Good lights? Red Dot think so! – Congrats, Godox

Azzam Bilal Chamdy

A Post By: Sime Red Dot Design Award Winners: iT32, iT30Pro, X3Pro, and ML80Bi   Light Without Limits. Honored by Red Dot This year, four Godox products — the iT32, iT30Pro, X3Pro, and ML80Bi — have been honored with the Red Dot Design Award. This recognition is more than an award for design. It reflects our continuous pursuit of refinement — in every detail shaped for real-world creation, and every innovation driven by how creators actually work. The Award-Winning Lineup Where Innovative Design Meets Creative Freedom. Read more from our Tips…

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27 Beautiful Photos Of Wildlife In Their Natural Habitat

Jia Lissa

It is summer or almost summer in the Northern Hemisphere depending on where you live and warmer days means, great photographic opportunities. Summer is a great time for wildlife photography when the bugs, birds and animals are out enjoying the warmer days. In order to shoot wildlife, you do not have to travel to a national park or other exotic locations. Your backyard garden or even a visit to the local park will provide plenty of opportunities to capture brilliant wildlife photos. Whether it is still the spring season where…

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A Photo Almost a Decade in the Making

Asep Darmawan

One of the more practical threads running through the video is how Vila handles gear in the field. The 35-150mm is too large for his tripod without a tripod collar, which mounts from the back, but it gives him stable long exposures up to 150mm. He stacks a 6-stop and a 10-stop ND filter for a combined 16 stops of light reduction, targeting roughly a 1-minute exposure for the jetty shot. He also uses APS-C crop mode on the a7R IV mid-shoot to effectively extend his reach on the 35-150mm…

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Makeda Best Appointed as MoMA’s Chief Curator of Photography

Nana Muazin

Makeda Best | Photo by Unique Nicole/ MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has appointed Makeda Best as its new chief curator of photography, with the trained photographer set to join the New York institution in September. In an announcement on June 2, MoMA says Best will become the next Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography, filling a role that has been vacant since Clément Chéroux’s departure in 2022. “MoMA is one of the only institutions in the world with the platform and the commitment to photography…

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World Cup tests marketers’ ability to prove value of sponsorships

Nila Kartika Wati

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The following is a guest piece written by Nicole Greene, vice president analyst in the Gartner Marketing Practice. Opinions are the author’s own. The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be one of the biggest brand marketing opportunities in years. It will also test something more fundamental: whether marketers can still earn attention at scale and prove the value of sponsorships. For years, the industry has leaned into digital channels and personalization to drive relevance. The assumption was that better targeting…

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Media Briefing: Perplexity’s new ‘trust and transparency’ pitch does little to win over publishers

Nila Kartika Wati

The words “trust†and “trustworthiness†came up at least a dozen times during a presentation by Perplexity’s head of publisher partnerships, Jessica Chan, at an IAB Tech Lab event last Thursday. And yet, two and a half years after launching its publisher partnership program, Perplexity is facing an uphill battle to win publishers’ confidence. On May 28 — the same day as Chan’s IAB Tech Lab presentation — CNN filed a lawsuit accusing the AI startup of unlawfully distributing its copyrighted content.  It was the latest in a string of copyright…

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