Best Photography sites on the Net

[Joan]

I'm sure that many of you know web pages that you regularly visit because they hold particularly interesting information about photography technique or products, because they are particularly well structured, etc...

I would greatly appreciate that you share them. Internet is a huge information source, but many times it is hard (or quite time consuming) to separate the really interesting sites from the more publicity oriented ones, from the biased ones or from the ones simply not worth to spend your time there.

Here you have 2 of my favourites:

- Page with plenty of tips and advices : http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/

- The best place I have found so far for real in-depth and professional photography products reviews and comparisons: http://www.dpreview.com/

Have fun !

[Colin Southern]

Cambridge in Colour

www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums

[Chris]

I'm sure that many of you know web pages that you regularly visit because they hold particularly interesting information about photography technique or products, because they are particularly well structured, etc...

I would greatly appreciate that you share them. Internet is a huge information source, but many times it is hard (or quite time consuming) to separate the really interesting sites from the more publicity oriented ones, from the biased ones or from the ones simply not worth to spend your time there.

Here you have 2 of my favourites:

- Page with plenty of tips and advices : http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/

- The best place I have found so far for real in-depth and professional photography products reviews and comparisons: http://www.dpreview.com/

Have fun !

Really surprised you did not include Cambridge. Cambridge and Talk Photography are my go to sites.

[ajohnw]

I'd 2nd Colin's comment on CinC especially in regard to the extensive tutorials. Photo secrets is just a money pit for some one.

Have to agree about dpreview. They also test some lenses and give mtf plots. The forum can be useful for sorting camera settings that don't work out for some reason quickly as well.

John
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[Shadowman]

This site obviously. I also like:

http://bythom.com/

..and I know this one will create an uproar but I like the Ken Rockwell site, especially his Top Nikon Lenses list.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/dx-dream-team.htm

[chauncey]

To add to the above, I like http://www.luminous-landscape.com/index.shtml for in depth essays,
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/index.php for all things Canon,
and http://1x.com/about for pure eye candy.

What I find interesting is that posting an image on various sites will garner totally different
C&C results...ya gotta filter out the chaff.

[Venser]

Only going to mention websites not mentioned.

For photo challenges, I like the following:
www.pwocontests.com - Weekly themed challenge where anything goes in terms of editing.

Daily musings:
www.petapixel.com - Sometimes there's a good article here.
http://www.43rumors.com/ - The rumour mill for m43 systems.
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/ - A mirrorless centric website.

Photos:
www.1x.com - Some of the photos are really good, others leave me asking why? There's a definite slant towards certain styles and/or editing techniques, but there's still a lot of gems here.
http://www.deviantart.com/ - Most are far outside the realm of photography, but there's still some good stuff here.

[Joan]

Really surprised you did not include Cambridge. Cambridge and Talk Photography are my go to sites.

I did not want to offend the intelligence of the people reading my post including the same site where my message was posted ;-).

But yes, you are absolutely right CiC ranks as one of my favorite web sites for photography info. Great tutorials, great forum and always great help from people always willing to share their knowledge with anybody from anywhere in the world.

[Glenn NK]

http://www.naturescapes.net/forums/index.php

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php

[Andrew1]

Many good ones mentioned. I'd add Strobist and CreativeLive.

[davidedric]

And if you are a Lightroom user, lightroomforums.net

[Richard Lundberg]

LightStalking, openphotographicsociety.org, uglyhedgehog.com, openphotograhyforums.com, fredmiranda.com, and a couple I can't think of right now

[lukaswerth]

http://www.dpug.org
for advanced techniques, as is
http://www.alternativephotography.com
for alternative processes,
and
http://www.photozone.de/
for lens tests ans such like.

Lukas

[tao2]

http://www.martindalecenter.com/

http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/technical/rrs.html

http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/...gnal.to.noise/

http://www.basepath.com/index-real.php

http://www.digitalblackandwhite.co.u...tography-tips/

http://pansfilmcameras.blogspot.co.u...-super.html#!/

http://www.falklumo.com/lumolabs/articles/equivalence/

http://www.imatest.com/docs/sharpness/

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Talk:Oplenflex

http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/h...ne-system.html

Several of the others are already mentioned. Ah think that Martindale's is not just an excellent photography site but one of the best repositories of knowledge, on one site, on the 'net

PS...one for a laugh...http://www.wimp.com/photographymachine/

[jcuknz]

Thankyou Boab for the postscript

[Joan]

Another good one: http://photographylife.com/

[Doctor Doog]

I would also add

http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/

[nkpliangjk58]

nice job!