useful links

Photography links

CAMERAS

• http://dpreview.com
• http://www.luminous-landscape.com/
• http://www.largeformatphotography.info/ (the one I was talking about last week)

Photoshelter resources and analysis

• Photoshelter: 5 free photography reports (PDFs)

• example project & notes re: integration with WordPress I
• example project & notes re: integration with WordPress II
• adding custom pages to Photoshelter
• photographer review of Photoshelter

PRINTERS

• http://www.dpnotes.com/digital-print-making-with-adobe-photoshop-and-epson-inkjet-printers/

Print labs

• http://www.theprintspace.co.uk/ Dalston, good website.
• http://www.digitalarte.co.uk London Fields, owner tutored by Michael Reichmann (Luminous Landscape)
• http://www.focalpointphotographic.co.uk/ Exeter
• http://www.digitalab.co.uk/ Newcastle
• Lab comparison & reviews: http://www.theprintspace.co.uk/uploads/press/pdf/33d1cfe504-bandw-june-2010.pdf
• B&W printing http://www.silverprint.co.uk/darkroom.asp
• Various: http://photonet.org.uk/images/page/download.php?f=PRINTING.pdf
• http://www.snapsphotoservices.com/page_2169402.html

SELLING WORK

• Affordable Art Fair, London, 21-24 October
• Selling photography prints
• Art Support (USA): articles on selling photography

SOFTWARE

Lightroom templates:

• http://photographers-toolbox.com/index.php
• http://yanikphotoschool.com/tips/lightroom-photo-gallery-templates/
• http://lr.theturninggate.net/html-galleries/ttg-highslide-gallery-pro/ (good flexible, general-purpose web gallery)

• Video guides to using Highslide Gallery Pro

TECHNIQUE

• http://www.normankoren.com/zonesystem.html
• Exposing for the Highlights – Adapting the Zone System to Digital Photography
• http://outbackphoto.smugmug.com/
• Display calibration and profiling
• makingfineprints
• http://dpfwiw.com/polarizer.htm
• http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00RNOl
• http://www.dpnotes.com/digital-print-making-with-adobe-photoshop-and-epson-inkjet-printers/
• http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-lightroom-20/
• digital ain’t film http://db.tidbits.com/article/11240
• how not to buy a digital camera http://db.tidbits.com/article/11362
• Analog Photography Users Group

GALLERIES

• http://boxedlight.com/index.htm
• http://mycanong9.com/html/herman_gallery.html
• http://ryancarver.com/
• http://www.alexmaclean.com/
• http://www.visuramagazine.com (Pretentious, for sure, but some interesting galleries and also good to see how pros present their work online in different ways)
• http://www.luminous-lint.com – Database of historical and contemporary photographers.
• http://www.flakphoto.com/
• http://www.justinpartyka.com
• http://www.kropilak.com/(billboards and garages are great)
• http://www.primecollective.com/ (a new photojournalists collective)
• http://cargocollective.com/#/featured Cargo Collective art websites

PRODUCTS

• http://akvis.com/en/retoucher/index.php
• http://www.georgedewolfe.com/perceptool.html
• http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/reviews.html
• http://www.silverprint.co.uk/index.asp
• Blurb photo books
• Preservation and archive equipment

BOOKS

• New Epson Complete Guide to Digital Printing – Rob Sheppard (Lark Photography Book)
• Mastering Landscape Photography: The Luminous Landscape Essays – Alain Briot
• The Camera (New Photo), Ansel Adams
• The Negative (New Photo), Ansel Adams
• The Print (New Photo), Ansel Adams

• I especially recommend these three if you’re serious about larger format Silver Halide stuff and read them in that order

IDEAS, THE BUSINESS OF IMAGES, BLOGS

• Interview with Stephen Mayes of VII The Magazine

• long but wide-ranging and quite thought-provoking

• interviews various photo industry figures
• some interesting thoughts on RM, RF, microstock and the future

LEGAL

• UK Photographers Rights