5 great photography websites for ideas, inspiration and learning
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The best content in my mind is the free content and here are some of my favourite photography websites and blogs for inspiration, training and ideas…….. in no particular order…
Light Stalking is a site about beautiful photography.
We appreciate beautiful photography and our intent is to spread the word about the awesome photographers who produce it. We want to put great photographers in front of an audience so they get the recognition they deserve. We also try to impart a little knowledge about the techniques behind the art. Most importantly, we try not to take ourselves too seriously and endeavor to keep this whole project fun.
Editor – Rob Wood - Writers – Mike Panic and Christopher O’Donnell
Great site with loads of wonderful content, over 150,000 subscribers and 200 active forum, members.
Here’s a few articles we picked out
Redesign: 11 Cool Things You Can Do On the New Light Stalking!
17 Great Examples of Low Light Urban Photography
15 Random Photos for Inspiration
A Guide to the Most Popular Tools in Photoshop
Do You Make These 5 Embarrassing Photography Mistakes?
3 million+ unique visitors a month can’t be wrong and pro blogger Darren Rowse offers a massive resource in the form of the Digital Photography school.
There’s a massive community and forum and there are wonderful posts in all areas of photography including post production techniques and equipment reviews.
Here’s a few articles that are worth a look…..
Photography tips
What They Don’t Tell You About Being A Wedding Photographer
Create Beautiful Indoor Portraits Without Flash (NSFW)
Learning about Exposure – The Exposure Triangle
Cameras and Equipment
Popular Digital Cameras and Gear
Should you buy a DSLR or Point and Shoot Digital Camera?
Post production
Lightroom or Aperture? 3 Factors to Consider
Rescuing Poorly Exposed Photos with Photoshop Levels
4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop!
I like this site so much that I write for it every Friday! Seriously though Trevor Current has put together a great resource site which includes some great guest posts and of course his own weekly business tips.
We provide information and resources to help educate and inspire the photo community to make better photos. Our topics include breaking photo industry news, tips, tools, techniques, how-tos and reviews for beginners through professionals.
Here’s just a few of them…..
The 10 Commandments of a Successful Wedding Photographer: by Dominic Lee, AMPA
Dealing With Amateur Photographers During a Wedding
Three Reasons You’re Not Ready To Shoot A Wedding – And One Way To Fix It: by Angelo Stavrow
5 Easy Tips to Improve Your Portraits (and they don’t cost a dime): by Ana Ramirez
The Photographer’s Social Media Checklist
Building Your Photog “Tweet” Cred
If you want to read my aricules then go to …. currentphotographer.com/contributors/michael-shilling
PhotoCritic
This site is all about learning more about photography, from the incredibly insightful (rarely) to the dreadfully mundane (also, hopefully rarely) via just about everything in between.
If this website seems a little whimsical and random, then that’s because the author of this blog, who for the occasion is confusing himself by writing about himself in the third person, is slightly whimsical and random himself.
Enjoy!
- Haje
Founded in 2004 and edited by Author Haje Jan Kamps this site has gone through some changes and it’s nice to have an overview of the history in the about section of the site.
Here’s a few posts you might enjoy….
100 Flickr streams made of pure awesome
DIY Toy camera presets for Lightroom
In photography, rules aren’t laws.
EXTREME MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY ON A BUDGET
Editor Scott borne did top our list of 10 most influential photographers on Twitter so we had to mention the wonderful Photofocus. Scot has been writting about photography at photofocus.com since 1998 and this online magazine is a fantastic resource with a wonderful podcast.
I’ve picked out just a small selection of the recent posts…. enjoy…
Canon v. Nikon DSLRs – Does it Really Matter?
The Benefits of Going Super Wide
Nine Online Photographic-Related Services I Actually Use
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