| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Digital Camera World | A useful set of tutorials |
| Cambridge in Colour | Useful tutorials here for beginners on how the camera works and other basics, as well as a few more advanced items. |
| Digital Photography School | Lots of tips, tutorials and techniques. |
| Photography Mad | More tips, tutorials, etc. |
| Improve Photography | Photo basics, kit, etc. |
| Tutsplus | Tutorials and articles on photography. |
| 2015 one project per week | 52 photo tutorials, one per week through 2015, already covering water droplets and smoke art. By Digital Camera World. |
| Cheat Sheet Roundup | A handy set of 19 photo cheat sheets on all kinds of useful topics. |
| Digital Photography School | Lots of tips and tutorials for photography and editing. |
| The Bastard's Book of Photography | A rather good web book on taking photographs. |
| Exposure Guide | Blog, basics, tips, editing. Lots of very helpful stuff. |
| 100 Tips | 100 Tips from a Professional Photographer |
| NG Photo Tips | National Geographic's pages on photo tips. |
| Beginner's mistakes | 10 Embarrassing Mistakes I Made As A Beginner Photographer (at Expert Photography) |
| 101 portrait tips | Lots of useful tips for photographing people. |
| Lightstalking | Splendid site with lots of tips ('Improve your photography with us'). |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Lee Filters resources | How tos, etc. including Xposure magazine from the maker of premium filters. |
| DIY Photography tutorials | Lots of tutorials from diyphotography.net. |
| The Slanted Lens | Lots of excellent tutorials here. |
| Photo Argus Tips | Many pages of tips and ideas. |
| Cooph techniques | Techniques page from the 'The Cooperative of Photography'. Lots of clever stuff. |
| Improve Photography | All kinds of useful articles. |
| Exposure Guide | Knowledgeable blog covering all kinds of useful stuff. |
| Extreme Macro | Online guide for macro photography. Includes useful page on focus stacking.. |
| Photons to Photos | All you wanted to know about noise in your camera. Start with Read Noise in DNs. Watch this video on how to use it. |
| Web page | Notes |
|---|---|
| Food Photography tips | Useful set of clever tips for photographing food in a Guardian article. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Painting Analysis | Leeds U Faculty of Arts online course about understanding paintings. Great for learning more about composition. |
| Composition in Painting | Four lessons about art composition. |
| Design Principles | Some useful tips about composition and design. |
| Art fundamentals | The seven elements of composition in art. |
| 10 Rules of photo composition | From Digital Camera World. |
| 10 top photo composition rules | More on composition. |
| 18 Composition Rules | Even more rules. Useful. |
| Photo composition articles | A useful collection. |
| Top 10 compositions tips | Some different and useful ones. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Flickr | Zillions of pics from photographers around the world. Much excellent stuff here. |
| 500px | The 'premier photography community' with lots of photos and discussions. |
| Talk Photography | Put your images in the site here to get criticism from other photographers. |
| National Geographic | Source of much stunning international photography. |
| The Guardian | Articles and examples from the national newspaper. |
| The Telegraph | Articles and examples from another UK broadsheet. |
| Dazed | Creative site with lots of recent creative stuff. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Marutt | Camera club talk on printing, plus cheaper ink systems. |
| Orbit Print | Print on various things (good for presents), including posters and canvas (good value). Based in Merthyr (go pick up your prints and save the postage). |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Amateur Photography | The classic UK enthusiasts' rag. |
| Photo Answers | Various |
| Digital Photo | Cameras, techniques, etc. |
| Digital Photographer | Galleries, tips, etc. |
| Digital Camera World | Tips, tutorials, reviews, etc. |
| Nature Photo | Online magazine about the outdoors. |
| Photo Plus | Tutorials, editing, kit, etc. |
| Seesaw | Online photo magazine, mostly showing photographs. |
| Advanced Photographer | Photography and kit for the experienced person. |
| British Journal of Photography | Professional highbrow magazine. |
| Photo Professional | Articles, interviews, kit, etc. Aimed ad professionals. |
| Professional Photographer | Articles aimed at professionals. |
| World Photography Organisation | Includes nice on-screen magazine. |
| Cooph | The Cooperative of Photography |
| Photography News | Click on 'Photography News' for free magazine. Other mags are pay-for. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Timeline Events | 'Where heritage and photography come together'. A place that runs days for photographing old stuff like trains, planes, etc. |
| Dragonfly Imaging | See the photography courses run here by Keith Sharples, our own local expert. |
| Curiosity Studio | Studio for hire! In the Rhondda Valley. Props, lighting kit, etc. Good value. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Raw Therapee | Oddly-named but comprehensive open software RAW viewer and editor |
| The Gimp | The best free alternative to Photoshop. |
| Fusion | Decent free HDR software. |
| Luminance | Alternative free HDR software. |
| PicMonkey | An easy, free, online editor. Useful at least in the internet cafe on holiday. |
| Magic Lantern | For Canon SLRs only. Extends the Canon firmware to do all sorts of additional tricks, such as intervalometer, motion detection, advanced bracketing, advanced focus, etc. Also enhances video modes. |
| Reikan Focal | Autofocus fine calibration and other stuff for higher-end cameras. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Triggersmart | Trigger system to capture movement. Full set of controller, sensors, etc. UK company. |
| Miops | Camera and flash system for timed and sound/light triggered photography. 18 different modes with remote operation from mobile phone. |
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