Resources
Links
- Adobe I’m a heavy Photoshop and Lightroom user. You cannot beat their products. Amazing!
- B&H Photo This store, both online and the mega outlet in New York City, has everything under the sun when it comes to photography. They leave no stone unturned.
- Canon Global I’ve been a Canon user for most of my life and can’t say enough about the quality of their products.
- Epson I’ve been using high quality Epson photo printers for about 8 years now. I’m completely sold on their printers, inks and papers. You can’t go wrong here.
- Istockphotos Interested in selling your photographs on an online stock agency. Check this one out.
- Manfrotto Excellent tripods and photographic supports.
- National Association of Photoshop Users A member for three years. The site has a plethora of tools, techniques, discounts, tutorials and more. The discounts alone can save your $99/year membership.
- Nikon My long time best friends have been Nikon users for longer than I have been a Canon user. Most professionals use either Nikon or Canon. It’s for a reason.
- United States Copyright Office Know your photographic intellectual property rights in the United States.
Photo Blogs
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips Lots of great tips every day by Matt Kloskowski.
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom News Sean McCormack Updates us the latest about Adobe Lightroom.
- Adobe Photoshop User Scott Kelby’s blog. I read it every day!
- Joe McNally Internationally acclaimed photographer and photojournalist. Great stuff here.
- John Nack on Adobe John Nack is a Senior Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop. You’ll get a lot of useful bits everyday on this blog.
- Laurie Excell’s Blog Laurie is an excellent wildlife photogpraher. She joins many workshops as an instructor also.
- Moose Peterson’s Blog Great stuff from one of the best wildlife photographers around.
Schools and Workshops
- Digital Landscape Workshop Series Another great workshop series. The instructors are Moose Peterson, Joe McNally, Laurie Excell, and Kevin Dobler.
- Kelby Training Scott Kelby has launched an amazing online tutorial website. Whether paying by the year or monthly you get unlimited access to all of the high quality courses offered here. Fantastic value for the money. Discount for NAPP users.
- Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging The famous photographer George Lepp has put together an incredible school for all skill levels. I’ve taken a workshop course and learned a ton.
- Moose Peterson Photography Workshops Moose is an incredible wildlife photographer. His workshops fill up very fast.
- New York Institute of Photography Complete home study photography course. Interaction with professionals who critique your work. They have been teaching photographers since 1910.
- Nikon School of Photography Courses are offered in a number of cities and variety of dates.
- Rocky Mountain School of Photography For over 20 years, RMSP has taught a variety of workshops, weekends and intensives. They are based out of Missoula, Montana.
- Santa Fe Workshops Workshops in beautiful Santa Fe. They also offer travel workshops around the world.
- The Great American Photography Workshops Fantastic locations and great photographers to help you hone your skills.
Travel
- Best Fares Look for low priced fares here. No tickets issues here as it is a travel search engine.
- Expedia Good options to build complete trips with flights.
- Farecast Great at finding low fares. But it’s real secret is that it predicts future prices. What a great travel research tool!
- Hotels.com Discount accommodations worldwide.
- Kayak Very versatile travel search engine. You can use flexible dates for domestic and international bookings.
- Mobissimo Travel search engine for hundreds of providers.
- Orbitz Hundreds of airlines; 80,000 hotel properties and 13 rental car agencies. Good customer service.
- Priceline Travel planning services with it’s unique “name your price” feature. Being flexible for your travel dates works the best with this service.
- Sherman’s Travel Guide for the best travel deals with a free newsletter of the top bargains for the week.
- Sidestep Travel search engine for airfares, hotesl and rental cars.
- Travel Zoo Lots of sales and specials. Millions of subscribers.
- Travelaxe Hotel bookings for over 20 hotel-type websites. Also allows you to compare prices.
- Travelocity 24-hour support with a flexible search engine.
- TravelWeb Great hotel site in hundreds of cities around the world.
Tutorials
- Adobe Design Tutorials Large selection of tutorials on a variety of products.
- Digital Photography Tutorials This page lists a large selection of online tutorials. Peruse at your leisure.
- Geoff Lawrence Lots and lots of short tutorials on a variety of subjects.
- Photo.net Excellent selection of photography techniques.
- Photoshop User TV Weekly video tutorials from some of the best. You can’t go worong here.
- Planet Photoshop Excellent tutorials from this popular website.
- Short Courses Excellent digital photography tutorials for the beginner photographer
- The Luminous Landscape Large number of tutorials in alphabetical order.