Browse Photography coverage from October 2026 in Newsroom.
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Aftershoot’s free Photon RAW editor combines manual adjustments and optional AI guidance. The learning value lies in understanding what each change does to a photograph.
Tutorial
Decide when f/16 helps despite diffraction, with a worked f/8–f/16 exposure comparison that separates depth of field, fine detail, and viewing size.
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PhotoLab 10.1 exports an Affinity .af document with an optional original-image layer. The handoff preserves rendered pixels, with specific compatibility and workflow limits.
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Imaging World moves to Cologne for September 24–26, 2027. Koelnmesse and RINGFOTO will jointly manage the photography, video, and content-creation festival.
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Maven’s Talon lights fold for carrying, then open a larger emitting surface near the camera. The October 13 campaign introduces Mini, Pro, and Max models.
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Nocs Portal AFN7 keeps a viewfinder but omits photo playback. Its fixed-lens capture and NocDoc optical accessory define a particular outdoor shooting arrangement.
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Sanlé Sory’s Colour Years opens October 14 in London. His later colour portraits reveal new relationships between sitters, fabrics, and the studio setting.
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Spencer Lowell’s Futures Past brings laboratories, machines, and human encounters into a forthcoming photobook. Explore the official preview and ordering dates.
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Washington’s National Portrait Gallery will show more than 120 portraits from November 14. Early daguerreotypes invite a closer look at photographs as physical objects.
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The Paris exhibition presents Rafael Pavarotti’s photographs through color, staging, and the relationship between commissioned images and a sustained authorial language.
Analysis
A retrospective reading of the Hasselblad Masters 2026 winners explores how light, repetition, and overlapping forms guide photographic attention.
Analysis
How Kodak’s film-packaging investigation traced Trinity fallout, and what the original measurements and later Senate record establish.
