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Michael Bonocore

How to Turn a Flat, Noisy RAW Into a Finished Milky Way Photograph

Two night landscapes: Left, the Milky Way over mountains reflected in a calm lake; right, the Milky Way stretches above trees and a rustic wooden cabin under a clear star-filled sky.

The Milky Way that arched over the Tetons looked nothing like the RAW file that came home. At two in the morning, on Matt Suess' camera, it glowed. On his computer the next day it was flat and gray, the core buried in noise, the color drained out. Every photographer who has pointed a camera at the night sky knows that gap between the glow on the camera and the flat file the next morning. Getting that glow back is the real work.

Jeremy Gray

This Is the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way’s Center Ever Taken

A dense field of stars and cosmic dust fills the image, creating a golden and reddish nebula-like effect, with bright and faint stars scattered throughout the scene.

For just over a single day, the European Space Agency's (ESA) cutting-edge Euclid Space Telescope pointed its lens toward the relatively close and extremely bright inner region of the Milky Way galaxy, known as the galactic bulge. The space telescope made good use of its time, capturing the largest and most detailed photo ever of the Milky Way's galactic center.

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Kate Garibaldi

The PGYTECH OneGo Roamer Is an Excellent Hybrid Camera Bag

A person in a red dress stands in a colorful wildflower field at sunset, wearing a beige backpack. The sky is partly cloudy, and the PetaPixel Showcase logo appears in the lower left corner.

PGYTECH has built a reputation for designing camera accessories that sit between professional function and everyday usability, and the OneGo Roamer Tote Backpack continues that approach. Available in both 18L and 25L versions, it is designed to switch between a dedicated camera backpack and a more casual tote-style carry solution.

Kate Garibaldi
A woman in a red dress poses at a podium inside a photo studio setup. A close-up shows her smiling with red lipstick, holding a red rose near her face.

Westcott’s New More Durable V-Flat Ditches the Foam Core

Westcott has announced a new portable V-Flat system designed to provide photographers and filmmakers with a more durable alternative to traditional foam core V-Flats. Featuring a collapsible aluminum frame, washable fabric surfaces, and a travel-friendly design, the company says the new V-Flat is built for creators who need light control tools that can move between studio and location work.

Jeremy Gray

The Best Prime Day Deals on Cameras

Three cameras on a dark blue background: a DJI Osmo Pocket handheld camera, a Sony Alpha mirrorless camera, and a Fujifilm Instax instant camera with a photo emerging from it.

Prime Day has arrived, which means deals on nearly every product under the Sun. For photographers, the big question is: What are the best deals on cameras? There are a fair number of pretty compelling ones, from instant film cameras all the way up to professional-grade digital cameras.

Jeremy Gray
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Another Coach Complains About Photographers at the World Cup

England national team coach Thomas Tuchel made headlines last week for two reasons. One, his team sailed to an easy 4-1 victory over European rival Croatia. And two, Tuchel complained about how the gaggle of photographers positioned between Tuchel and his players ruined a really important pre-game moment during England's national anthem. Another coach, German manager Julian Nagelsmann, is 100% on Tuchel's side.

Jaron Schneider

This Is All So Weird and, Frankly, Stupid

Three handheld cameras with screens are displayed upright against a blurred colorful background, with the word "WHY?" in large white letters overlaid across the center of the image.

For the past several months, the photography community has been subjected to the strangest series of product launches that we've ever seen. I use the word "launches" very loosely, because two-thirds of those products have yet to actually "launch."

Jeremy Gray

Photographer Jake Guzman Captures America’s Almost-Alien Landscapes

A collage of three landscapes: a rugged coastline with turquoise water, a river winding through autumn forests and snowy mountains, and misty forested rock formations rising from blue-green water.

Travel and nature photographer Jake Guzman has spent the past two years creating Otherworldly America, a new 256-page photography book that features hundreds of photos Guzman has captured all across America, from Alaska and Hawai'i all the way to New England. It is a beautiful look at what makes the United States such a special place for landscape photographers, and a rich well of photo opportunities that can never truly be exhausted.

Kate Garibaldi
A Sony Alpha camera is centered between a Canon lens and an Olympus lens. Below are two folded carbon fiber tripods, all on a blue patterned background.

Top Father’s Day Photography Deals on Cameras, Lenses, and Tripods

Looking for a Father's Day gift for the dad-slash-photographer in your life, or maybe that's you? This week's Father's Day deals include substantial savings on cameras, lenses, and tripods from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, OM System, Manfrotto, Gitzo, Falcam, Fotopro, and Zeiss, with discounts of hundreds to thousands of dollars on select items.

Jeremy Gray
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TourBox Dynamic Panel V2 Enables Robust Full-Screen Photo Editing in Lightroom

Last fall, TourBox released the Dynamic Panel for Lightroom, a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic and Lightroom that enabled full-screen, clutter-free photo editing inside Lightroom when used alongside the TourBox Elite creative editing console. Dynamic Panel V2 has arrived with several new panels that photographers demanded.