General

For general interest photography, be sure to check out these blogs.

1. All Day I Dream About Photography: This blog has great tips, featured photographers, and more.
2. The Imaging Buffet: Get digital photo tips, reviews, news, interviews, and more on this blog.
3. Photoinduced: Photoinduced features galleries, events, news, lots of other great photography stuff.
4. Camera Dojo: Camera Dojo is full of lots of great information, including tips, tutorials, and reviews.
5. Photocritic: Photocritic offers an overall excellent photography blog, with tips, reviews, news, insight, and more.
6. Adventures in Digital Photography: This blog offers insights, advice, and other valuable photography resources.
7. PhotographyBLOG: PhotographyBLOG discusses news, opinions, reviews, and a photographic community.
8. The Decisive Moment: Check out this blog to find photography news, reviews, and more.
9. Beyond Megapixels: Beyond Megapixels offers photography that’s easy to understand.
10. A Photo Editor: In this blog, you’ll find photographer profiles, industry news, and more.
11. Confessions of a Photographer: This blog highlights useful business information, philosophy, tips, and beyond.

Resources

Get the help you need through these blogs that highlight useful resources for photographers.

1. Photo Lovecat: In Photo Lovecat, you’ll find great resources for building a professional photography business.
2. Photojojo: Photojojo always offers fresh and fun photography resources and ideas.
3. Cool Photo Ideas: Visit this blog for lots of great photography ideas and resources.
4. PresetsHeaven: Check out this blog to get free presets for Lightroom.
5. Pay It Forward: Read the Pay it Forward blog to find useful resources for photographers, including freebies, interviews, and tips.
6. Daily Tips to Improve Your Photography: Use this blog to get resources and tips that will help you improve your photos.

News

Stay up to date on the latest in photography with the help of these blogs.

1. State of the Art: This blog from Popular Photography weighs in on current events in photography.
2. PDNPulse: The editors of Photo District News write this blog that offers news, reviews, and more.
3. Photo News Today: On Photo News Today, you’ll find an excellent resource for imaging news online.
4. The Online Photographer: Visit The Online Photographer to find photography news, reviews, photographer profiles, and more.

Photoblogs

If you’re in search of pure eye candy, these blogs will get you your fix.

1. PDN Photo of the Day: PDN selects an excellent photo to reveal on this blog every day.
2. Shutter Sisters: Check out this collaborative blog to find photography from women.
3. The Big Picture: Boston.com’s photoblog is full of photos from current events.
4. Blog.Photoblogs: Here you’ll find stunning images from Photoblog users.

Photo Genres

These blogs cater to a specific genre of photography.

1. A Little News: In this blog, you’ll find useful advice and information for photojournalists.
2. Fashion Photography Blog: Read the Fashion Photography Blog to learn more about fashion photography and get great resources.
3. Microstock Diaries: Learn how to make money from microstock photography by reading this blog.
4. Flying With Fish: Get resources and useful information for traveling as a photographer from this blog.
5. Fine Art Photoblog: On this blog, you’ll get to see fine art photography as well as news in the industry.
6. Wed Shooter: Follow this blog to learn about the wedding photography industry.
7. Rocktographers: Visit the Rocktographers blog to find fun and interesting photos of wedding and engagement rings.
8. Don’t Box Us In: This blog celebrates unique and extraordinary wedding photography.
9. The Wedding Photography Project: Get great resources and news for wedding photography from this blog.
10. Endless Years: Endless Years offers photography advice for boomers and their families.
11. Epic Edits: Check out this blog to get access to a great resource for hobbyists.

Tips & Learning

Improve your photography with the tips and learning resources found on these blogs.

1. This Week in Photography: In this blog you’ll find the latest news and regularly featured tips and inspiration.
2. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips: Get awesome tutorials, tips, shortcuts and more through this blog.
3. Your Photo Tips: Your Photo Tips offers lots of great information on digital photography tips, techniques, and tutorials.
4. PictureCorrect: Check out this blog for lots of great tips and news for digital photography.
5. Photo Attorney: On Carolyn Wright’s blog, you’ll find rights alerts, legal resources, and more.
6. Digital Photography School: On this blog, you’ll find lots of educational resources for photography.
7. Pioneer Woman Photography: Ree Drummond’s blog photography has become so popular that she’s devoted an entire blog to teaching her techniques to fans.
8. Words: Irrational: On this blog, you’ll get learning resources for techniques, processing, and printing, as well as a community of photographers to share with.
9. Yanik’s Photo School: Yanik’s Photo School offers reviews, tips, tutorials, and other resources for learning photography.
10. Assignment Construct: This blog will show you everything that goes into setting up the perfect shot.
11. Cheapshooter: Cheapshooter will help you learn how to do photography on a budget.
12. Fotohacker: These digital photography geeks offer lots of guidance for making your photos better.
13. DIY Photography: You’ll learn about photography and studio lighting through this blog.
14. Lighting Essentials: The Lighting Essentials blog is all about photographic lighting, including tools and DIY projects.
15. Strobist: Strobist is the definitive blog for lighting techniques, DIY projects, and more.
16. Lighting Mods: Check out the Lighting Mods blog to learn about DIY lighting and other photography tips.
17. dpmac: Read this blog to learn how to make Nikon and Mac products function in your photographic workflow.
18. PSD Learning: Get Photoshop learning resources from this blog.
19. Photography Mentor: Get great resources and learning from this blog behind an online photography school and social network.
20. Tao of Photography: Andy Ilachinski’s blog discusses the creative process, science, art, and more related to photography.

Photographer Profiles

Get a look into the lives and work of active photographers through these blogs.

1. F-Stop Beyond: Get a look into the lives, work, and business of successful photographers.
2. 7 Photography Questions: On this blog, you’ll get answers to questions asked of top photographers, and find out how you can improve your own photographs.
3. Ask the Photographer: Learn about specific photographers, find tips, and more through this blog.
4. Flickr Blog: Get insight into Flickr as well as photography through this blog.
5. Blog on Photoblogs: This blog is a great resource for photographers using blogs.

Gear

Get product reviews, alerts and lots more from these blogs devoted to photography gear.

1. OK1000 Pentax Blog: If you’re a fan of Pentax gear, be sure to check out this blog.
2. 1001 Noisy Cameras: On this blog, you’ll get reviews, news, and more for all types of photography gear.
3. Canon Blogger: Canon Blogger is full of tips, tutorials, articles, and other great Canon photography resources.
4. Engadget: Read rumors, reviews, and more on cameras and other gear from this gadget blog.
5. ShotAddict: ShotAddict offers reviews on a variety of consumer and professional level cameras, lenses, and accessories.
6. Canon Rumors: You can find out the latest information about Canon gear through this blog.
7. Digital Camera Resource Page: Get unbiased digital camera reviews from this blog.
8. Photography Review: Visit this blog to get camera reviews and join an active photography community.
9. Digital Photography Review: In this blog you’ll find the latest reviews and previews of digital cameras.
10. Gizmodo: In this gadget guide, you’ll learn about lots of photo gear and accessories.
11. Camera Deals: Save money on camera equipment by checking out the deals on this blog.
12. DPhoto Journal: This blog primarily reports on and reviews cameras and accessories, but also offers tips and photography news.
13. Nikon Rumors: Get the inside scoop on Nikon developments on this blog.
14. Nikonians: Visit the Nikonians blog to find out the latest about this camera brand’s developments.

Business

Get advice for working as a professional photographer from these photo business blogs.

1. Photopreneur: Get great information about making money from your photos through this blog.
2. Photo Business News and Forum: Check out this blog to learn about the business of photography.
3. Pro Photo Life: This seasoned professional offers lots of great advice for professionals, amateurs, and hobbyists.
4. Strategy Avenue: Read this blog to find excellent advice for running your photography business.
5. BananasEDU: BananasEDU offers relevant and useful advice for professional photographers.

Projects, Movements & Communities

These blogs highlight interesting photo projects, communities, and more.

1. Roadside Families: This project works to get photographers and their families in front of the camera.
2. A Day in the Life: Members of this community take photos of their entire day and share them on the blog.
3. Photo Assignment: Practice your photography by following the assignments in this blog.
4. Photowalking: Check out this blog to get inspired to take a walk with your camera.
5. Trash the Dress: Check out this blog to see brides trashing their wedding dresses.
6. One Photo Project: Participants in this project take one photo with a camera and pass it on.

Photoshop

Get a crash course in Photoshop and Lightroom with the help of these bloggers.

1. Photoshop Insider: Check out Scott Kelby’s blog to get an education in Photoshop.
2. LightroomNews: This blog offers lots of great news and information about Lightroom.
3. Lightroom Queen Blog: Victoria Bamptom’s blog offers troubleshooting, news, and more for Lightroom.
4. Photoshop 101: Visit Photoshop 101 to get inspiration, tutorials, and more for Photoshop.
5. Inside Lightroom: Read this blog, and you’ll find presets, tips, and more.
6. PhotoshopNews: Get the latest news about Adobe’s Photoshop products through this blog.
7. Lightroom Journal: Get news, tips, and advice from the source in this blog written by the Lightroom team.
8. Photoshop Support: On Photoshop Support, you’ll get tutorials, tools, and resources for Photoshop.
9. Lightroom Galleries: Visit this blog to get access to Lightroom web gallery templates.
10. PSHero: PSHero is full of tutorials, downloads, and more.
11. O’Reilly Inside Lightroom: O’Reilly’s blog will help you use Lightroom and Photoshop more efficiently.
12. Photoshop Roadmap: This blog will help you with Photoshop, offering tutorials, brushes, plugins, and more.
13. Photoshop Disasters: See some terrible Photoshop creations on this blog.
14. PSDTUTS: Get spoonfed Photoshop tutorials throughout this blog.

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Photography Hardware
A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras
A Guide to Understanding Digital Cameras (Part I) (slightly technical)
A Guide to Understanding Digital Cameras (Part II) (slightly technical)
Camera Image Sensors (slightly technical)

Lighting
Lighting 101
Lighting 101 (PDF format)
Understanding Flash Sync-Speed
Using Fill Flash
Better Digital Photos In Low Light Conditions Without Using A Flash
Video Lighting Guides
Lighting Schemes Explained (slightly technical)

Image Processing
School of Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide
Managing Metadata (Part II)
Managing Metadata (Part II)
Your Complete Guide to Adobe Bridge
Your Complete Guide to Adobe Bridge (PDF format)
Photoshop Non-Destructive Techniques
Camera Raw, Bridge, or Lightroom?
The Beginner’s Guide to Lightroom and Photoshop (PDF format)
Photoshop 101 Series Video Tutorials
Photoshop User TV
Photoshop Killer Tips

Online Learning
Kelby Training
Lynda

Photoblogging Services/Resources
Expressions
Shutter Chance
Pixelpost
Word Press

The Basics of Exposure

• Learning about Exposure – The Exposure Triangle
• Introduction to ISO in Digital Photography
• Introduction to Shutter Speed in Digital Photography
• Introduction to Aperture in Digital Photography
• Understanding Exposure – Book Review

Learning to Use Digital Camera Settings and Features

• How to Control Aperture and Shutter Speed on an Entry Level Point and Shoot Digital Camera
• Aperture and Shutter Priority Modes
• Introduction to White Balance
• Introduction to Digital Camera Modes
• Understanding Histograms
• Prefocus to Combat Shutter Lag
• Introduction to EXIF Data
• Automatic Exposure Bracketing (AEB)

Handling and Caring for a Digital Camera

• How to Hold a Digital Camera
• Shutter Release Technique
• How to Avoid a Dirty DSLR Image Sensor
• How to Clean a DSLR Lens
• 7 Digital Camera Predators and How to Keep them at Bay

Other Beginner Photography Tutorials and Tips

• 100 Things I’ve Learned About Photography
• 10 Questions to Ask When Taking a Digital Photo
• 11 Tips for Beginner Photographers
• Using Fill Flash
• How to Get Better Photos in Low Light Without Using a Flash
• How to Take Sharp Digital Images
• How to Use Focal Lock
• Shooting with an In Camera Flash
• 13 Lessons to Teach Your Child about Photography

Common Digital Photography Problems and Questions Answered

• 7 Strategies for Avoiding Flash Blow Out
• Macro Photography Tips for Point and Shoot Compact Digital Cameras
• How to Get Shallow Depth of Field in Your Digital Photos
• Crop Factor Explained
• Complete Digital Photography – Book Review
• The Digital Photography Book – Book Review

Nice List of Great Photoshop Lists.

70 horror, blood and gore Photoshop tutorials and brushes

100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web

A Complete Guide to Digital Makeover in Photoshop

Best of Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Hand Picked Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop Masters

Photoshop Buttons Tutorials

100 Artistic Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop Support brushes guide

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1. Market A Book
Creating your own ebook these days is very easy. You don’t have to be Hemingway and you don’t have to produce something the length of War And Peace. People will be quite happy to download sixty-odd pages explaining how to do one thing, whether that’s photograph birds, buy a camera or improve their workflow.

Set up a group. Give some practical tips that let people try out your niche. And keep reminding them where they can download your ebook if they want to become experts like you.

2. Sell Your Photos.
It does happen occasionally that a buyer will contact a photographer on Flickr about using an image for a commercial purpose. But it doesn’t happen often and the image has to be pretty exceptional. If you’re going to sell your images on Flickr then, you’ll have to be proactive. Look for organizations or businesses that will need the sort of photos that you sell and invite them to look at your photostream.

So if you like taking pictures of your local soccer team, contact a soccer magazine and tell them that you have a bunch of images ready for them to use. Keep the prices relatively low and with some careful marketing, you should be able to sell a few pictures to a select market.

3. Offer Microstock Freebies
One of the difficulties of selling photos on Flickr is that there are so many images available for free. But that also means that there’s no shortage of potential buyers browsing the sites, many of whom would be prepared to pay a buck or three if it cut their search for quality.

Post a few old microstock images in your photostream, and place a link on your profile to others on your favorite microstock site. Let the microstock buyers browsing Flickr see what you have to offer and where they can pick it up.

4. Create Products With Flickr’s Partners
Flickr itself is pretty simple. The real creativity now is coming from people like MOO, Zazzle and Blurb. Don’t turn your nose up at these easy ways to move your photos onto cards, t-shirts, cups and books. More people buy coffee mugs every day than digital photos.

5. Give Your Portfolio Some Extra Reach
There’s always something a little strange about seeing someone’s wedding photos on Flickr. They’re the sort of images that are only interesting to the couple and their families — and to other couples thinking of getting married and wondering what to expect.

Putting your best pictures on Flickr is no replacement for a professional-looking online portfolio. But it can bring people into that portfolio… and that portfolio can win you jobs.

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Photo Sharing

Flickr is certainly one the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. It helps people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. Flickr gets photos into and out of the system in as many ways as possible: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users’ home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their photos. It enables new ways of organizing photos. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your photos – not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. With Flickr you can create prints, calling cards, photo-books, slideshow-DVDs, postage stamps, and much more.

Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you locate and organize all the photos on your computer, edit and add effects to your photos, share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web. It is fast, easy and free.

SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations on the web.

Zooomr is a site where you can share, search, store, sort and sell your photos online.

Snappages is a collection of online tools designed to make your life easier. You can quickly organize and share your life with friends and family, and do it all online. This service is free.

Zoom and Go is about inspiring travelers about where to go, what to see, what to do and where to stay based on the experiences of other travelers or on the recommendations from locals around the world. It is a place where people submit pictures, reviews. Zoom and Go members put themselves on video as guides to the world for the places they live or the places they’ve visited.

Photorgy -is the online photo site . You can use it to post your photos, upload entire folders, link any photo from your blog or MySpace, get photos in a shared album, and more.

Clickfriends makes it easy to upload, organize and share your photos online. Create your free account and join the photo-sharing fun. It offers to create unlimited albums, upload you photos to each album, add titles, caption and description to your photos.

DPhoto lets you easily share your photos with family and friends in your own online gallery, while also creating a secure backup of all your photos. A free account allows you to store 100 photos. For $7 per month you can store an unlimited number of photos.

Free Photo Hosting

Photobucket is the most popular site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos, and graphics. Your free Photobucket account can store thousands of photos and hours of video. Photobucket also offers free tools for making slide shows of photos, videos with music. You can share your photos and videos with friends by email, IM and mobile phone.

ImageShack is an intuitive and easy-to-use free media hosting service. It can be used to upload images, flash files, and movies, and share them with friends using any imaginable means.

SmugMug is a photo uploader, editor, and community portal all in one. It keeps 4 backup copies of each photo in 3 states. Retrieve them anytime. It offers unlimited storage. Your friends can see your photos without registering, and without spam. No Ads.

TheImageHosting allows to upload multiple pictures at one time, link your photos in web sites, email, blogs, register an account to manage your files, create online photo galleries for free, and more.

ImageVenue is a free image hosting solution. It is designed for you to share digital pictures with friends, post images on message and bulletin boards and blogs. You can also hot link images from your personal website or eBay auctions.

Online Photo Editors

Fauxto – image editing application which allows you to free-transform beautiful, anti-aliased text within a layer, and then apply a multi-colored radial gradient with a variable focal point in another. You’ll be quite surprised with what you can do within Fauxto.

SnipShot is a browser based image editor. It enables to save pictures as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF. It has basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize, and basic image adjustments like contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpness and hue. There is unlimited undo and redo.

MyImager – is free online image editor. Upload or call images from anywhere on the web and edit them freely with the the dozens of tools and filters that myImager.com offers.

Phixr allows you to edit your pictures and directly upload them to Flickr, Fotopic, Livejournal, Photobucket, Fotolog.com, and others.
With Pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser. You can apply functions like saturation, colorfx, blur and sharpen, brightness and contrast.

Pixenate is online photo editing software that you can use stand-alone or integrate into an existing photo-sharing or photo-printing website. If you provide a photo-based web service, Pixenate can significantly enhance the ’stickiness’ of your website by offering an easy-to-use integrated photo editor that doesn’t require your users to download and install additional software.

OnlinePhotoTool allows you to edit and save your images, screenshots and photos online. The following functions are possible: resize, crop, add text, sharpen, rotate, flip, colour balance, saturation, levels, paint, add icons, sepia, black and white.

With XMG Image you can host, edit, organize, and share your images with ease. XMG Image gives you the ability to manipulate your images in any way possible. Do simple functions like, crop, rotate, resize, and constrain images with 1-click. More advanced features include, advanced effects, image enhancing and more.

Photo Mixing and Slide Shows

Slide is the largest personal media network in the world, reaching more than 134 million unique global viewers. It helps people express themselves and tell stories through personalized photos and videos created on Slide.com and viewed anywhere on the web or desktop.

RockYou offers free services, including slide show creation, photo hosting, photo enhancement and more. RockYou is free.

Mixercast allows to create professional multimedia experiences by mixing your images, video, and sound easily with our unique templates and share across the web in one click.

Flektor hosts your photos, videos, and music. You can make customized slide shows, polls, text, or direct and edit your own movie with hundreds of effects and next generation glitter graphics all online. You can record or even broadcast yourself live on a webcam. When you’re done, post them on MySpace profile layout and comments, Facebook, Blogger, Digg, Photobucket…or any other website of your choice.

Mobile

With Shozu you can get videos, photos and music on and off your phone. ShoZu is free to download. You can do things on the move. No waiting for stuff to get to your phone.

Radar send you picture to Radar as a picture message or email, and your chosen friends can instantly see and comment upon it from any phone or PC.

Fotochatter allows to share mobile pictures with your friends, get images from your friends right on your phone, send and receive photo comments and messages, save any photo to your phone as wallpaper. It’s free and it works on any carrier in any country.

SnapZone take a snap on your mobile, send it to Snapzone and instantly share it with friends and family. You can manage your mobile photos online and share them from a personalized web address: (e.g. www.snapzone.com/yourname). Register FREE and start sharing your photos on the web.

Photo Printing and Book Creation

Moo can help you turn your virtual contents into excellent print products. You can make note cards and mini cards from your photos and design. These can be used for promotional materials or business cards.

Use Shutterfly for free to organize and edit your pictures. You can get 2 Web addresses to showcase your pictures. Save with Shutterfly Studio -4×6 prints for 12¢ each.

Fotki provides free unlimited photo hosting for sites, blogs, auctions and emails. Enjoy the best prices: 9 cent pro quality prints! Besides, you can participate in photo contests.

Snapfish -is a leading online photo service with more than 40 million members and one billion unique photos stored online. It enables the members to share, print and store their most important photo memories at the lowest prices – online or off. Snapfish offers professionally-developed digital camera prints as low as 10¢, film developing for just $2.99 per roll, free online photo sharing, unlimited online photo storage, free editing tools and software, wireless imaging services, and more than 80 personalized photo products, ranging from calendars, mugs and mouse pads, to boxer shorts, and dog leashes.

Photography Blogs

DPreview is a place where you can find all the latest digital photography and imaging news, reviews of the latest digital cameras and accessories, the most active discussion forums, a large selection of sample galleries, a digital camera database and buyers guide and the most comprehensive database of digital camera features and specifications.

Thomas Hawk – Zooomr’s Thomas Hawk on photography, Zooomr, Flickr and general tech news.

PhotoCritic – an excellent DIY photography Web blog.

Chromasia a blog where you can find photographs in a wide range of subjects and topics in a unique and contemporary style: scenes from the Fylde Coast (in and around Blackpool), items washed up on the shore, portraits of children and adults, a range of abstract things and scenes, and a variety of other topics.

Stuck In Customs – blog by one of the greatest HDR photographers on the net.

Black and White Photography is a great photo blog focusing on black and white photos.

Shutterlog - a photo blog designed and fed by Stéphane Alaimo.

Photo Search

PicSearch – image search with special options – you can choose to search only black and white or color photos.

YotoFoto indexes images in the public domain or available for free usage under various forms of copy left licensing.

Google Image Search remains one of the best ways to find images of any kind on the web.

Pixsy – is an image search engine that provides PixsyPower, a custom video and photo search for your own site.

EveryStockPhoto is a search engine for creative commons photos. It is aimed to be a community for designers, developers, photographers and other media publishers who want better, easier access to license-specific media on the web.

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