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Photography
I used to shoot a fair amount of black & white and color reversal (slide) for a hobbyist, but when I left the Army in 1993, I lost my access to a dark room and gave up for a while. Of course, I still shot color negative and later digital, but really just travel and family photos. I'm just getting back to it and hoping to shortly start shooting medium format. I've done quite a bit of research lately, so for now, here are some links that I've found particularly useful:
Contents
Useful Stores
Information sites
Lots of great info on these sites (many of these people are artists to but the links here are more for knowledge than inspiration):
- Camerapedia - an open wikia wiki regarding cameras
- Ken Rockwell - a pro who posts lots of information on cameras, photography, and using ebay
- This is particularly interesting on what he scans his slides with
- Composition
- Exposure
- White Balance
- Sharpness
- Camera Adjustments - General discussion
- Photographic Philosophy
- Basics of getting better
- Medium Format
- Ken's Method
- How to Win at eBay - some really good information and hints
- Why your camera doesn't matter
- Why Film
- Film vs. Digital
- though he apparently didn't know that this was meant as humor!
- He recommends Adorama but I find they don't carry substantially any film SLRs or RFs.
- Karen Nakamura's Photoethnography.com - lot's of great info on classic cameras
- Classic Camera Buying Guide
- Equipment Recommendations
- Collecting and Using Classic Cameras - An index of Karen's complete collection
- Matt Denton Photography
- Matt Denton's Classic Camera Collection - lot's of valuable information on classic cameras and some tips on buying and on repair, as well as great links of his own.
- The Luminous Landscape
- ClarkVision.com
- [3]
- Antique & Classic Cameras - lots of information on appraisal, purchase, etc.
Miscellaneous
- [4] table of Argoflex models
Blogs and Fora
- The Online Photographer
- Photo.net
- Interesting Galleries:
- Analog Photography Users Group (APUG)
- Digital Photography Review
- Adobe Forums - useful info even though I use the Gimp
- Gimp vs Photoshop - speaking of the Gimp
- [5] - not sure where to put this so putting it here - nice e-bay preview, I need to figure out how to do that
Artists on the Web
- Ansel Adams
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- David LaChapelle
- Dykinga Photography
- Ian Porteous
- Chase Jarvis - Master of the iPhone
- Arizona Highways
Software
Online Critics
- DeleteMe proving their worth - an unwitting critique of master showing the pointlessness of technical criticism, particularly by amateurs who don't even know art history.
- Great Photographers on the Internet - a satire on internet photo criticism.
