Links
This page contains a number of useful links related to various arguments: photo technique, technology, physics and some exotic photography topic.
Atmospheric optics and effects
- Atmospheric Optics
- Nubi: nomenclatura e classificazione (in italian)
- Paraselene.de
- Weather Photography
Bird photography
- Birds as Art (Arthur Morris) (and blog)
- Mike Atkinson (and tutorials)
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Colour management
Contests & festivals
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year
- British Wildlife Photography Awards
- Close-up Photographer of the Year
- Festival Photo at Montier-en-Der
- Swiss Mountain Film Festival
- Travel Photographer of the Year
- UK Landscape Photographer of the Year
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Equipment reviewers
- CameraPedia
- Christopher Frost
- Digital Photography Review
- Dustin Abbott
- DXOMARK
- LensTip
- LensRentals
- LenScore
- OpticalLimits
- Phillip Reeve
Photographing far places
- BeyondHorizons.eu — faraway places from all over the world, and also lots of technical info.
- La Corse vue du continent
- Le Canigou vu depuis Allauch et Marseille
- Le Canigou vu depuis Le Coudon
Photography physics
- Electronic Front Curtain Shutter (EFCS)
- Focal length equivalence
- Photons to photos: all about sensors
- Radioactive Lenses
- Understanding bit depth
- Understanding the diffraction limit
- The Diffraction Limit: How small is too small?
- Entekaphobia – fear of the number 11 — Or... How I Learned to Appreciate Small Aperture Photography
- Stabilisation is good…but only up to a point
Technique
- Bokeh explained by Phillip Reeve
- Essential (Sigma) lenses for an Air Show (Joe Koepnik)
- Exposing To The Right (ETTR): at Luminous Landscape, Schewe photo, Chromasoft and Wikipedia.
- Long lenses for landscape: Gary Hart and Shutterbug.
- Wide-angle Macro Photography: part 1, part 2, part 3
- My Not Quite Complete Protective Filter Article — Lens Rentals
- How Front Element Scratches Affect Your Images — Lens Rentals
- To filter or not to filter
- Tilt shift Lenses: perspective control
- Shooting Woodland Photography (Chris Frost)
Technology
- How to check how decentered your lens is at Phillip Reeve
- Image Quality Part III — that is, about designing contemporary lenses at Luminous Landscape
- Polarizing filters test at LensTip
