Photographer is the most complete Camera and Lighting add-on for Blender 3.x and 4.x, compatible with EEVEE and Cycles (LuxCore is not supported anymore).
It vastly expands your camera and lighting toolset with Physical Camera properties, Bokeh textures, Camera and Lens Post FX, Physical Lights with photometric units, Gobos and IES… It also includes Render Queue manager, Mixer interfaces for Lights, Emissive materials and Worlds.

Photographer 5 exclusive features:

Camera and Lens Effects, adds Lens distortion, Chromatic Aberration, Fringing, Sharpen, Film Grain and more… (works best with Blender 3.5 and its realtime Viewport Compositor)

Light Gobos and IES (Cycles only), add textures to your lights in a couple of clicks to break up that perfect CGI look. A small library of textures is included and will keep growing.

Light Placement Modal, quickly create a Light on the object under the mouse, or create faster character lighting using a target and orbit controls.

Photographer Main Camera, introducing a hierarchy where one camera will define the default settings for the scene.

Improved Light Mixer UI, now more usable with many lights in your scene.

THIS IS THE LATEST UPDATE AS OF 22 august 2025 AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE.

Compatible with Blender 4.5 and 5.0 Alpha (version of August 17th 2025).
New Automatic Conversion Tool when opening .blend files. This is an important feature to make sure Photographer scenes stay compatible with new Blender versions, while informing you of the changes it will do to your scene.
Converting Photographer properties (Per Square Meter, Light Exposure) to new Blender 4.5 properties (Normalize, Exposure).
For the sake of accuracy with Physical Lights, “Normalize” will appear in Photographer’s UI as ” /m² ”
Added “Compensate Color” to World HDRI to divide by the Color or Temperature / Tint instead of multiplying it.
Added Custom Lens (OSL) properties to the Camera panel.
Replaced World HDRI properties with direct Material properties that support animation.
Fixed per-camera View Layer that was not updating with Camera Timeline Markers.
Fixed Vulkan crash with White Balance, Exposure and HDRI Ground pickers.
Fixed Context error in Light and Emissive mesh Selection tool.
Fixed missing panels in the Sticky Menu with certain preference settings.
UI fixes and stability improvements.