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Photography

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Cameras

  • Only Major brand names are represented.
  • ☼ - makers of digital cameras.
  • ◙ - makers of 35mm and/or point and shoot cameras.
  • ӝ - makers of digital SLR cameras.

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Digital Photography

  1. Digital Camera Information & News
    Specific information, prices, features and news.
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  2. General Sites & Portals :
  3. Printing Online
    Specific information, links to sites for developing digital photographs online.
    • Agfa
      Provides access to Agfa ‘ebox’ stores.
    • Big W
      Online printing, but you have to pick them up at a store.
    • Dell
      Printing and also an online album.
    • DotPhoto
      A ‘comprehensive photo printing and image/sound archiving services on the Internet - at prices you’ll enjoy.’
    • Extrafilm
      Developing and online storage.
    • Fujicolor Australia
    • Harvey Norman
      Online printing, sent to you, or pick up at a local Harvey Norman store. Also an online album.
    • Kodak Australia, Welcome to
      Information plus digital printing.
    • Make9
      Through Agfa Net. Printing plus information.
    • Photolab.com.au
      Online prints as well as other products.
    • Ted’s
      New South Wales based, quite cheap.
  4. Tips & Tricks
    Including specific information, links to developing digital photography skills.

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Photo Albums

  1. General Sites & Portals :
    • Caring for Albums
      A Kodak presentation telling how to protect original photo albums and photographs.
    • Webware
      CNet’s search for personal web ware for albums.
    • Photo Book Creation :
      • Album Printer
        Download their software, create the photo album of your dreams using the templates provided, then send it over the internet for printing in the chosen style. Fee-based.
      • Momento
        Similar in format and features to Album Printer. Check the samples available. Becomes a hardcover photo book when completed. Fee-based.
  2. Online Photo Albums
    Specific information and links to online photo albums/storage.
    • Care2.com Photo Albums
      Free for up to 250 photos.
    • Epson Photo Centre
      Free gallery, plus information.
    • Flickr
      Store, search, sort and share your photos.
    • Hello™
      ‘Hello is a new way to look at pictures with friends and family.’ Software linked with Picasa and the Google family.
    • ImageEvent
      ‘Provider[s] of online photo, video, and document sharing’.
    • Imira
      Online picture album service.
    • Kodak EasyShare Gallery [previously Ofoto]
      Free albums plus online tools.
    • Our Media
      ‘We provide Free storage and Free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software.’ Just be willing to share them with everyone.
    • PBase Photo Database
      Fee-based, other tools
    • Photobucket
      ‘Photobucket provides Free video and photo sharing. Easily host and link your images and videos to social networks, auction sites, blogs, and message boards.’
    • Picture Trail
    • Snapfish, Welcome to
      Gallery plus basic tools.
    • Shutterfly
    • Tabblo
      ‘With professionally designed templates and powerful editing tools to compose online photo albums, or tabblos.’ Free to register.
    • Web-a-photo
      Free 40mb of storage, Fee-based to 5gb.

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Photographers

  1. General Sites & Portals :
    • Discover Nikon
      ‘A showcase of the region’s finest photographers.’
    • Image Alchemy
      A virtual gallery from a range of photographers. From the sublime to the ‘ordinary’. Artist profiles, send them as photocards, other information. Australian.
    • Luminous Landscape, The
      ‘[Welcome to] the web’s most comprehensive site devoted to the art of landscape, nature and documentary photography using traditional as well as digital techniques. You will find instructive articles, product reviews, travel and technical discussions, inspiring portfolios, and a Discussion Forum.’
      Fabulous.
    • Masters of Photography
      Some of the best American photographers. You can buy prints of the photographic studies.
    • World Wide Panorama, The
      ‘More than 180 photographers in 40 countries around the world celebrated the Equinox by creating VR panoramas. This site showcases the results of their efforts.’ Part of the Geoimages Project covering a range of images ‘that are useful in teaching geography’.
    • ZoneZero [Portfolio Collections]
  2. Specific Photographers and Their Works
    Photographers, displays of work, information. Some annotated with areas of interest.

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Photographs & Collections

  1. Australian Photographs
    Links to online Australian collections.
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  2. General Sites & Portals :
    • NYPL Picture Collection Online, The
      ‘A collection of 30 000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. Images of New York City, Costume, Design, American History and other subjects.’
    • Smithsonian Photography Initiative
      ‘Beyond offering more information about where to find photography collections throughout the Smithsonian, our website aims to be an educational tool, serving anyone who wishes to study, explore, and enjoy photographs of many kinds.’
    • Stock.xchng® VI
      ‘A site where creative people [can] exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into this massive community you see now - there are over 1 000 000 registered users and more than 250 000 photos online !’
    • WebPix
      Portfolios of photographs from amateurs and professionals, colour and black and white. Reviews of the latest cameras and techniques. Free registration required.
  3. Royalty-Free Photographs :
    • Free :
      • Free Foto
        Images which can be downloaded for non-commercial use.
      • GlobeXplorer
        Access Free photographs of places on earth taken from space [Sydney included].
      • Yotophoto
        A search engine for Free-use stock photographs. More than 100 000 images.
    • Fee-Based :
      • 123rf
        ‘123rf offers the latest royalty free stock photography on a subscription basis. For a single fee, you get access to tens of thousands of High Resolution Royalty Free images.’
      • Fotosearch Stock Photography
        Royalty free photographs in a range of areas [more than 50]. Most for sale, but some ‘freebies’.
      • Inmagine
        ‘World’s Largest Royalty-Free Collection. Search 1 500 000 images.’
      • Public Domain Images
        Free images as well as a bigger range of Fee-based images.
      • Stock Photos
        The sort of photos used in the papers and news.
      • TRI-SCAN Royalty-Free Images
  4. Special Interest Collections :
    • Astronomy Pictures
      A new picture each day with an apparently never ending supply from NASA.
    • Denver Public Library Photography Collection
      Photographs of the American West and all connected with it.
    • Molecular Expressions
      Colour microscopy examples in addition to the other aspects. The Gallery has a collection from ice cream to integrated circuits.
    • NASA Photo Gallery
      Pictures of space and everything to do with it. Both range and quality.
    • News Photos
      Photos that are used in the news in Australia.
    • new !Photo Galleries
      From National Geographic. Access a range of different galleries from Animals to Adventure, History to Landscapes. Link to other aspects.
    • Small World [Nikon’s]
      ‘The Nikon International Small World Competition first began in 1974 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope. Since then, Small World has become a leading showcase for photomicrographers from the widest array of scientific disciplines.’
    • Pictures of The Day :
    • Waterfall Images
      ‘Old Beeg’s’ links. Links to some of the great world waterfalls including Australia. Special links to Niagara, Iguassu and Victoria. The remainder are grouped under countries.

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Tutorials

  1. General Sites & Portals :
    • Activity Centre
      A range of activities from HP which include activities with photographs.
    • Creative Park
      Photo gallery and a range of activities related to the use of photos.
    • Cropping Photos :
      • Crop Your Photos
        Similar to the site below, but geared specifically for Apple computer systems.
      • Cropping Photos
        “Every Picture Tells a Story”. A very clearly defined and well presented introduction to effective cropping of photographs.
    • Enjoy !
      From Canon. ‘This program teaches how fun and easy a digital SLR is. Take photography to a higher plane, and experience the true joy of photography.’ Several sections including a terminology.
    • Epson CreativeZone
      Similar to Creative Park [above].
    • Fodors Tips
      More than 100 tips, especially travel photos.
    • Kodak
      Find advice on all aspects of photography from the Australian branch.
    • Kodak Photo Hints
      Find how to improve photographs. This site targets travel photography. Sub-titled ‘Tips & Projects Centre’.
    • Photo Interactive
      A Thinkquest site. Provides a primer covering all Essentials from cameras through to printing photos. Taking better photos is covered in the ‘Virtual Photography’ section.
    • PhotoNotes.org
      ‘A Free public information resource for the Internet photographic community’. Includes articles, a dictionary [of film and digital photography], reviews, lookups, a forum and more.
    • Photography Camera Use and Care …
      [Taking and Developing Photos]
      Provides links to information on most aspects of how take better photographs, even the development stage.
    • Photography.com
      Advice from Photography.com.
    • SoYouWanna take Great Photographs ?
      The absolute, basic essentials in taking reasonable photographs.
    • The Unwritten
      [Saving Your Photo Stories for the Future]
      Another Thinkquest site. A totally different aspect of photography. Rather than photos in a box or album with no information, this looks at ways you can develop ‘photo stories’ that hold on to the past - for the future.
    • Tips for Better Pictures
      Tips and ideas to help you take better photographs.
  2. Specific Sites :
    • Better Photos
      How to take better photographs without buying more equipment or having someone do it for you.
    • Fix Photos with Image Editing Software
      From Microsoft, but not necessarily restricted to their programs.
    • HDR : High Dynamic Range Photography
      ‘Enable[s] photographers to record a greater range of tonal detail than a given camera could capture in a single photo.’ Works with Photoshop CS2.
    • Photo 101
      From ‘Photography Review’.
    • Photography Courses
      [From School of Photography.com]
      Provides access to courses for people at all levels. Fee-based but one, ‘Night Photography’, is provided Free. There is a range of pages covering photographic techniques.
    • SLR Photography Online
      A Thinkquest site. Introductory information as well as extending this for when you are more expert. Goes beyond the ‘simply functional’, looking at various artistic methods.
  3. Tutorials for Digital Cameras :

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General Information

  1. General Sites & Portals :
    • 42nd Street Photo
      A blog on photography from a photography store in New York. Could be interesting if you are wanting to check comments on cameras.
    • Antique & Classic Camera
      All about antique and early cameras, some people who used them and the history linked to them.
    • Australian Centre for Photography
      All photo oriented work covered. Links to artists, galleries, courses and other organisations.
    • Australian Photography
      ‘Australia’s leading online network for the photographic industry. Search for photographers, digital cameras, camera stores, digital/photo labs, camera clubs and ‘used’ camera/computer & darkroom equipment !’
    • Imaging Resource
      Cameras, scanners and printers. Information, reviews, getting better pictures, getting started and general news.
    • Photo Links
      Links to every aspect of photography.
  2. Magazines & Journals :
    • Digital Photography Review
      ‘Find all the latest in digital photography and imaging news, reviews of the latest digital cameras and accessories, the most active discussion forums, a large selection of sample images, a digital camera buyers guide, side-by-side comparisons and the most comprehensive database of digital camera features and specifications.’
    • PCPhoto Magazine
      Articles, reviews, glossary, interactive sections, product information and more.
    • PopPhoto
      Online home of the magazine. Has multiple sections from tests through to mentoring. Access a Free newsletter.
    • Shutterbug
      US magazine covering all aspects of photography, including digital photography.

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