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Photography Sites

Below is a list of very useful photography-related sites.

Photography Sites

Photography:
http://www.geofflawrence.com/
- A very good free photography tutorial site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Photography
- One of my favourite sites, Wikipedia’s Photography Portal. Lots of useful articles here

Photo & photo-sharing:
http://www.flickr.com/
- The best photo sharing web site there is. I have my photos here at and there are lots of things to look for. I would start on the Explore page here.
http://outstandingshots.blogspot.com/
- Outstanding Shots is a selection of hand-picked photos from Flickr.
http://flickrhits.wordpress.com/
- Flickr Hits is similar to the above but not as frequently updated.
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/scout.php?mode=top
– Top Explore photos for each day.

Tools:
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
- Flickr Toys, this is where I got my profile widget from (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/profile.php). Also, check out Scout to see if any of your photos have made it onto Explore.
http://www.shirazlabs.com/wickr/
- A fantastic Yahoo! ‘widget’. I’ve set it up to scroll Explore photos as a sidebar but there are many options. Note you’ll need the Yahoo! Widget Engine from here. Very cool.

Mags and rags:
http://www.dcmag.co.uk/
- Digital Camera Magazine is my favourite photography mag, it mainly focuses on photography technique rather than technical stuff and camera. There was also Focus Guides, which were monthly special covering topics such as Close-ups and Composition. Sadly they appear to be stopped producing them.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
- One of the newspapers in the UK, The Independent seems to be one that takes photography seriously. Since I’ve been reading it it’s had special supplements for photography and art plus several articles on the photography. It’s also a very good read IMHO.
http://www.timeout.com/
- A cool weekly events listings mag for London, includes music and movie reviews, articles, what’s on and what to do. It also has the odd photography-related article.

Web development:
http://www.pixelpost.org/
- Pixelpost is the script I’ve used to created my photo blog at http://www.squashyfrog.com/. A very useful photoblog script that you can tailor to your needs and use any of the hundreds of available themes (or be clever and make your own theme).
http://www.s9y.org/
- A web blog system. Basically I used Serendipity to create this blog. I went through lots of similar scripts/services and this was by far the easiest to set-up and use.

Other:
http://www.camerapedia.org
– A wiki for cameras basically

Stock photos:
http://www.thinkstock.com/web/
http://www.photos.com/
http://www.123rf.com/
http://www.dreamstime.com/
http://www.comstock.com/
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/
http://www.istockphoto.com/

http://www.flickr.com/people/eugy/
- Eugenia has written about stock photos on her profile, so have a read as it could give you a little earning from your photographs

Newspapers:
The Independent
- I’ve never really settled on a newspaper until perhaps recently. I’ve started regularly buying the Independent, don’t say a word. ;-) In the last few months it has had ‘free’ week-long specials including ‘Improve Your Photography’ and there is the odd ‘Independent Photographer’ supplement in the Web User magazine (of which I’ve only got Part 1 and 3 L). The Independent takes photography very seriously and I expect to see lots of articles and supplements in the future.

Magazines:
Digital Camera Magazine
- I went through many magazines before choosing this one. I thought it was so good that I’m a subscriber. It mainly covers photography techniques and less on reviews or cameras and equipment. But that’s not to say there isn’t much of the latter. A very good all-in-one magazine.
Photography Focus Guides
- From the makers of Digital Camera Magazine, in-depth specials covering (so far) 1: Landscapes, 2: Composition, 3: Portraits, 4: Nikon D50 and 5: Close-ups. I’ve contacted the publisher directly and they say that the magazine will come out here and there and not monthly as it has been, so catch it when you can.
Photoshop Focus Guides
- As with the two mags above this is another Future Publishing publication. This particular one has been going for a while. Similar to the Photography Focus Guides, they don’t come cheap at £7.99 each but you get 130 pages without any adverts. I believe this comes out fairly regularly and covers all aspects of Photoshop.
TimeOut
- Another general mag/paper that has a lot of photography-related stuff in it. It’s an interesting read, well especially if you live in or near London. :-)

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