While Cleveland and Ohio were having their moment in the baseball playoffs, a documentary began circulating about hometown photographer Herb Ascherman, whose voluminous archive includes images of nighttime fireworks after a Guardians’ victory.
It’s been a big week for execution: in Tennessee, they botched one. In Texas, they’re making plans to televise another.
We stated in our Film Friday review of Kodak Portra 400 (and again in our Portra 800 write up) that it is pretty much a perfect color film, so you’ll hopefully understand and forgive us if we start off this Film Friday by insisting that Portra 160 is a more perfect film.
Pittsburgh added a bronze star to its Walk of Fame honoring photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1998), along with other local standouts H.J. Heinz, football hero Franco Harris, George Westinghouse, and more.
As photographers and videographers, we all encounter images and footage that fall short of what we envisioned -- a noisy low-light shot, an older 1080p clip from a DSLR viewed on a 4K timeline, or a tightly cropped photo that lacks the detail needed for a large print.
Today, Getty Images announced a restructuring agreement and said it plans to begin a prepackaged Chapter 11 process in the coming weeks.
For several months, the most interesting thing about the Fujifilm X half to me was not its image quality, its Type 1 sensor or its resemblance to an old half-frame camera. It was the number of times it made me stop before taking a photograph.
Jim Wehtje is an American photographer and radiographic artist known for using X-rays to reveal the hidden internal structures of natural objects, particularly plants, flowers, and seashells.
Amazingly enough, not only is instant film not dead, it is actually thriving. That is in large part due to the popularity of the Fujifilm Instax films, so it is time for us to give one of those films the Film Friday treatment.
SmallRig’s Autumn Savings promotion runs from October 6 through 15, 2026, with up to 30% off selected photography and video accessories. These offers below include tripods, batteries, camera and phone rigs, and portable lights.
The “Hidden Mother” is a genre of photography that has been practiced since the infancy of the photographic process. Many examples date back to 1839 and the daguerreotype. A shroud or sheet would be thrown over the adult in the composition, or the mother hid behind a cloaked chair. They used varied methods and had varying degrees of success, depending on what worked for the photographer and the sitter. Sometimes an adult stabilizing the child would be just out of frame, and the photographer …
One of our staff members used to joke that combining a Holga with a red filter and a roll of Ilford SFX was like shooting fish in a barrel: you couldn't miss. While that sentiment is perhaps a little hyperbolic, it is not too far off the mark.
There’s a paradox at the heart of great photography: what you choose not to show your audience is often more powerful and provocative than what you reveal. In an age of oversharing and instant gratification, mystery has become the photographer’s secret weapon and perhaps the most undervalued tool of all. The unseen, the suggested, and the ambiguous can transform a literal photograph into an expressive one that haunts us long after we’ve looked away.
Hasselblad cameras' excellence comes from decades of engineering, and that results in a polished product built with the best of the best in mind. Everything is good: the grip and body are built to last, the optical quality is better than Leica.
There is a certain clique of photographic films, let’s call it the “Sub-100 Club.” This is a group of films who flaunt ultra low ISO ratings below 100.
By some strange turn of fate, I found myself sitting on a camera case, face-to-face with a 500-pound tiger from less than a foot away. I could feel his breath on my skin, and more than once, that same breath fogged the front element of my lens as I photographed him.
Welcome back to Film Friday. We’re featuring one of our heavy hitters this week with Kodak’s Ektar 100. Alongside the Portra films, Ektar is one of the most popular films on the market and definitely one of the most used color films out there. The film is well-known for its fine grain, vivid color saturation and poppy contrast.
If avoidance is not the best way to deal with fears, a photo gallery in metro Boston has an opposite approach: a show that celebrates fear.
With this week’s Film Friday we are hitting the highest point on the Cinestill triangle so to speak. Today we are taking a look at Cinestill 800T, arguably their flagship film and definitely the most popular of their film offerings.
A.I. chatbots are inundating the world, and few people are talking about it.
A short while ago I was reading the comments on a restaurant's Facebook group post. The post was a set of dodgy AI-generated food images, and they had that giveaway look. Too glossy, sauce behaving strangely, and bread that somehow looked like a sponge.
Welcome to another Film Friday spotlight! This time we’re turning our attention to a film that is simultaneously quite popular but still somehow underappreciated: Kodak Gold 200.
What started with a $5 photograph sitting on a shelf in a Florida antique store turned into a 76-year journey back through the early career of one of the 20th century’s most respected photographers.
Filmmaker/photographer Michael Blackshire, age 32, has made a documentary about pioneering Black photographers in Chicago, now in their eighties.
Welcome to another Film Friday review, where we like to dig into a particular film emulsion, lay out a bit of its history, share our personal experiences with it and provide some inspiration for why you should try it out. This episode features Rollei Retro 400S, the high speed member of the Rollei Retro family that also includes 80S and Superpan 200.
As debate intensifies over surveillance cameras, a photojournalist in Philadelphia has set out to document the omnipresent devices monitoring us.
“It was just breathtaking,” Wayne says, the awe unmistakable in his voice. “It was the most epic thing I’ve ever photographed in my life.” …
This week we are taking a look at Kodak TMax 100 black and white film (also now known as Kodak Ektapan 100). TMax 100 is part of a family of films that includes both TMax 400 and TMax P3200 films.
A friend of mine works in the film industry. He bought a full roll of Kodak Verita 200D, the stock Kodak built for Euphoria season three, and respooled part of it into 35mm canisters for me. That’s the only reason I have this film. Kodak doesn’t sell it to photographers.
For this Film Friday review, we are featuring one of the sneakiest best and least expensive color films available to 35mm photographers: Kodak Ultramax 400.
In a town close to the French/German language split in Switzerland lies a piece of photographic history that is worth taking a look at. In Marly, Switzerland, lies Machine E, a multilayer photographic coating machine that has been used to bring many world-beating photographic products to the market.
I recently added a camera that shoots 6x6 to my shelf. Square negatives, twelve per roll. I expected to enjoy the lens, the build, the ritual of loading film backs. What I didn’t expect was how much the shape of the frame would mess with the rest of my photography vision.
Toward the end of the summer of 2024, Lomography struck again, bringing a new (sort of) addition to its Lomochrome line of experimental films. The company introduced Lomochrome Color ‘92 Sun-Kissed, a color negative film meant for experimentation and indulging in nostalgia.
If you ask a photographer what they specialize in, they may pause before answering. That pause is worth paying attention to.
Rollei Superpan 200 is a curious sort of film, making it all the better reason to feature it today. The first impression we would give you of Superpan 200 is that on the surface it can be easily unimpressive, but dig a bit deeper and Superpan quickly reveals that it has quite a bag of tricks at its disposal.
Globetrotting Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Marcus Yam has recovered from a work injury, completed a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, and returned to the field, where he now develops, writes, and photographs features.
Ukrainian military photographer Iryna Rybakova captured the moment a Russian first-person-view drone blasted into a vehicle in Kramatorsk on July 15 amid a reported increase in FPV drone attacks on the city.
This project grew out of the many water-drop imaging experiments that my students and I have done over the years. I wondered if combining water-drop photography with portraiture might produce some unique and interesting images.
Cinestill 50D is the less popular sibling to Cinestill’s 800T and 400D emulsions. Because 50D often gets passed over in favor of those other two, we figured it would be a great film to feature on Film Friday. It is a different and lovely film in its own right and deserves a bit more attention than it receives.
This editorial photo shoot began with a simple idea, a question even: could a running sequence shot on the Hasselblad XPan create an editorial story in only a few frames?
I was four years old when my parents took me on my first mountain climb, to the summit of Fairview Peak. By six, I'd climbed my first fourteener, Mount Sherman. Climbing became my proving ground for most of my childhood, and it set a foundation I wouldn't fully understand the value of for another forty years.
We are living through the most photographed moment in human history, and somehow, street photography matters more than it ever has.
The Wall Street Journal says it is keeping pace with technology and protecting its photography archive. But hundreds of freelancers -- anxious about intellectual property ownership -- object to the Journal’s new contract and are withholding their services.
The original Fujifilm Acros film long held a special place in our camera bags here at Blue Moon Camera. We’d say that the whole Neopan line of films was highly favored by us, but we lost Neopan 400 and 1600 some time ago and Acros was the lone survivor.
Over the last few years, image upscalers powered by AI have become remarkably good at making photos larger. The challenge is no longer whether an image can be enlarged to 4K or even 8K, it's whether the result still looks like the original photograph.
C-SPAN likes the adjective “unfiltered.” Before Trump II was sworn in, C-SPAN refreshed its logo with the tagline “Democracy Unfiltered.”
When we first conceived of our Film Friday series, we had a few different motives in mind. The first was that we had long noticed that some black and white films were more popular than others with our customers. We sold a lot more Kodak Tri-X than we did Ilford XP2, for example.
Happy Football Film Friday! Football, soccer, footy... whatever you call it we know what has been captivating your attention these past couple weeks, and will for the days ahead!
In an era where we are obsessed with megapixels, AI-driven autofocus, and high-ISO performance, I find myself regularly putting down my Leica M10-R and my Leica M11-P to pick up a tool that, on paper, has no business competing in 2026: the Leica M9 Monochrom.
Linear Camera Profiles are one of those things that have been floating around the Lightroom community forever, but only a few people seem to use them. And while there are a lot of video tutorials on how to make a linear camera profile for your camera, there is almost nothing on how to use them in your editing workflow.
