Digital Photography

Digital Camera Reviews

• Askey's Digicam page, www.dpreview.com.
• Digital Camera Resource Page
• Imaging Resource
• The Luminous Landscape.
• Megapixel.net
• Steve's Digicams

Sites for Sharing Pictures

• flickr, recommended for sharing photos, not for printing photos.
• Kodakgallery.com, good place for posting pictures for friends to request prints.
• Picasa Web Albums
• snapfish.com, another good site for posting pictures for friends to request prints.

Sites of digital pictures

• The American Memory Project.
• The Gigapxl Project, images containing up to 88,000 x 44,000 pixels.
• Photomuse, sample of photographic archirves of International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House.
• Small World, nature photo gallery.
• Unesco's photo bank.
• People:
  • Asya Schween
  • Richard Higgs, uses various Canon cameras.
  • Mike Mander "Sublime Photography"

Books of digital pictures

• anyTimePhoto.
• Blurb.
• myPublisher.com, produce bound book of digital pictures.
• snapfish.com

Advice, Online Courses, Clubs (online)

• Arthur Bleich's 10-week online course on digital photography.
• Carolina's Nature Photographers Association.
• Ken Rockwell.
• Short course on digital photography

Flash photography

• Nikon SB-800 Speedlight resources.
• Flash photography techniques.

Microstock websites

• BigStockPhoto
• fotolia
• iStockphoto
• Shutterstock

Linux tools:

• CompuPic (available for Linux).
• digiAlbum (for Linux)
• DigiKam, for 16-bit photo editing.
• Exiv2, exif data conversion.
• GIMP (Linux).
• GREYCstoration, open source algorithm for denoising, interpolation, resizing.
• ImageMagick for batch processing, JPEG conversion.
• imgconvert, Linux software for creating HTML contact sheet.
• Photogenics (Linux-based graphics and art package).
• UFRaw, raw conversion.

Companies

• B&H Photo.
• Camera Works, Inc. (Durham, NC)
• Canon USA.
• Cokin filters.
• Lensmate
• Nikon USA.
  • Nikon tech support.
• Olympus USA
• OP/Tech Neck straps, carrying cases
• photoVu, maker of 19" wireless LCD display screen for displaying digital pictures from any computer.
• southeasterncamera.com, Carrboro branch.

Canon:

• Canon Consumer USA homepage.
• Forums:
  • Canon Digital Photography Forum.
• Software:
  • Breezebrowser software plus forum for its users.
  • BreezeDownloader, public domain utility for automatically downloading files from Canon cameras.
  • Scott Professional, photo studio software for Canon cameras.
  • YarcPlus, Canon RAW File conversion.

Image Editing Software

• Exifer, program to copy EXIF data from image, also to add this to image.
• Genuine Fractals
• The GIMP
  • GIMP manual
  • Grokking the Gimp by Carey Bunks (online book, also available in hardcover).
  • Using Multiple Exposures in Photography
• Paint Shop Pro
• PhotoGenetics (based on genetic algorithms)
• Picture Window Pro
• Ultimate Paint

Photoshop Related Sites

• Beckham tutorials
• Ron Bigelow tutorials.
• Computer Darkroom.
• Photoshop Tutorial (for photos).
• Espression Graphics Photoshop tutorials.
• Graphic Design: network of sites about graphics design.
• GrafX Design.
• Instant Photoshop tutorial.
• PC Resources for Photoshop
• Perspective correction with Photoshop.
• Photoshop Tips.
• Phong Photoshop tutorials.
• Photoshop Books.
• Qarbon Viewlet Library (tutorials on PS).
• Scanning Tips.
• Sharpening:
  • "Out of Gamut: (Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know about Sharpening in Photoshop but Were Afraid to Ask"
  • Cliffshade tips on sharpening
  • The ultimate sharpening technique.
• Ultimate Photoshop

Viewing, Organizing, Sharing, Archiving Software

• EasyShare of Kodak
• GNU Photo
• Irfan View

• ACDSee shareware
• Fototime picture viewer, organizer (free).
• Picasa.
  • Hello, Picassa IM software for sharing pictures.
• Photoleap, free software to efficiently email pictures to people who also use this software.
• PIE: Picture Information Extractor
• QImage: Image viewing/printing software
• SimpleViewer, free software to display images via Flash interface. See thefrenchguy.com as an example.
• Singapore, free software to create online albums.
• Thumbs Plus picture organizer and editor
• Ulead PhotoImpact
• Viewslide: freeware program for automatic slide show of pics on a CD.

Peripherals

• San Disk
• SterlingTek.com, good place to buy inexpensive Li batteries for digital cameras.
• Thomas Distributing (especially rechargeable batteries).

Scanning of slides and negatives:

• Photographic Specialties (ezslides.com).
• ScanMyPhotos.com

Miscellaneous

• Digiscoping.
• Hot pixel test, free utility program.
• Hyper-Scan: company that will scan various photos, documents into CD format.
• Inksite.com: source of inks, inkjet photo papers.
• Mosaic photographs
• photo.net, general site about photograpy.
• PhotographyTips.com
• Photosynth, Microsoft software to produce virtual environment out of photo collections.
• Popular Photography, web site for the magazine.