A new book about Albert Watson shows why the "photographer's photographer" has never needed to pick a lane
November 28, 2025
Many photographers build their career by finding a niche and staying in it. One, though, has spent five decades systematically ignoring this advice. And the results, collected in TASCHEN’s new limited-edition monograph Albert Watson: KAOS, make a compelling argument…
Frozen Estonian Bog Captured by DJI Mavic 3 Pro
November 28, 2025
As a regular writer for Digital Camera World, I get to look at a lot of beautiful photographs. But this one really took my breath away.
The aptly named Golden Treasure marries a love of ancient folklore with modern drone technology. The image captures frozen peat pools in an Estonian bog, their surfaces shimmering with an otherworldly golden glow. This evokes the country’s traditional…
