Photography has always had a weakness for metrics, but dynamic range has taken on a peculiar authority in the digital era. It is treated not just as a specification, but as a verdict. Cameras are ranked, dismissed, or praised based on differences of less than a stop, as if such a number alone could determine the quality of an image.

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For more than a decade, commercial photographer and retoucher John Barnard has worked across high-end campaigns for brands including Nike, Apple, Restoration Hardware, and Pottery Barn. But after 15 years in the industry, what ultimately pushed him to build his own software wasn’t a creative breakthrough or a business pivot. It was a broken tethering connection on set.

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Spring often brings a shift in how photographers move. There's more travel, more location work, and a renewed focus on portability. With that comes the need for camera bags that match different shooting styles, whether that’s lightweight everyday carry or fully protected transport for larger, pricier kits.

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Every so often, Hasselblad takes to its YouTube channel to showcase a legendary product from its distant past. The latest classic camera to get the modern video treatment is an absolute beauty, the Hasselblad 500 EL/M "20 Years in Space" edition. Released way back in 1982, it is arguably Hasselblad's coolest camera ever.

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Meta has threatened to shut down Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp in New Mexico amid a child safety court battle, as state prosecutors push for fundamental changes to the company’s social media platforms.

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Trail cameras captured incredibly rare footage of cougar kittens in Minnesota -- the first confirmed evidence in more than a century that cougars are reproducing in the state.

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They fly above us unseen -- some are taking photos of outer space -- but the intense network of satellites that orbit Earth in perfect coordination could collapse in just a couple of days, according to a new study.

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Here's the thing with photography: you can take a mundane photo and think, 'Why did I take that?' But years later, that same photo is a fascinating artifact from a bygone era.

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During a Q1 earnings call on Wednesday, Meta revealed it lost 20 million users across its family of apps.

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Second View is a newly-developed app that turns an iPhone into an all-in-one assistant device for analog photographers. Not only does it include mainstay functions like a light meter and exposure timers, but it also includes a LiDAR distance scale, parallax correction, and film stock reciprocity correction.

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