Photography Resources
- How To...
- Digital Photography School - tips, tutorials, courses, cameras, equipment, editing
- Technique Tutorials - using the camera, digital editing tips
- Lighting 101
- Focus on Photography - depth of field, motion blur, lighting, shutter speed, aperture, composition
- Digital Photography Tutorials
- How I Got the Shot - photographs and description of how the shot was made
- DIYphotography - great site for general information
- ShootSmarter.com
- suggest some more!
- What is...
- Depth-of-Field - also focal-length, perspective, object isolation, seperation and layers
- Depth of Field (another)
- ISO
- ISO (another) - talks about exposure, noise, ISO speed, image sensors
- suggest some more!
- Camera/Equipment Information
- Digital Camera Descriptions
- Digital Photography Review - comprehensive
- Digital Camera Review
- Steve's Digital Camera Reviews
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- Different genres
- Film Noir Photography - all about shooting in black and white
- National Geographic - all genres of photography
- Life Magazine - Your World in Pictures - journalism
- Professional Photography Network Portfolio - architectural, commercial, editorial, event, food, portrait, sport, venue and wedding photography
- Ansel Adams - landscape, black and white
- Michael Frye - landscape photography
- Wedding Photography - video tutorials
- suggest some more!
- Photographers
- ProPhotoLife - random photographers
- Web Shots - a wide variety collection of professional and amateur photographers
- The Strobist Blog - David Hobby
- Joe McNally - addresses the question "what is he thinking when he takes his pictures?"
- David Ziser - tutorials, resource list, equipment reviews
- Ansel Adams
- Paschall Studios Photography - inspiring portrait photography by local photographer, Jennifer Paschall
- Favorite Photographers' Blogs - links to 10 photography blogs by great photographers
- Fun Stuff
- kizoa - create slideshows with your photos
- Online Lighting Diagram Creator
- Real or Fake?
- Quote from the World of Photography
- Photographer's Astronomy - enter a location and get information about natural lighting conditions (and weather), sun/moon position/phases and twilight hours in that location.
- suggest some more!
- The next level...
- Understanding Focal Length
- Using the Histogram
- Understanding RAW File Format
- How to take a winning photo for a competition - the judges of the Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2009 and their professional insights into what makes a good entry for a photography competition.
- suggest some more!
- My personal library (feel free to borrow!)
- Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism, Brian Horton
- Black and White Photography: Photo-Journalism, Terry Hope
- Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques, Harold Davis
- Composition: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Laurie Excell
- The Life Guide to Digital Photography: Everything You Need to Shoot Like the Pros, Joe McNally
- 100 Photographs That Changed the World, Editors of Life Magazine
- The Great LIFE Photographers, John Loengard, Gordon Parks
- Remembering Fort Worth, Quentin McGown
- Photography for the Web, Paul Duncanson
- The Digital Photography Book, Volumes 1-3, Scott Kelby
- The Digital Photography Idea Book, Kate and Richard Binder
- Digital Photography Solutions, David D. Busch
- 50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques, Gregory Georges, Larry Berman, Chris Maher
- Digital Photography, Michael Wright
- Digital Photography: A Complete Visual Guide, Michael Wright
- The Photographer's Mind: Creative Thinking for Better Digital Photos, Michael Freeman
- Photoshop books:
- 50 Fast Photoshop 7 Techniques, Gregory Georges
- Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques, Barry Huggins (CS2)
- The Photoshop Channels Book, Scott Kelby (CS2)
- Layers, Matt Kloskowski (CS3)
- Digital Photographers Guide to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, John Beardsworth
Email your suggestions to me: sherill.maddox@fwafa.org
