Photo and Pictures

Here you will find useful resources on photography for those who are beginners in the photo. It may include lighting or composition of the photo. Here you will find links to useful forums where you can ask others about how to move on and learn from others. It will be replenished as and when.
Updated: 2010-05-01

Encyclopidea
Camerapedia – here you can read about cameras. analog as well

Equipment and tools
Use Flickr cameras to see what is most common used.
DOF master – understanding the tools of the trade. Your lenses gives great tables.

PBase Camera Database and Museum – here you can look for different examples of images from different cameras and lenses. Say you want to check out pictures from the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, so you can refresh the page and get a different image each time you refresh the page.

Photographers
Joe McNally – the shining star that will give you inspiration.
Strobist – doesn´t seem to have as much time with his readers anymore. But old articles are a must.
Chase Jarvis – bright and shining star who know social media is important and have changed the wolrd of photo.

General Starter Pages
DSLR Tips – general tips page with videos and other tutorials on everything possible.
DSP Beginner Tips – a good page of links on different pages that are good at Digital Photography School.
DPS offers tips on 21 different things like a new camera owner should know.
Apogee’s Beginners and Young People – Links to articles on the web magazine Apogee for beginners and young.
Neil Turner has a page with advice on photographic techniques in various situations
Beyond Megapixels gives you good tips to start the 100 specifically.
Different pages with tutorials
Ken Rockwell – often gives sane advice, but don´t forget you decide.
Cambridge in Color – a good site with various tutorials in order to understand the basics of photo.
Luminious Landscapes tutorials – good tutorials with mixed technologies.
Olympus photography – a good site with good instructions for various situations.

Learning pages
New! Learn about Flowers, Portrait, Water, Night photography and markets -John Harvey present different types of photography.
100 Tips from Adorama -read about what to do in different situations. Good inspiration.
Photodoto 101 – category of the blog that is instucting you in photo.
Nikondigitutor – gives good advices how to use your camera.
Classroom at Yaniks Photo – here you can find good stuff to learn photo

About various concepts and terminology
Wikipedia has good articles on photography. You will find important concepts well defined, such as aperture, shutter speed and Ansel Adams Zone system, etc..

Various common problems
Ken Rockwell says briefly about how you should think when you expose for snow. Mike MacDonald has a more detailed article.
If I have taken a picture with the wrong white balance, I get a discolored photo, a so-called color cast. You can remove culor cast with XnView.

Photo Composition
New! Learn composition
Simple rules of composition – view a bad video but content is good…
Learn photo composition with pen and paper – learn how to composite your photo.
Get started with photo composition – Mattias W goes through some questions to ask before snap.
You can read about composition and how to use old lenses on new cameras Mattias on Retrocamera.net has written a good articles here about how to get started thinking for better photo composition.
I will translate many good articles from swedish about composition.
Photoinf – a very complete collection of various articles on photographic composition.
Color Pilot for composition – a simple collection of tips on golden ratio and composition.
Petteris Pontifications lessons in Composition.

Lighting
Prophotolife video library – they have an excellent collection of videos in which the declaration and provide tips and simple advice on the particular lighting.
Photo Flex Lighting School – here you will find a lot of different tutorials and knowledge about lighting.

Forums and Communities
Dpreview forums – a great forum acknowledged that repeatedly comes with very useful information on new equipment. Beginner’s Questions is one of part of the forum, but you might also find one for your camera Olympus SLR.
Ipernity – here you’ll find forums and are able to upload your own pictures. The best thing is that is not giving your rights to a multinational company like Google. I have started a group for Photo and Pictures. There are dedicated photographers and a great atmosphere. Share your knowledge and questions.

Manuals and other documentation
Canon Europe has a channel on YouTube with a video manual for the Canon EOS 40D in several parts.
EOS Documentation Project – Here you can find manuals for Canon EOS cameras.