Photographers, Cameras and Technique:

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. - Imogen Cunningham

"A Guide to Using Your Digital Camera: A Guide To Great Photographs" from Dennis Curtin at Shortcourses.com This is a great site and his books are excellent.

Proper Care and Maintennce of DSLR and Smartphone Cameras from The Snugg.com suggested by Terry Kelly.

This is an excellent Lens Buying Guide from BestBuy suggested by Veronica Taylor.

Wikipedia article about "Bayer Filters."

Flickr, the world's greatest photo sharing site. My photos at Flickr are here.
The Library of Congress photos on Flickr

Photo.net - "Photo.net is an online community for photographers to connect and discuss photography, explore galleries, share photographs, and learn more about the art of photography.

"Luminous Landscape - "the web's most comprehensive site devoted to the art of landscape, nature and documentary photography using digital as well as traditional image processing techniques."
"Introduction to Composition" by Alain Briot

Photojojo - a free weekly newsletter with interesting ideas and articles.

ShootSmarter.com - a site with a lot of good shooting info for pros and amateurs.

Strobist - A blog all about off camera flash

A little movie about photographer Joe McNally.

Rob Galbraith has a great site at Digital Photo Insights. He maintains a database about memory cards that is very useful.

Digital Photo Review has excellent and detailed camera reviews and Discussion Forums for reader participation.

Imaging Resource - Site with good reviews and price comparisons.

photo lovecat - "Helping photographers and small business owners achieve greater success."

Norrkross Morph X - a fun , free program for morphing one image into another.

Photojojo - "Panographies Panoramas on Steroids" - very interesting twist on combining multiple photos into panoramas

Photojojo - "The Amazing $1 Pocket-Ready Tripod Trick"

HiViz - High speed visual imaging site with galleries, tutorials, projects and more. How to captue ware drop and popping balloon images.

Flashes of Inspiration - MIT Museum: The work of Harold Edgerton

Building Mood With Still Life Scenes - A Web Photo School Lesson about lighting a still life that is pretty good for amateur photogs.

Forensic Photoshop - "An on-going discussion of the forensic uses of Adobe's Photoshop. Forensic Photoshop includes tips, how-tos, step-by-steps, and advanced techniques for using Photoshop in a forensic workflow."

Peter Turnley I was very impressed with his talk. Here's the link to his pictures.

Assignment 5 Resources:
Panorama:
Create a panorama with Photomerge - a tutorial
Photomerge movie at "Video Workshop" from Adobe
Photomerge Tutorial from the above video
Digital Photo School Photomerge tutorial

Panographics "Panorama on Steroids" tutorial>

Panography on Flickr

HDR - Wikipedia article

HDR Tutorial by Colin Smith

HDR video

PopPhoto Article about Photoshop CS3 HDR

American Society of Media Photographers

Mag My Pic Put yourself on a magazine cover.

Chase Jarvis TECH: Packing Photography Gear" A couple of movies on what equipment to take when you travel, how to pack it and dealing with Customs.

- Faux Painted Edges - A very nice tutorial on how to create edge effects with the brush tool and a layer maks from The Graphic Reporter site.

Iris At The Back Door.
Resources and References

If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough. - Robert Capa

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Photoshop, Lightroom and Computer Resources:

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ~Ansel Adams

Wikipedia article about "Pixels."

Short Course Book on Sensors, Pixels and Image Sizes by Dennis Curtin

Jelly Belly Art Gallery

"Understanding Digital Sensors," a tutorial by Sean McHugh at "Cambridge in Color."

Photoshop for Photographers at ePaperPress.com

Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips - Video tutorials about Lightroom.

Earthbound Light - "Nature photography from the Pacific Northwest and beyond by Bob Johnson"

Peachpit Press - A lot of free Photoshop and Lightroom resource materials.

Photoshop Reference Guide hosted by Matt Kloskowski

The Russell Brown Show - A great site by Photoshop evangelist, Russell Brown, with lots of good tutorials on Photoshop.

CreativePro.Com - Photoshop tutorials

PanosFX.com - Photoshop effects, actions and tutorials.

Action Central - "Devoted to the exchange of Photoshop actions among users as a service to the Image editing community"

virtualPhotographer - A free Photoshop plug-in for Windows users that creates a wide variety of photographic effects.

Photoshop Express - A Photoshop online image editor and gallery. It's in beta and it's free. Sign up for an account.

Good Magazines and their websites: