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RPS behind the scenes: How I bodge hardware photography

A picture is worth a thousand lies

A 2026 Steam Controller propped up on a desk, with badly drawn red highlights noting the phone stand propping it up.
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun

It was Ansel Adams, the pioneering landscape photographer, who once declared: "You don’t take a photograph, you make it." Evidence suggests he was talking about pictures of mountains and cool-looking sticks, rather than computer components and handheld game devices, but we in the PC media biz could still stand to learn from Adams’ timeless wisdom.

All of which is to say: my hardware photos are full of bullshit.

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James Archer: Dep ed James has been rattling around RPS in some way, shape, or form since 2015. As the site's former hardware editor, and owner of the tiniest screwdrivers out of anyone on the team, he writes about both games and the beep-boop stuff you play them with.
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