Additional Photographic Resources

We come across a lot of related sites that we've found useful and/or interesting.

In our main Photography information and links page we have tried to keep the focus fairly narrow on specific topics.

This is where we put lots of other photography related items we found useful or just interesting.

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Lighting

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/02/ welcome-to-strobist.html
The Strobist site - lots to learn about using lighting effectively and creatively
http://www.botzilla.com/photo /strobeVolts.html
Flash (strobe) trigger voltages - will your old flash kill your new digital camera?
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/ read.asp?forum=1025&message=7351593
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/ read.asp?forum=1025&message=7490406
Lighting 101, and Lighting 102. from Chuck Gardner
http://www.photo.net/studio/primer
Introduction to studio set-up from Photo.net.
http://lightingmagic.com/topics.htm
Comprehensive guide to lighting
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html
Making a cheap macro studio - cardboard box+ paper
http://www.mvwire.com/2003/12/15/misconceptions-in-lighting/
Some common misconceptions in cinematographic lighting.
http://www.photo.net/learn/studiolighting/
Studio lighting info from Kevin Connery
http://www.theflashcentre.com/
Lots of info from 'The Flash Centre'
http://photonotes.org/articles/eos-flash/
Using flash on Canon EOS cameras - very comprehensive info and discussion
Speedlights.net
Comprehensive reviews and comparisons of hotshoe flashes
Strobist-friendly flashes and triggers
Detailed spreadsheet of manual speedlights, monolights, triggers and portable power solutions
Sylights
Create and share lighting diagrams
Lastolite School of Photography
Video tutorials for Lastolite products
Niel van Niekerk
On-camera flash photography techniques
Photoflex Lighting School
Free tutorials in lighting with Photoflex and other equipment
StudioLighting.net
Learn to light with big flashes
Lighting Essentials
Information and tutorials on lighting for photographers

Batteries

Canon Camera batteries
A guide to the range of batteries and chargers used in Canon EOS DSLR cameras
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/
FAQs and loads of other useful battery info
http://www.steves-digicams.com/nimh_batteries.html
Charger and NiMh battery info from Steve's Digicams
http://www.imaging-resource.com/ACCS/BATTS/BATTS.HTM
Comparisons of different makes from a serious battery tester

Photo Business

Photography Business articles - All of Keith Cooper's articles about differing aspects of the business side of photography
http://www.photographersindex.com /stockprice.htm
Stock price calculator - US$ price estimator
http://www.nppa.org/
National Press Photographers Association
http://digitaljournalist.org/
The Digital Journalist
http://www.danheller.com/truisms.html
Some very pertinent information that Keith points out to the many people who ask him about becoming a professional photographer.

Other aids to getting better pictures

http://www.susdesign.com/sunangle/
Calculate the sun angle for anywhere in the world at any time. An example of its use would be to work out the best time to return to a site for that shot you visualised, but the sun was all wrong. Unfortunately it does not guarantee the sun will actually be out.
http://www.2filter.com/faq/faq.html
All about filters... from filter specialists. Lots of useful info for digital and film use.

Art sites

Try something different! Some varied sites, we enjoyed browsing

http://wwar.com/
Varied collection of Arts related resources
http://www.tate.org.uk /modern/default.htm
Explore the Tate Modern (without the hassle of visiting London :-))
http://www.moma.org/collection /depts/photography/index.html
Photography at Moma

Photo libraries

http://ozimages.com.au/
OzImages Stock Photography

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