Comments on: Where do you Learn most about Digital Photography?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:10:58 +0000

Books:
The Photographer’s Eye – Michael Freeman
Exploring the Light – Rick Sammon
Magazines:
Digital Camera Magazine (UK)
PhotoPlus magazine (UK)
Popular Photography (US)
Websites:
digital-photgraphy-school.com
I probably have 20-25 photo sites saved in my favourites, but with the exception of flikr.com, DPS is the site that I go to over and over again. Comprehensive enough for me to reconsider actually enrolling in an online photography programme.

By: Bev

Bev — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:40:38 +0000

I learned the most from a couple classes with Bryan Peterson and other instructors at his school Perfect Picture School of Photography – ppsop.net – I loved the on-line forum with the other students and having to complete (and get reviewed) on weekly assignments. Also use this site, dpreview, and Bryan Peterson and Scott Kelby books and various other websites as well but much less frequently. The learning is so quick with digital! It rocks!

By: JohnG

JohnG — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:20:20 +0000

I’ve learned from this website and some books like Shaw’s and Peterson’s. The most important one is experimenting taking pictures yourself.

By: Tahoe Photographer

Tahoe Photographer — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:47:48 +0000

I learned on the job as a ski hill photographer. They gave me a few pointers and sent me up to the scenic overlook and said shoot. Through trial and error I perfected my photography techniques.

By: Tudor Mateescu

Tudor Mateescu — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:17:57 +0000

I work with Lau at her blog, helping her with the design and promotion.

I’m not to much into photography but I’ve got some passion.

I must recognize I’ve learned a lot from http://www.photoaxe.com/

Some of my photographs I have made after I learned from Lau are posted on my blog here (it’s a Romania blog and the link goes to the photography category).

By: Lau

Lau — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:16:39 +0000

One more thing: when I said – surfed for â€œbest imagesâ€ – I was referring at things like Nation Geographic. I really love to get inspired by such pictures.

By: Lau

Lau — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:12:21 +0000

First of all, I have to admit I learned allot by… pretending to photograph. Really. I had no camera but I teach my eye to see creatively.
Then I got a camera and I preferred to rather discover what it does than reading in some book ( i applied the “learning from mistakes” principle). I let others critic my pics during I surfed for “best images”.

Currently, I got accepted in a photography forum that has strong rules about who posts there: a 4 very good photos candidature is needed. Why am I mentioning this? Because I believe it matters allot in what kind of photography group someone is. It’s important to look at the best and talk with the best. As higher as you look, as higher as you get.

As for links, this is a good one: http://www.morguefile.com/

By: Peter Wine

Peter Wine — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:38:19 +0000

I’ve learned the most from http://www.Strobist.com.

David Hobby gives lots of examples from when he was a full-time photographer at the Baltimore Sun (he’s now on a one-year sabatical to maintain the web site and produce a DVD.)

Although the lessons can be used with any off-camera lighting (which is the focus of the site,) it is targeted mainly at those of us who carry around the flash units most often used on-camera, such as the Nikon SB-800 (down to the SB-24) or the Canon hot-shoe flash series.

The amount of great light that he is able to produce with ’speedlights’ is incredible.

If you use a camera, you owe it to yourself (and those who will look at your pictures) to visit Strobist.com.

I visit lots of other places as well, but Strobist is one that I visit every day (along with the Flickr discussion and photo group.)

By: Shaz

Shaz — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:46:36 +0000

Well i learn About Photography through Wesite,I do used to do alot of googling untill i found some really good site to get my Photography more sharp then before,earlier ,i did not even knew how to handle a camera, but i can say Cheese to anyone to capture him!! Thank you very much for providing this wonderful help!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:14:00 +0000

Mainly by learning from my mistakes, but every now and again i use a few select sites. These are my favorite ones.
http://www.fredmiranda.com – Good reviews
http://www.your-digital-photography.com – Good For Amateurs