News & Announcements

RAW Support for Pro Users: Upload, Convert, and Keep Your Image Data

October 20, 2025 · 5 min read

For many photographers, the RAW file is sacred — the digital equivalent of a negative. It is the closest one can get to what the camera actually saw: unprocessed, high-bit-depth data that preserves every subtle gradient of tone and color. It’s the file you rely on when re-editing a favorite shot years later, or when you need absolute fidelity for print.

With this release, Exposera brings that same respect for the master file to the cloud. Pro users can now upload RAW and DNG files directly, up to 500 MB each, while Exposera automatically handles the conversion to a high-quality JPEG for viewing on the site. Your originals remain stored exactly as you uploaded them, and your audience sees a web-optimized rendering that reflects your work with clarity and accuracy.

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Introducing Circles: a simple way to share with groups

October 16, 2025 · 5 min read

Sharing is personal. Some photos are for everyone. Some are for no one but you. And many sit somewhere in between — meant for a handful of people who deserve more than a link but less than a public post.

Today, we’re introducing Circles: a lightweight, human-first way to share photos with named groups of people you trust.

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The Idea Behind Circles

Every photographer, from hobbyists to professionals, develops their own circles of trust. There are the friends who see works in progress, the clients who receive polished galleries, the peers whose feedback helps refine a project before it goes public. Until now, sharing within these small, recurring groups meant awkward workarounds — private messages, unlisted links, or duplicating uploads.

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AI Suggested Tags — Faster Organization, Respectful by Design

October 14, 2025 · 5 min read

Organizing photos takes time. Choosing the right words to describe a moment, a subject, or a mood can be both delightful and tedious. Metadata is the scaffolding that gives structure to your archive, but building it is rarely the part photographers enjoy most. Today we’re launching a feature designed to remove that friction — one that helps you move faster without giving up control.

AI Suggested Tags are available immediately as part of Exposera Pro. They provide quick, contextually relevant keyword suggestions for individual photos so you can tag, search, and share your work with less effort.

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RSS & Atom Feeds — powering real-time portfolios and integrations

October 13, 2025 · 7 min read

Keeping your portfolio, website, or internal tools in sync with your latest photography should be simple. For that reason, Exposera provides RSS and Atom feeds for every user and album. These feeds offer an open, predictable way to consume photo metadata and media links for public content (no API keys required). Note: private or restricted items are not exposed in public feeds, and media may be served via a proxy or short-lived signed URLs depending on visibility and access controls. Feeds can be used by reader apps, static site generators, serverless automation, or custom integrations — any environment that understands XML and HTTP.

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Introducing Pro: Unlimited Storage, Available Now

October 12, 2025 · 4 min read

Photography has always been a negotiation between abundance and constraint. The act of creating images is boundless; the systems that store and share them rarely are. Limits shape behavior — which images we keep, which we edit, and which we never upload because there’s simply no space left.

Today, we’re removing one of those limits.

We’re introducing Exposera Pro, our new paid plan for photographers who want to focus entirely on the creative process, not the logistics of file management. Pro members now get unlimited image storage, available immediately.

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Tips, Tricks, and More

Seeing in Systems: How Algorithms Change What We Notice

September 1, 2025 ·

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· 6 min read

Photography has always existed in dialogue with its systems of distribution. The darkroom, the magazine spread, the gallery wall — each framed what was visible, what was valued, and what was remembered. Today that system is no longer physical but algorithmic: a lattice of opaque calculations and engagement models that mediate nearly everything we see. Photographers, consciously or not, now compose within this system’s logic. The question is not only what we choose to photograph, but what the network chooses to show.

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Photography as Practice: Building Habits that Last

August 30, 2025 ·

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· 5 min read

Photography as Practice: Building Habits that Last

Art rarely arrives in moments of lightning inspiration. More often, it’s built slowly—layered through repetition, observation, and persistence. Photography, despite its apparent spontaneity, follows the same rule. The decisive moment that Cartier-Bresson described doesn’t appear out of nowhere; it emerges from habit, from the cultivated awareness that only consistent practice produces.

Creative work, at its best, is sustained by ritual. The camera becomes less a device for recording and more an instrument for thinking—an extension of how one engages with the world. But like any instrument, it only sings through use. Building habits that endure is less about discipline in the abstract and more about designing a system in which making becomes inevitable.

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When Tools Inspire: How Gear Shapes Creative Vision

August 29, 2025 ·

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· 7 min read

There’s an old argument that resurfaces every few months in photography circles, sometimes dressed as philosophy, sometimes as provocation: gear doesn’t matter. The phrase is usually offered as advice — a gentle reminder that no lens or sensor can replace vision, that artistry comes from the mind and eye, not the machine. And there’s truth in that. But it’s also incomplete.

Because tools do matter. Not as determinants of worth, but as collaborators in the creative process. The camera, the lens, the film stock, the sensor profile — each introduces its own texture of possibility. Certain tools change how we move, what we notice, even how we imagine light. To deny that is to deny that technology, in its quiet material form, shapes the very way we see.

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The Archive and the Self: What We Keep, What We Forget

August 28, 2025 ·

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· 6 min read

A meditation on how personal archives evolve — tying digital preservation to memory, mortality, and meaning.

We build archives to remember. To hold on to the moments that would otherwise dissolve into the noise of passing days. Yet in doing so, we confront a paradox: the act of preservation changes the very thing we are trying to preserve. Every photograph we keep becomes both artifact and filter — proof of what mattered once, and a quiet declaration of what did not.

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The Ethics of Street Photography: Consent, Context, and Power

August 27, 2025 ·

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· 5 min read

Street photography has always occupied a complicated space — both literally and ethically. It thrives in the unpredictable theater of public life, where chance encounters and fleeting gestures become visual poetry. Yet beneath its spontaneity lies an enduring tension: the photographer’s right to document versus the subject’s right to privacy. This tension has existed for more than a century, shaped by shifting social norms, laws, and technologies. Today, as cameras have become ubiquitous and sharing instantaneous, that debate feels sharper than ever.

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