Website Links
Online Shops:
- Camera Gear
- www.bhphotovideo.com – good camera store
- www.adorama.com – another great camera store
- www.keh.com – Good camera store lots of used
- Online Developers & Printers:
- www.atlex.com – good prices on ink and paper
- www.ezprints.com – another good printer with a good pano printer.
- www.mpix.com – great printer
- www.vistaprint.com – good prices on business cards and the like.
- www.whcc.com – Another great printer. Will press print custom cards in low quantities.
- www.bayphoto.com – they do a great job, standard shipping just $1.50.
- www.elcocolor.com/poster_special.htm – fine poster sized prints, great customer service and fast delivery
- www.meridianpro.com – The software is easy to use, the prints are fantastic and the prints are usually shipped within 24 hours.
- Books and Other Printed Material:
- www.amherstmedia.com – good source for photography books
- The Nikon Compendium
- Nikon System Handbook
- All Things Else:
- www.bocaphoto.com – great source for all the little Nikon things
- www.buydig.com/shop/home.aspx – usually the lowest retail prices by a reputable company
- www.cigarcityarts.com – great custom covers for printers
- www.daproducts.com – excellent LCD protectors
- www.gadgetinfinity.com/ – sells the Cactus wireless flash trigger and more
- haodascreen.com/default.aspx – Haoda – Fu focusing screen
- www.kirkphoto.com – Lots of camera accessories.
- www.mpex.com/ – midwest – photo exchange, reasonably priced lighting equipment and more
- www.m-rock.com – Camera backpacks.
- www.whibal.com/ sellers of the whi-bal white balance reference card
- www.academicsuperstore.com – Great prices on software if you have a child in school, or if you are an educator.
Online Photo Storage:
- www.pbase.com – pbase; you can search on lenses and camera models
- www.photobucket.com – photobucket
- www.smugmug.com – great photo storage site with protection
- www.zenfolio.com – zenfolio
Actions, Tips & Tutorials:
- www.earthboundlight.com – I especially like Bob’s weekly tips, and his archives are fun to go through… plus he shoots Nikon!
- strobist.blogspot.com – Always some invaluable lessons on lighting, great links from this site, and a bit of humor and sarcasm mixed in… how can you go wrong???
- www.flashflavor.com – A little something for the wedding/aspiring wedding photogs kind of based on the external lighting concepts of the Strobist site.
- blog.nikonians.org – Love the daily updates here, as well as the podcasts… very nicely done!
- www.bythom.com – Always a good, informative read.
- www.photoshopusertv.com – Shouldn’t need to say more than the title!
- www.epaperpress.com/psphoto/index.html – Lots of good info and some actions.
- atncentral.com – Tons of actions. Been around for a while.
- www.tutorialized.com – Thousands of tutorials, on all sorts of imaging software
- www.luminous-landscape.com – Photography and photoshop tutorials relating to landscape photography
- thelightsrightstudio.com/tutorials-pdf.htm – Photoshop techniques
- www.naturfotograf.com/index2.html – Bjorn Rørslett’s site with older lens reviews as well as new lenses and camera reviews
- www.drycreekphoto.com – Explanation of printer profiles and how to use as well as a database of commercial printer profiles of Costco printers and custom profiles
- www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html – Online depth of field calculator
- photoshoptutorials.ws – photoshop tutorials
- www.photoshopquicktips.com – photoshop quicktips
- digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com
- www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com
- www.lightroomkillertips.com
- www.nikonlinks.com – link site.
- http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography…ikon/index.php – lots of good info about almost all Nikon models.
- www.panoguide.com – Great source of panorama information
- www.digimods.co.ukindex2.htm – Don’t like the look of your car? Then change it.
- www.outdooreyes.com/photosection20.php3 – great actions
- www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm – Multiple photography and photoshop tutorials.
- www.layersmagazine.com
- www.ashotapart.com/tutorials.html – A site that is good for a beginning/amateur DSLR shutterbug.
- http://planetneil.com/ – Talks about one flash photography and for a flash beginner it really helps one to understand flashes.
- porg.4t.com/0-9.html – Great place, loads of everything. and well organized. Everything is alphabetical.
Rentals:
- www.lensprotogo.com
- www.rentglass.com
- www.ziplens.com
- www.lensrentals.com
- www.borrowlenses.com
- www.glassandgear.com
Nature sites:
- Birds:
- www.whatbird.com – It has a very good section for keying out birds.
- www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds – It has everything from bird attraction to tips for photographing
- Wildflowers:
- http://www.skyways.org/orgs/fordco/w…/a-ff/byb.html – Fred’s Flower Finder; good explanation of terms and a simple key for basic flowers
- www.mywildflowers.com/ – Very easy to use. Has several search parameters to help you narrow down what wildflower it is.
- www.birdwatchradio.com As the name implies, It’s all about birds.