LinksWEB ADDRESSES
Photographic information and galleries
www.cleaningdigitalcameras.com
www.dpreview.com (best camera review site on the Net)
www.photomuse.org a developing site featuring classic photography
http://dirckhalstead.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm You would think that LIFE magazine would have the best web info about Eisenstaedt but this is far better.
www.ephotozine.com news, reviews, gallery – a great web photomagazine
www.beckhamdigital.co.uk the website of one of the best Photoshop tutors
www.luminous-landscape.com tests, advice, tutorials, sporadic, brilliant!
http://www.outbackphoto.com another excellent digital imaging site with tutorials and articles on RAW workflow, inkjet printing etc.
www.nikonimaging.com/global/products/d2x/ Nikon site Nikon photags.
www.jamesravilious.com the site devoted to a truly great documentary photographer
www.justmono.co.uk Alan Brown’s site – unchecked at time of press.
www.artemis-photography.co.uk Chris Widdall’s site
www.tkimages.co.uk Tillman Kleinhans site.
www.davebutcher.net Superb, real, mountain mono.
www.thepressphotographersyear.com/competition/results/
www.kens-photos.com/ Ken Hewitt’s site
www.katebellis.com Has details now of The Gathering.
http://www.radiantvista.com/ Nicely put together site with lots of excellent tutorials and daily photo critiques (Broadband recommended)
http://www.computer-darkroom.com Ian Lyon's site with lots of Photoshop and Epson printing based reviews, tutorials and essays.
http://www.thelightsright.com Recently updated site with many excellent in-depth digital imaging tutorials and free actions and scripts for Photoshop (the Professional Sharpening Toolkit is a superb set of free three-pass sharpening scripts)
http://eyeconphotogroup.users.btopenworld.com/adi_sethna.htm Photos by Adi Sethna
www.mersey-gateway.org/chambrehardman for entry to the Chambré-Hardman archive.
http://www.northscape.co.uk/ A collection of stunning landscape photographs plus a range of weekend workshops in the Peak District, Lake District and Yorkshire Coast.
http://www.tonypioli.me.uk Tony Pioli’s site – a vast range of images from this award winning photographer
http://www.pixeltopicture.co.uk Sigrun Tollerton's website for her digital photography courses
http://www.fredmiranda.com/ Has some excellent Photoshop actions available to buy online plus a very well supported forum.
Photographic Suppliers
www.metrocolourlab.com Wigan 10 use them for slide processing.
www.7dayshop.com still the cheapest way to buy anything photographic
www.mx2.co.uk another excellent online source of cheap computer consumables (paper, ink, etc.)
www.warehouseexpress.com voted best online photographic retailer for the last 4 years. Excellent range of everything photographic, good prices and superb service.
www.loxleycolour.com Barry Beckham gets his prints done here.
www.gripping-stuff.com – the double sided sticky stuff for mounting prints
www.fujilab.co.uk for good slide film deals
http://microquiz.net Where to get digitized slides done
www.firstcall-photographic.co.uk Where you can buy all the twiddly bits for toning etc that nobody stocks anymore!
www.peak-imaging.com The colour lab which John Royle uses.
http://www.proamimaging.com Commercial printers who have a good reputation and only charge £1 per 16" x 12" print
www.bbjimports.com UK distributors for the Lightsphere Dome system
www.abetterbouncecard.com Instructions on making or buying a flash bounce card
www.dembflashdiffusers.com suppliers of Demb flash diffusers
www.joedembphotography.com/flipit The Flip-it! adjustable flash diffuser
Useful Software
www.adobe.com Home of all things Adobe including Photoshop and Lightroom (digital workflow and RAW conversion software)
www.gt-photography.com (program for mat cutting calculations)
www.irfanview.com the best general purpose image manipulator - free.
www.wnsoft.com for Pictures to Exe
www.pixmantec.com They have recently sold their RawShooter RAW converter to Adobe who intend to incorporate it into the next releases of Photoshop and Lightroom . The free RawShooter Essentials is sill available for download but not for much longer!
www.neatimage.com The noise reduction program that Adi Sethna uses.
www.picturecode.com –for Noise Ninja, another top flight noise reduction program.
www.imagenomic.com Commercial noise reduction, portrait retouching and film grain Photoshop plugins.
www.kubotaworkshops.com Commercial Photoshop Actions
www.niksoftware.com Professional Photoshop filter and sharpening products
www.photosforlife.ca/scripts Suppliers of the Autoloader, Sloppy Borders and Proofmaker commercial Photoshop Scripts
www.thelittlephotoshop.co.uk Commercial site selling Photoshop Tutorials and Actions
www.optikvervelabs.com Home of the Free virtualPhotographer Photoshop plugin that allows you to simulate a wide range of traditional photographic effects
www.russellbrown.com website of Adobe's decidedly eccentric Sr. Creative Director, with a range of excellent free Photoshop Scripts, Actions and Tutorials
www.breezesys.com Home of the BreezeBrowser commercial RAW conversion programme
www.bibblelabs.com Producers of the Bibble Professional RAW Workflow and Conversion software
www.phaseone.com Produce the Capture1One Raw conversion software
www.apple.com/aperture Apple's Aperture digital image processing suite
Photographic Associations and Societies
www.lcpu.org now a great store of information and opinion
www.rps.org the Royal Photographic Society
www.postalphotoclub.org.uk a postal portfolio network
www.digitalweddingforum.com Does what it says on the tin!
www.bipp.com/ British Institute of Professional Photography
www.swpp.co.uk/ Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers and British Professional Photographers Associates
www.thempa.com The Master Photographers Association
Places to Go and Things to Do
www.audlem.org The 2005 Calor Cheshire Village of the Year and Defra "Building Community Life" national winner. Beautifully situated on the Shropshire Union canal with a host of lively events all year round (CPS member Simon Cotter contributed a number of images to the village's website).
http://www.wherecanwego.com/ A very useful site that details up and coming events around any locality you enter