Online Photography Resources

November 19, 2009  /  Photography  /  6 Comments  /  Zachary Cameron

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Here is a compilation of some of my favorite online photography resources, most of which were pulled straight from my bookmarks. What are some of your favorite photography websites?

Inspiration:

• Ilovethatphoto – Great selection of photographer interviews/work.

• Feaverish Photography – Simple photography blog featuring an insane amount of work you’ve probably never seen before.

• Yay!Everyday – I can’t really recommend Dropular or FFFFOUND! because they don’t offer much in the way of learning more about the artist. However, Yay!Everday does, and it is really appreciated.

• This Also – A “photographer aggregator.” Love it.

• Booooooom – The reigning king of all things visual. Link leads directly to booooooom’s photography section.

• The Big Picture – Boston.com’s The Big Picture is basically the greatest thing to ever happen to photojournalism.

• Shutterspark – Great showcase of photography graduates.

• Hedi Slimane Diary – Personal photo diary of designer and photographer Hedi Slimane.

• Purple Diary – Purple Magazine’s photo diary.

• Recordis Photography – Nice photography blog.

Camera Related/Reviews

• Danny Choo – Danny Choo’s website is one of the few personal blogs that I actually follow day to day. I love all of his Tokyo photo posts, but he also does a lot of great product reviews.

• Luminous Landscape – I love Luminous Landscape for their camera comparisons and hands on field testing. Give me a few image samples compared to another camera and I am a happy man.

• DPreview – Comprehensive camera reviews for those people that spend more time with their camera gear than their own family.

• Engadget – Engadget’s camera section. Should be self explanatory.

Portfolio Options:

I just want to preface this section by saying that DeviantArt sucks (if you’re a photographer). It’s probably great if you like drawing pictures of half naked fairies, but as a photographer you should really get yourself a legitimate portfolio. Your own .com isn’t necessary, but it doesn’t hurt either.

• Carbonmade – The best online portfolio option available (that I know of at least), offering both free and paid accounts.

• Flickr – This should be obvious. Just make sure you’re using it to the best of your ability. Use your real name, offer your contact information, and offer an image bigger than 500x in width (the bigger the better, just watermark it if you’re paranoid). Computer monitors are only getting bigger these days, and to some (read: me) your 500 x 333 image might look like a thumbnail. Lastly, Flickr really isn’t a serious portfolio option, its more useful as a way to network and develop contacts, so use it as such.

• Cargo Collective – Currently in pre-release, Cargo is a CMS platform that can be used to build a free portfolio.

Misc.

• TinEye – TinEye is a reverse image lookup. Basically, if you have an image and you want to figure out who created it or where it came from, feed your image into TinEye and hopefully it’ll send you in the right direction. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work.

• /r/photography – Reddit’s photography subreddit. Also check out /r/photocritique/ and /r/itookapicture/.

• Camera Simulator – Learn how a camera’s aperture, shutter and ISO value work. Great teaching tool.

• Whats The Jackanory? – Photography blog by professional photographer Andrew Hetherington.