Links to the Photography world

This is The association of professional photographers. There are different levels of membership. Emerging Associate and Associate levels are available for most photographers, but to become a general member you must earn majority of income from photography and be a published photographer. Benefits of membership are various and depend on the level of membership.

Allworth press has several books on Photography that look interesting.

BetterPhoto.com offers online courses for various aspects of photography. Some are short courses that run about 4 weeks and some are longer courses. They also offer workshops, mostly in Kalispell, Montana, but this year also in Ireland, Tuscany and Yosemite. Lots of good information.

NYIP offers two "complete" courses, "Complete Course in Professional Photography" and "Complete Course in Digital Photography" A free brochure can be requested with further information about the courses. These courses run at your own pace, but expect 6-8 months to complete them if you devote about 2 hours a day for it. This covers a lot and includes a lot of material and appears to work for people. I have not tried it, but I have seen comments from people who have and they were very positive about it.

I found this page by a complete accident when searching for a Canon 430EX flash on the web. This place has a lot of very good information, particularly for Canon users, including a 33 page article on using flash with Canon EOS cameras! Take some time to explore it - some of the links are a bit difficult to see, so make sure you didn't miss anything:)

My brother Baldvin has been messing with cameras and photographs for much longer time than I have. He has taken some very good photographs and on this site he has some of the most recent photos. He recently invested in an Olympus E500 8Mp camera and at least some of the images on this site are taken with that camera. Baldvin has been, and still is, my inspiration in so many ways - thanks bro:) See the News page for links to more of Baldvin's photos.

Michael Freeman has a lot of interesting photography under his belt, including photographs for the Smithsonian Magazine. He has published over 30 books on photography, including 2 books that I happen to own. Pro Digital Photographer's Handbook and Nature and Landscape Photography in the "Digital Photography Expert" series.

I picked up Dan Heller's book, "How to Make Money with Digital Photography" and read most of it the day I bought it. Excellent reading and cleared up quite a few things for me. Dan has a lot of information on his site and a lot of very beautiful photographs. He has several tutorials on his Technical FAQ page which are definitely worth reading.

Gary has some extremely beautiful photos on his site. He also has a very good and interesting blog page with a lot of good information.

Richard has some very beautiful photographs on his web site, the Two-Lane Road Photography. You can buy some of the prints directly from his website. Richard also has a very well written and interesting blog page on the site - well worth reading!

Norman Koren is a landscape photographer who became involved with photography in the early sixties. He has a lot of very good tutorials on photography and digital imaging on his website. Most of Norman's recent work is done on Canon EOS 10D and 20D. He offers prints for sale as well, done using pigment based Epson 2200 printer.

By many Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is considered to be THE landscape photographer. His black and white prints from the Yosemite and Sierra mountains area are legendary. Among other things he served as principal photograph consultant for camera manufacturers such as Polaroid and Hasselblad Prints with Ansel's photos can be purchased from this site, as well as Calendars, books and various other things.

Sarah is a talented young artist who also happens to be my step daughter. She is working on completing her BS degree, majoring in Arts Administration. She recently put up her own website, but she has been doing web design for several years.

IPN - Independent Photography Network - gives photographers the chance to sell their stock photographs online. They have a huge library of photographs from all over the world. For example they have 730 photographs of Iceland!

I stumbled on this place when I accidentally entered "itakefotos" into Mozilla Firefox without the www. and .com! They have a lot of model, photographer and studio profiles. Since I'm not very much into photographing people, it's not particularly interesting to me, but it may be to my readers.

This is a site with information about models and photographers. What is unique about this site is that it has recorded interviews with the models. You can buy a one week subscription to check it out for US$ 5.00 or a one month membership for $10.00. The site has search functions and a message board. The search is open to anyone but many of the functions, such as the message board are for members only. Membership is cheap, but as far as I can tell this is mostly models, not many photographers etc. If you are looking for a model, this is definitely a place to check out!

Adorama.com sells camera equipment online at very good prices.

dpreview.com has detailed reviews about lots of cameras, software and other stuff for the digital photographer. Invaluable source of information.

This site has some good information about Monitor calibration and profiling. They have a nice review of several methods and tools used for calibration ranging in price from $175 to $6,000.

Canon produces printers for all sorts of application, from compact photoprinters printing 4x6" to the 60" wide imagePROGRAF iPF9000S large format printer that costs over $15,000!

I use two Epson printers to create prints. I use a small Epson Stylus Photo R340 for printing small prints, 4x6" and 5x7" For larger prints I use a few years old Epson Stylus Photo 2200. It produces fantastic results in up to 13x19" although the largest prints I have made with it so far are only 11x17". Epson produces printers for a wide range of application from small desktop printers to huge professional photo printers.

Learn about HP photo printer features including DPI, borderless printing, printing without a PC, and more. This page explains the HP Photosmart Printer features, from how the printer works to which paper to use to what exactly DPI means.

Independent Color offers Printer profiling service for $46. You simply download two .TIF images, print them on your printer and mail it to Independent Color. They create ICC profiles based on the printout and send the ICC file back to you and you can then use it in your favourite photo editor when you print. Their website has a clean step by step guide on how to do this. The company is located in Savannah, Georgia, USA

Photoshop has been the most popular software for any kind of image work for years. Photoshop CS2 can do pretty much anything you want/need.

Photoshop Elements is a nice program to do quick processing of camera RAW files and do image touchups. All the images on this website are processed with Photoshop Elements 3.0. The new version 4.0 has more features. If you need to do a lot of image processing, Photoshop CS2 is a better choice, but for a lot of the simple stuff, such as red-eye removal, resizing, color balance, etc. the Elements are a great option. For the $89.99 for download version or $99.99 for the CD version, you get a lot of useful features. Elements can handle camera RAW files for most popular cameras. At Photoshop Elements downloadsite you can see what updates have been released for the different versions including Camera Raw updates.

While Snagit is not designed for photographers, it is an awsome utility to do batch processing on images. For example all the thumbnail images on this website are done with Snagit batch processing. The images are scaled to 200 pixels wide, saved in a specified folder and the name is changed in a uniform way by appending "_sm" to the filename. All I need to do is to select the files (can select multiple files) and then select the destination folder. Many more options are available during the batch process, such as color depth, rotate, edge effects (drop shadow for example) and many more.

This is not really for photographer any more than any other web developer. I found this javascript tree after quite a bit of search. I wanted to show my photos in a tree structure since I have reconstructed my database to be able to do that. That makes it easy for me to maintain the photos and set them up like I want them. Also makes it very easy for me later to move things around if I decide that I want the groups to be structured differently. It was easy to implement and plug into my existing PHP code that I had already built to create sort of tree representation. All I needed to do was to construct the correct calls to the javascript function while I looped through my database and see my tree grow:)