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In March 1942, the Acme photo agency sent a photographer to Naval Air Station Alameda for a story about what women should and should not wear around machinery. On March 24, he made a frame of a 20-year-old machine shop worker bent over a lathe, her hair tied back in a polka-dot bandanna. Somebody then typed a caption with her name in it, glued the slip to the back of the print, and shipped it out to newspapers.
For over a decade, Pixieset has built its name on gallery hosting and then expanded into photography business management with Studio Manager. Now it turns its head to tackling what happens in the gap between the shoot and the delivered gallery. Pixieset Photo Editor is an AI-assisted culling and raw editing app for photographers that brings culling, editing, and gallery delivery into one workflow. Photographers can cull large shoots, batch edit in their own style, make advanced raw adjustments, and publish finished photos directly to a Pixieset gallery.
If you’ve ever been out exploring a place, especially one that has a lot of interesting subjects, you would know how having an organized and efficient bag can impact your output. These new accessories for the WANDRD ROGUE bags offer to take the user experience to a whole new level.
Photography has worked without a camera and without shooting. Generative images test what is left after that.
You spend twenty years building a photographic archive, then train a generative model on it. The model begins producing images that look unmistakably like your work. Are those images photography?
Two questions hide in that one. Are the images photographs? And can the practice that produced them still be photographic?
The Fstoppers community is brimming with creative vision and talent. Every day, we comb through your work, looking for images to feature as the Photo of the Day or simply to admire your creativity and technical prowess. In 2026, we're featuring a new photographer every month, whose portfolio represents both stellar photographic achievement and a high level of involvement within the Fstoppers community.
The way you set up your Lightroom Classic catalog decides how fast you can find a shoot from two years ago and how much work your next backup will be. Most people make that call in their first month with the software, long before they have enough photos to see how it plays out.
