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 Hints and tips by Philip Grosset If you'd like to submit photos for criticism, click here. |
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| This is my personal choice of a few sites that really help beginners to take better photos. |
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| Kodak's Consumer Products (the world's least inspiring title?) is a sales site that offers some useful if basic information in the Tips section, with, as you would expect, some good illustrations. But it is nothing like as useful as their old Taking Great Pictures site used to be. Digital Photography Tips and Techniques is an HP site with the emphasis on selling HP equpment. It's not too easy to find your way around it, but it's very comprehensive and there are some really excellent demos, such as the one in which you move sliders to show the effect of different apertures on focusing, that would be very useful to the beginner. You can also enrol for free online courses. Photo.Net (by Philip Greenspun) offers helpful equipment reviews, and much good advice and useful information. There are also excellent photos, as well as a long list of links. Recommended. Qiang Li's Photo Critique Forum. Just the place if you like looking at other people's photos, as there are some very good ones here, conveniently divided into different subject areas. You can send in your own photos for anyone to comment on. There are also interesting PhotoSIG and Usefilm.com sites offering similar services. BetterPhoto.com is an attractive online photo guide offering tips on technique, a buyer's guide, and recommended books etc. It is well laid out, and could be helpful. PhotographyTips.com (from Canada) offers good advice on a wide range of subjects, and aims to appeal to photographers at all levels. It's attractively laid out, but be prepared to do a lot of clicking if you want to thoroughly explore the site. Typical advice: "Follow the rules until you know when to break them". Steve's excellent DigiCam site provides really detailed reviews of every available camera. Highly recommended.  The American Short Courses site provides much useful information on choosing and using digital cameras (and on editing digital pictures too). The photos included on the Australian A Picture's Worth site aren't always great photos by any means, but they are each accompanied by an explanation of why they mean so much to the photographer. Reading this can be an interesting and moving experience. |
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| For a more comprehensive list of all photo sites, see PhotoLinks that provides over 4700 links. |
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 For information: I've two other websites: my personal guide to St Ives, Cambridgeshire, from which this early evening photo of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, is taken, and Clerical (and Other) Detectives, with pages about over 85 detectives, including Reverend Randollph, Rabbi Small, Sister Fidelma, John Appleby, Michael Gilbert's creations, Father Brown and Charlie Mortdecai. |
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| The Golden Crane Creativity Award is given to sites (including this one) that provide free instructional information on photography and other creative activities. To see the other sites listed, go to: http://www.creativity-portal.com | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| This site was selected as the .net magazine Star Site of the month for July 2001. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| This award for this site was a new one on me. Is it all part of a cunning plot to get us to visit their site? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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