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PHOTOGRAPHY LINKS
Disclaimer
The following links are for sites and resources that I have found to be
interesting, useful, or informative with regard to the subject of photography.
Keep in mind the following things:
- I do not host or maintain these sites, and am not responsible for their content (Exceptions to the contrary will be noted)
- With #1 being said, I have not got any links to content that I would consider NSFW (Not Safe for Work)
- I do not link to sites that I consider to contain excessive advertisement (popups, popunders, etc), spyware, or malware.
- I tend to browse the web with JavaScript and other plugins turned off (Get FireFox and the NoScript addon to make your browsing life MUCH better), so it's possible that I may have missed something that applies to #2 or #3. Please re-read #1.
- If you believe that any of my links violate the spirit of #2 or #3 above, are broken, or otherwise inappropriate, please let me know
Links
Reputable Photo Hosting Sites:
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www.flickr.com
Flickr is the main photo hosting site I use. This says something about how much I like them, seeing as how I pay a lot of money to host my own web server, and have plenty of space and bandwidth available if I so choose.
There are several reasons I went with them:
- $25.00/year "pro" account gets you unlimited hosting space, bandwidth, and no ads on your photo pages
- The FlickrUploadr tool they provide is lightweight, easy to use, and intuitive. You just drag & drop files onto it, choose the sets/collections your photos will belong to (optional), set private/public, safety level, and even provide captions and tags if desired.
- One word: geotagging
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www.smugmug.com
A well-regarded photo hosting site. It's moer expensive than flickr, but has some neat options to allow the high-level pro accounts make money from selling prints and downloads. I didn't go with them simply because I've decided that I'm NOT interested in getting back into the rat-race of professional/semi-professional photography.
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picasa.google.com
Another excellent photo sharing site hosted by the (mostly) non-evil Google. I really wanted to use them for my albums, but found that I didn't like the fact that even paid accounts have storage limits. Their free account is really superb for folke who don't plan on having more than a few gigs of photos online, and their picasa software is a decent workflow management tool (which I don't use anymroe since I started using LightRoom).
Reviews and How-Tos:
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www.kenrockwell.com
Ken Rockwell has got an amazing collection of reviews and advice in the "Everything I know about photography" section of his site. Personally, I agree with about 80% of his opinions, though I understand his reasoning behind most of the remaining 20%.
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www.lostamerica.com
Troy Paiva's Lost America site has some of the most amazing night photography shots I've ever seen. His web site is more of a photo gallery, but his technique page is a must-read for nighttime shutterbugs.
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