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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: richard laughlin on February 25, 2010, 02:23:23 pm

Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: richard laughlin on February 25, 2010, 02:23:23 pm
Apologies to our hosts. Am interested in the other 'boards' visited by the members..
Yep I find myself online with a visit list of around 5 bookmarks, but none of them feel just right...

hoping that this group (and two others I'm posting this same mess to) will mention something other than the dozen or so that I've marked and zombied.

Richard L.
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Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 25, 2010, 03:33:53 pm
Accept no substitutes!

LuLa is the only fully organic, grass-fed, free-range, shade-grown photography site on the Web, providing 100% of your daily requirements of protein, vitamins, and information, with just a smidgeon of flame wars now and then to add a bit of spice.   

Time spent looking for other websites is better spent staying right here, or perusing one of LuLa's many tutorials or DVDs. Or maybe even going out and making photographs!

Just my totally objective opinion. LuLa is the Cat's meow (but limited to one cat photo per year).

Eric

Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: RSL on February 25, 2010, 04:16:36 pm
Hear, Hear!! Eric's right on the money with that opinion. On most other fora you'll find people who do brilliant things like list all their equipment so they can show you that "Mine* is bigger than yours.*"

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* Equipment list
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: seamus finn on February 25, 2010, 04:48:03 pm


Amen to that!
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: seamus finn on February 25, 2010, 04:50:00 pm


Amen to all of the above!
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: Wolfman on February 25, 2010, 05:39:41 pm
Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes
Accept no substitutes!

LuLa is the only fully organic, grass-fed, free-range, shade-grown photography site on the Web, providing 100% of your daily requirements of protein, vitamins, and information, with just a smidgeon of flame wars now and then to add a bit of spice.   

Time spent looking for other websites is better spent staying right here, or perusing one of LuLa's many tutorials or DVDs. Or maybe even going out and making photographs!

Just my totally objective opinion. LuLa is the Cat's meow (but limited to one cat photo per year).

Eric


Link please.... thanks
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: DarkPenguin on February 25, 2010, 06:04:06 pm
Quote from: Wolfman
Link please.... thanks

www.luminous-landscape.com (http://www.luminous-landscape.com)
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 25, 2010, 07:41:31 pm
Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes
Accept no substitutes!... Time spent looking for other websites is better spent staying right here, or perusing one of LuLa's many tutorials or DVDs. Or maybe even going out and making photographs!...
I wholeheartedly agree with the last part, taking/making photographs! As for the rest... empires were lost and kingdoms dethroned because their view of the world got more and more myopic, ultimately limited to the inner clique surrounding the leader. Hence, as much as I like and value this site and hang out here daily (obviously!), here are a couple of others I visit often:

- The Online Photographer, by Mike Johnston

- Ken Rockwell (oh, heresy) for fun, an occasional pearl of wisdom, and to remind me not to take neither me, nor him, too seriously

- rangefindermag.com, online site of one of the best magazines published today (imho), which I happen to read for days and come back months later... contrast that with other magazines that I happen to still have subscriptions to (merely because they were like ten bucks for three years), which I use like paper tissues: skim through them once and into recycling bin they go (the likes of Popular Photography, and even Outdoor Photographer - a glossy advertorial)

Now, let the flaming begin!
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: Gordon Buck on February 25, 2010, 08:06:13 pm
I like the Strobist, David Hobby, because he emphasizes lighting in ways typically not covered here or TOP, see http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/ (http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/)

Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: DarkPenguin on February 25, 2010, 08:08:26 pm
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: JBerardi on February 25, 2010, 10:02:47 pm
Thom Hogan (http://bythom.com/). Guy knows his stuff.

Photoshop Disasters (http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/). This one is just hilarious.
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: wolfnowl on February 25, 2010, 10:07:44 pm
I have a list of sites I visit regularly here: http://www.wolfnowl.com/2009/12/photography-links/ (http://www.wolfnowl.com/2009/12/photography-links/)

Of course this site is at the top...

Mike.

P.S. If you want Lightroom specific information, over a hundred links are here: http://www.wolfnowl.com/2010/01/photograph...shop-lightroom/ (http://www.wolfnowl.com/2010/01/photography-links-adobe-photoshop-lightroom/)
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 26, 2010, 12:30:11 am
Quote from: DarkPenguin
  • The Luminous Landscape (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/)
  • Photo.net (http://www.photo.net/)
  • Digital Photography Review (http://www.dpreview.com/)
  • Fred Miranda (http://www.fredmiranda.com/)
  • LensWork Technology Blog (http://technology.lenswork.com/)
  • Mike   Johnston's The Online Photographer (http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html)
  • Strobist – Small Strobe   Lighting Blog (http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/)
  • Conscientious Blog (http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/)
  • Art Wolfe's Blog (http://blog.artwolfe.com/)
  • A Photo Editor – Photography   Director Rob Haggart (http://www.aphotoeditor.com/)
  • Joe McNally's Blog (http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/)
  • The Global   Photographer – Andy Biggs (http://www.theglobalphotographer.com/)
  • LensWork Vision of   the Heart (http://visionoftheheart.lenswork.com/)
  • LensWork Ask Brooks Jensen   blog (http://askbrooks.lenswork.com/)
  • Behind the Lens Blog –   George Barr (http://www.georgebarr.com/page33/page33.php)
  • 5B4 – Photography and Books (http://5b4.blogspot.com/)
  • Godfrey Digiorgi's   Posterous (http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com/)
  • Wall Street Journal's   Photo Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/)
  • 1854 – the blog of the British Journal   of Photography (http://www.1854.eu/)
  • The Big Picture –   Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/)
  • The   Independent Photo Book (http://theindependentphotobook.blogspot.com/)
Hey, Dark! I think you need to spend less time on the web and more time out photographing!   

Eric


Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: richard laughlin on February 27, 2010, 04:10:33 pm
thanks all for the suggestions, though what I meant by "board" was a site with interactive/inclusive/active viewers, aka members, for example LuLa (this place).
I can expand further, since it seems others are taking the hint that "working pros + business" phots need a private space (thread on this board)

I have found gearheads, pixelpopes, chemarus, fstop fitzgeralds all aplenty, but not THE place.

However, again thanks all for your answers.

richard l.
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Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: Dansk on February 27, 2010, 04:19:54 pm

Dpreview is hard to find site that has a TON of helpful info






.... or not hhahaha
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: David Sutton on March 01, 2010, 01:05:22 am
I've had a look at all the above sites and am shocked to find NO cats or bunnies! You could try:
http://cuteoverload.com/ (http://cuteoverload.com/)
http://www.angryalien.com/ (http://www.angryalien.com/)
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 01, 2010, 11:44:02 am
Quote from: David Sutton
I've had a look at all the above sites and am shocked to find NO cats or bunnies! You could try:
http://cuteoverload.com/ (http://cuteoverload.com/)
http://www.angryalien.com/ (http://www.angryalien.com/)

Aw, shucks! You caught me!


Cut Overload is the only serious (?) photo website besides LuLa that I visit every day. Of course, if LuLa had forum threads for pocket pets, cats, hamsters, pot-bellied pigs, etc. --- all with the CO's style of serious captions, of course --- then I wouldn't need to go anywhere else.   

Eric
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: RSL on March 01, 2010, 03:19:03 pm
Quote from: David Sutton
I've had a look at all the above sites and am shocked to find NO cats or bunnies! You could try:
http://cuteoverload.com/ (http://cuteoverload.com/)
http://www.angryalien.com/ (http://www.angryalien.com/)

David, Maybe none of those guys has a Leica M9. You need an M9 to shoot cats and bunnies.
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: Wolfman on March 01, 2010, 09:05:32 pm
Quote from: richard laughlin
Apologies to our hosts. Am interested in the other 'boards' visited by the members..
Yep I find myself online with a visit list of around 5 bookmarks, but none of them feel just right...

hoping that this group (and two others I'm posting this same mess to) will mention something other than the dozen or so that I've marked and zombied.

Richard L.
s


http://www.thefstopmag.com/index.php (http://www.thefstopmag.com/index.php)
Title: Other Netplaces for Photographers
Post by: Peter Mellis on March 03, 2010, 07:45:29 pm
If you shoot/used to shoot/may shoot film, look at this site: http://www.apug.org/forums/home.php (http://www.apug.org/forums/home.php) Very interesting info and people;none of the "mine is bigger than yours" stuff. One of the things that it has in common with LuLa, is that the people are friendly and helpful.