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Photographic information and galleries
www.cambridgeincolour.com - excellent site for learning about technical aspects of photography at all levels 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.jamesravilious.com the site devoted to a truly great documentary photographer www.tkimages.co.uk Tillman Kleinhans site. www.davebutcher.net Superb, real, mountain mono. www.thepressphotographersyear.com/competition/results/ www.katebellis.com Has details now of The Gathering. http://www.computer-darkroom.com Ian Lyon's site with lots of Photoshop and Epson printing based reviews, tutorials and essays. http://eyeconphotogroup.users.btopenworld.com/adi_sethna.htm Photos by Adi Sethna http://www.fredmiranda.com/ Has some excellent Photoshop actions available to buy online plus a very well supported forum. http://www.msjphotography.com/index.php/category/photoshop-workbench Good range of Photoshop tutorials and tips
Photographic and Equipment Suppliers
www.metrocolourlab.com Wigan 10 use them for slide processing. www.dscolourlabs.co.uk Wigan 10 use them for most of their award winning prints so they can't be bad! www.7dayshop.com still the cheapest way to buy anything photographic 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 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 http://www.startaphotographybusiness.co.uk Useful site with lots of information on starting your own photographic business. www.darbro.co.uk Alsager based company that offers a great service repairing or replacing PC and Printers - remember to mention Crewe PS!
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.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 |