A dark, high-ISO frame with a heavy blue color cast doesn't look like much on the back of the camera. With the right sequence of adjustments, that same file can carry a warm beam of light streaming down onto the subject, and all of it happens inside Lightroom.

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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed an aurora glowing green and purple over Kyrgyzstan on September 7, shooting from the International Space Station at an altitude of 255 miles with a Nikon Z9 at a 15mm focal length. The frame catches the green band riding the curve of the atmosphere, purple rays climbing above it, and the lights of Central Asian cities scattered across the dark below.

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Today, Canon announced a new full frame body added to the EOS lineup, the Canon EOS R8 Mark II camera. And I got my hands on one for an early look. 

I’ve written so many reviews and/or news pieces for Fstoppers over the years that, generally speaking, whenever a brand comes out with a new camera, I feel like I pretty much know all there is to know before ever even picking it up. But I do have blind spots, and I’ll admit that I was never fully versed on the original Canon EOS R8 and where it sat in the Canon ecosystem.

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Canon has announced the EOS R8 Mark II, a 24.2-megapixel full frame mirrorless camera that adds 5-axis in-body image stabilization while retaining up to 40 fps electronic-shutter shooting. The camera is expected to ship in late October for an estimated $1,899 body-only price. 

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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 processing them one at a time. What rose up in the developer was a young American soldier's private record of World War II, shot on rolls that had sat exposed but unprocessed for roughly 70 years. Someone loaded those cameras, pressed the shutter, and then, for reasons no one will ever know, never got the film developed.

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Does the REEL Paper 8 from Vintage Visual really let you make prints up to 12x16 inches from virtually anywhere? I took this unassuming photographic tool into the heart of the Nantahala National Forest to find out.  

I suppose life is full of “what ifs” and “could’ve beens.” 

In the autumn of 2022 I converted my vehicle into a camper and sold my house to see what photographs waited for me out on the open highway.

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