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Nikon Z9 Review

In this comprehensive review of the Nikon Z9 professional camera, we take a close look at its features, specifications and capabilities, and compare them to other top cameras on the market. Few cameras have been as hotly anticipated as the Nikon Z9. Of course, that’s partly due to Nikon’s own...

Nikon Z 24-120mm f/4 S Review

The Nikon Z 24-120mm f/4 S has been one of the most highly anticipated Nikon mirrorless lenses yet - but it almost didn’t exist. In early versions of the Nikon Z roadmap, a 24-105mm was shown instead. Thankfully, Nikon scrapped that plan and eventually went with the 24-120mm design we...

Bringing New Life to an Old Camera

Maybe this has happened to you, too: You head out with your camera, ready to take some great photos, only to find that you left your memory card at home or forgot to charge your battery. (If this hasn't happened to you, maybe you're less distracted than I am.) In...

What is Purple Fringing in Photography?

Within the broader category of chromatic aberration in photography, purple fringing can be a particularly tricky problem. Purple fringing usually appears as unwanted purple outlines around high-contrast objects in your photo, like leaves against a blown-out sky. In this article, I’ll take a closer look at what causes purple fringing...

How to Get Better Image Quality in Drone Photos

Modern drones can produce excellent image quality, but they're still limited by physics. With smaller sensors and difficulty using multi-second exposures, images from drones can be noisy or low in dynamic range. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to fix these drone image quality issues. In this guide, I’ll show...

Recommended Nikon Z9 Settings

The Nikon Z9 (read our review) is Nikon's most complex camera yet, with a gigantic menu and almost unlimited customization. If you just got the Z9, where do you even start? In this article, I will provide detailed information on what settings I personally use on the Nikon Z9 and...

What Gear Does the Photography Life Team Use?

Dozens of cameras, hundreds of lenses, and thousands of photography accessories have passed through our team’s hands at Photography Life. But what gear do we personally use? We’ll be answering that question with a series of articles from some of our team members. Today, in the first of those articles,...

Understanding Chiaroscuro in Photography

Faroe Islands Landscape Photo Chiaroscuro

I think that photographers can learn a lot from classic works of art - not only by early photographers, but also from painters, sculptors, and other artists who lived before photography was even a twinkle in Nicéphore Niépce’s eye. One technique that is especially applicable to photography is called chiaroscuro. What...