Photography
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Explanations and Guides
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Basics
- Composition Primer (Apogee Photo) - A guide to positive and negative space
- Jodie Coston's Online Photography Course
- Focal Length and F-Stop Explanation
- A Tedious Explanation of the F-Stop
- Filter options for digital cameras
- Flash: High Speed Shutter vs. Ordinary Flash Sync
- Cambridge in Color Tutorials - Miscellaneous basic tutorials to digital photography
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Business
- Breaking Into the Stock Photography Business (Apogee Photo)
- Sample Model Release Form
- Collecting Invoice Payment
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Photoshop
- Red-Eye Reduction with the Mixer Adjustment Layer
- Selective Desaturization
- Color Calibrating Camera Raw 3 (CreativePro)
- Color Calibrating Camera Raw 3 (Eric Chan)
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Studio
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Weddings
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Image Enhancement and Adjustment
- Andromeda VariFocus - $45 for depth-of-field blurs that are significantly easier to use than Photoshop's built-in tools.
- Reviews at Digital Imaging and PCPhotoReview
- AutoFX Lighting Tools - $300
- Convert to B&W Pro - $100
- Digital Gem Airbrush Pro - $100 for wrinkle-removal and other skin airbrushing tools.
- Flaming Pear plugins - A variety of effects
- Focus Magic - $45 for a very slow (both to use and to execute), specialized sharpening tool. Obsoleted by Smart Sharpen in Photoshop CS2.
- Genuine Fractals - $200 to retain edge and curve sharpness when upsizing images. Now works as a plugin for Photoshop CS2
- HeliconFocus - creates one completely focused image from several partially focused images by combining the focused areas
- Image Align - $130 to remove barrel distortion, pincushion distortion, and make perspective adjustment. Obsoleted by Photoshop CS2.
- Photokit - $50 for simplification of a lot of tone and lighting adjustment, along with simple sharpeners and some advanced black and white conversion, albeit not on the same level of control as Convert to B&W Pro. Most of this can actually be done in Photoshop with a greater level of control, but some of the presets turn out to be often exactly what you need, without spending much time fiddling with exact values. Not needed if you know Photoshop well and can create your own actions.
- Photokit Sharpener - $100 for three-stage simplified sharpening. For second-pass spot-sharpening, this is sometimes more convenient than the tools in Photoshop CS2, but a similar thing can be done with a duplicate sharpening layer or a history brush.
- Stair Interpolation - $20 for theoretically high quality size increases. This doesn't seem to work very well in practice, and nowhere near as well as Genuine Fractals.
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Noise Reduction
- Neat Image
- Noise Ninja — 98% of the quality of Neat Image, at several times the speed.
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Photo Merging/Panorama Tools
- 3DVista Stitcher - 199.95 €, Automatic image stitching. Uses only tif, jpg, tga in 8-bit mode. I have yet to see automatic image stitching work well on any product.
- Hugin - Front end for [PanoTools|http://panotools.sourceforge.net/]
- Tutorial: [Creating linear panoramas with Hugin|http://www.dojoe.net/tutorials/linear-pano/]
- PanoTools
- RealViz Stitcher - $580 for high quality image stitching
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Sensor Cleaning
* Brush Your Sensor: The Pixel Sweeper - A much cheaper alternative, with explanation.
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Camera calibration
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Monitor calibration
- Monitor calibration images for white, black, gamma
- Monitor calibration information at Dry Creek Photo
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Photography Information Websites
- DP Review
- Fred Miranda — lots of user lens reviews
- The Luminous Landscape
- NatureScapes
- Photography Law by Bert P. Krages II
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Photoblogs
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Photography contests
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Printing
- White House Custom Color
- Southern Camera Service — Local to Baton Rouge
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Stock Photography
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Related Topics
- Cameras (and related hardware)
