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Nosedive 21 Mar 10, 12:54Post
...mods, due to the nature of the boards and locking threads after a certain amount of inactivity, can we sticky this? It'd be a good thread for finding technique sites quickly

EDIT: Adding things as we go, and giving props to who submitted.

Technique sites:
Photoxels - Photography for novices
Good-tutorials.com database
Geoff Lawerence - Tutorial database (HUGE)
Digital Diversity - Composition & Rule of 3rds
Picture Correct - Silhouette
Understanding Histograms- cambridgeincolour.com
Double exposure, crash course how to Video
Ken Rockwell on Filters

Photoshop sites:
Tutvid Intro to PS- video
Instructables
Brushes
Plugins
53 Photoshop Tricks
Levels - video
ClippingLayer Magazine
Lynda.com
Ken Rockwell - Contrast w/ Curves and USM
Bairarteditions - Curves and Exposure
Levels and Exposure
PS Tutorials Blog - Contrast Mask (Or how to do HDR w/o doing HDR... new trick for me!)
Luminous Landscapre - Contrast Mask (diff approach than PSTutorialsblog)
Upgrade Your Photos: 10 Photoshop Tips & Tricks

Good PS B/W:
Ken Rockwell
Tutvid- Video
JoelAddams.com
Layers Magazine - Video
Lynda.com - Video



Selective coloring:
Photoshop Support

Time Lapse:
Vimeo video, uses Lightroom
History and Theory of Time Lapse
Photojojo, info on how to do time-lapse with a P&S
Time Lapse and Photoshop

HDR:
Photomatix Download
Cambridge in Colour - Tutorial (props Lucas)
Photomatix Pro Tutorial-Basic
Stuck in Customs- HDR Tutorials
Vanilla Days- (Theory based)
Luminous Landscape - HDR CS2 Tutorial

Panorams:
Hugin
Autostitch

Good review sites:
DP Review

All around fun sites:
Werner Kunz
1x (props Zak)
Stuck in Customs
Averted Imagination Shots around the solar system (props JLA)

Video Tutorials Databases:
Ranash1995- Youtube
Grafic13- Youtube
Tutvid.com Highly Recommended


Camera Hacks:
Instructables

Alternative Photography:
Solargraphy - Alternative Photography
Solargraphy.com


Edit: June 27, 2011. Contrast stuff
Last edited by Nosedive on 28 Jun 11, 02:14, edited 26 times in total.
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Lucas (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 21 Mar 10, 18:38Post
Wow, very nice site. Definitely a cool resource.
Nosedive 23 Mar 10, 14:36Post
Here's an HDR tutorial. It's a bit wordy, but it covers the bases well, provides lots of instructional photographs and is easy to follow:
http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

I know a bunch of you have some killer bookmarks, so add them! I'll add mine in a bit.


EDIT:
Good PS B/W:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/photoshop/b-w.htm

Selective coloring:
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutoria ... oring.html

Great all around tutorial site:
http://www.geofflawrence.com/

Good review site:
http://www.dpreview.com/
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
graphic 25 Mar 10, 02:58Post
I downloaded a copy of photomatix last night because there are some things lacking in DPHDR (some things lacking in photomatix as well, but different things).

Then I stumbled upon this little gem, tried it, it works (reply 3):
http://tehparadox.com/forum/f93/photoma ... al-133945/
Lucas (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 06 Apr 10, 21:58Post
I'll add another bookmark, if no one minds.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm

The above is an excellent tutorial on how to take high dynamic range images (not to steal your thunder, Nosedive!) that I have used. It's a very simple and easily understood, plus it gives excellent illustrations of when HDR will work best.

Again, great thread. I'd say this is a candidate for a sticky to the top of General Photography.
Zak (netAirspace FAA) 21 Apr 10, 06:21Post
No tutorials or techniques there, but the site brands itself "Best photos on the web". And after browsing their archives, I must say it's at least not a total hubris. Awesome stuff there, lots of inspiration (though they are definitely lacking aircraft photos... {silly} ).

http://1x.com/
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Nosedive 23 Apr 10, 09:40Post
And added. OK, so my primary goal in this thread/sticky is to add everyone's stuff to the OP. That way, we have a quick reference to items we found helpful. My secondary goal is to make that list f-ing huge. 1st goal is being met. Need more help on the secondary goal! (Though thanks to those who are contributing!)
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Lucas (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 25 Apr 10, 02:15Post
Nosedive wrote:And added. OK, so my primary goal in this thread/sticky is to add everyone's stuff to the OP. That way, we have a quick reference to items we found helpful. My secondary goal is to make that list f-ing huge. 1st goal is being met. Need more help on the secondary goal! (Though thanks to those who are contributing!)



That's a great goal, and thanks for adding mine. I'm going to look for a really good tutorial on creating basic frames in photoshop (which help some photos, but others not so much, as I've discovered in the most fugly of ways), but if someone finds a good one first, please post it!
Nosedive 13 Sep 10, 00:37Post
Update: added time lapse stuff, gotta get some time lapse on here!
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
Nosedive 09 Oct 10, 21:43Post
Added double exposure and filters
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 11 Mar 11, 16:46Post
Some amazing images of our solar system by Alan Friedman:-

http://avertedimagination.com/

Image
A million great ideas...
Nosedive 30 Mar 11, 14:07Post
Another, Camera hacks: http://www.instructables.com/id/Camera-Hacks/
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Nosedive 02 Feb 12, 16:37Post
 

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