Here are some useful links you may like to browse, but don’t forget to come back soon. If any members would like to suggest additions please contact the webmaster.
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Categories:
| General & Technical |
| Images |
| Photographic Societies and Associations |
| Software |
| Suppliers and Retailers |
| Tutorials and guides |
General & Technical
- A camera insurance comparison site
- Advice on starting a photography business
- DP Review- Great independent equipment reviews
- Ephotozine is one of the best free on-line photo magazines
- H Lehmann- Stoke’s camera repair specialist
- L&CPU Focal Points Newsletter The L&CPU has relaunched its focal points Newsletter as an e-document. Register for it here
- Mountain Goat Specialised Coach Tours of Yorkshire and the Lake District Quality coach tours of the Lake District by the Mountain Goat company
- NSPCC advice for photographing children
- Paul Sawer’s Wildlife Photography Workshops
- See the Kodak Gallery at Bradford’s Science and Media Museum
- Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet Advice on resizing images for social media
- The 10 most famous Photographers according to Picture Correct.
Images
- 121 Clicks has many outstanding images to inspire any photographer
- 1x.com is a gallery of outstanding images.
- 25 Iconic photographs by old masters
- 500px-Home of Creative and Professional Images
- 7 decades of The Observer’s classic photographs
- Admire the work of contemporary photographers on Lens Culture’s website
- Arthur Morris – Birds as Art
- Charlie Waite’s Classic Landscape Photographs
- Christine Widdall’s Website
- CPS Member Carl Sumner’s website has some wonderful images
- CPS Member Peter Robinson’s Website is here
- CPS Member Stephen Coyne’s website has some fascinating travel photographs
- CPS member Wallace Baxter’s website displays some of his best images CPS photographer of the year, Wallace Baxter has an excellent website
- James Ravilious – Great Documentary Photographer
- Joe Cornish’s Landscape Photography
- Magnum’s Martin Parr’s website
- See over a million photos in Juzaphoto’s gallery
- See some stunning images on the National Geographic’s website
- See the world through the eyes of loeildelaphotographie from France
- Sir Don McCullin talks about his landscape photography
- The Guardian is famed for it’s support of good photography
- The stunning Pano Awards
Photographic Societies and Associations
- See what Yorkshire’s Photographic Union are up to.
- See what’s popular with our colleagues at the Photographic Society of America
- Society of International Wildlife and Nature Photographers
- The Global Photographic Union has world wide members
- The Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union’s website
- The Photographic Alliance of Great Britian’s Website
- The Royal Photographic Society is just a click away.
- Wigan 10’s members create some imaginative images
- Your favourite Photographic Society’s website
Software
- Adobe’s extensive website starts here……
- ADP Luminosity Mask actions for PhotoShop Get more details from your highlights and shadows.
- Audacity – A free cross platform audio package
- Ephotozine’s 38 top software applications for photographers
- Faststone Image Viewer is a light weight image viewer It's a freeware product as well!
- Fujifilm RAW File converter EX 3.0 powered by SILKYPIX” Ian McNab has found this RAW file converter for FujiFIlm cameras.
- FujiFilm Raw Studio program You need to connect your Fuji to your device to use this software.
- Pictures to Exe is excellent software for creating Audio Visual Sequences Pictures to Exe is excellent software for creating Audio Visual Sequences
- Serif’s Affinity is a well regarded budget photo editor.
- Skylum’s well liked photo editor is now available for Windows
- Snapseed is a great Google app for photo editing on a phone or tablet Get it from Google Play
- Topaz Labs Creative software
Suppliers and Retailers
- 7 Day Shop for budget photo accessories
- Canon fans can visit them here.
- Clifton Cameras are worth considering for photo hardware
- Daniel Cook’s used equipment search tool Find used equipment from over 60 UK retailers.
- Darbro- An Alsager based computer store
- Do you want to know more about Fujifilm cameras?
- DSC Colour Labs for good value printing
- First Call Photographic for film processing
- Jays Computer Shop can be found in Nantwich Road, Crewe
- Loxey Photo Processing Lab.
- MPB supply quality used photographic equipment
- Nikon’s European website
- Olympus cameras are still going strong
- Peak Imaging- a quality print processor.
- PJ Camera Repairs are in Porthill, Newcastle-under-Lyme
- See the Panasonic Lumix camera range here
- Visit Sony’s home here.
- WEX- Highly regarded photographic supplier
Tutorials and guides
- 100 Basic Photographic Tutorials from Envato
- 50 tips for beginners from Coupon Follow
- Adobe Lightroom Training videos Learn about Lightroom
- Adorama You Tube Photography Tutorials Learn from hunderds of videos on how to photograph nearly everything!
- An excellent on-line Photo School for learning Photography
- Clik-Trip website for on-line tutorials and workshops. They also offer photo holidays
- Duade Paton’s videos on Wildlife photography
- Expert Photography Great advice for photography students
- For some great advice and links on Architecture photography see Brian Enright’s links Architecture Photography links
- Good general photographic advice is given on the Photography Life website.
- Jan Wegener’s Wildlife photography videos
- Join the Photographers Academy for a wealth of photographic advice.
- Landscape photographer Tom Mackie YouTube Tutorials The master landscape photographer describes his technique in stunniing locations.
- Laura Shoe’s Lightroom Tutorials
- Learn photography from professional photographer Karl Taylor
- Paul Compton’s Landscape Vlogs Follow ex-CPS member Paul Compton around the UK on his landscape adventures.
- Paul Graber’s LRPS Mono Photography
- PixImperfect’s Photoshop retouching videos PixImperfect shows you some specialised techniques to enhance your portraits in PhotoShop.
- Ross McKelvey’s 100 photo critique
- Sony World Photography Awards book
- Steve Arnold’s Processing Landscapes tutorials. See how to make your landscapes pop in these quick and precise videos.
- The Governments on-line IT training courses Not photography, but it all helps!
- Wildlife Photographer Andy Rouse wildlife Video Andy Rouse explains how he captures his amazing wildlife photographs.
- You Tube’s SLR Lounge as many Photographic tutorials to view.