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"We're returning control to the photographer" – Capture One CEO on bringing Hasselblad workflows to professionals

A high-resolution Hasselblad file is only the beginning of the creative process. For professional photographers, the software that interprets those images can be just as important as the camera itself. Now, Capture One is expanding its professional workflow with support for three Hasselblad cameras – the X2D II 100C, the X2D 100C and the CFV 100C digital back – bringing the Swedish…
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Award-winning photographers all started somewhere – these are the 10 photo contests to enter this August

Whether you’re a seasoned photographer, a beginner just getting started or someone who loves capturing beautiful moments, submitting your images to photo competitions is one of the best ways to gain exposure and recognition. Entering competitions isn’t just about winning – though prizes and publicity are great bonuses! It’s also a chance to dive into your archives, rediscover your best…
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Photographer Robert Canis spent 30 years shooting one nature reserve: here's what that patience can teach the rest of us

Somewhere in the churn of camera forums and social feeds, there’s an unspoken belief that a landscape photographer’s worth is measured in air miles. New country, new light, new content – the algorithm rewards novelty, and novelty rewards the photographer who’s always somewhere else. So it’s worth noting that Robert Canis has just published Elmley: First Light to Last, a 208-page…
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"This photo captures the first full Milky Way arch ever taken at this location," revealing the night sky over Argentina's UNESCO site, a landscape shaped over 200 million years and home to Earth's only complete Triassic record

As a photographer, creating an image that has never been made before is a career-defining moment. For Gonzalo Javier Santile, Valle de la Luna, Universo Triasico Ischigualasto represents exactly that: the first photograph showing a complete Milky Way Arch above Parque…
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I can’t stop looking at this astounding photograph of a “fire-breathing dragon of clouds” – and it was snapped with just a smartphone

As a professional photographer, I’ve seen a lot of stunning photographs – but there’s one image in particular that stopped me in my tracks this week: a “fire-breathing dragon of clouds.” What keeps drawing me back to Maximilien Lamy’s photograph taken along the shore of France’s Lake Lacanau isn’t just the dramatic cloud rising off the Gironde wildfire, but the beachgoers calmly…
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