Photography

In April 2007 I bought by first digital SLR camera, a Nikon D40.

My thoughts, comments, photos

• My D40 photo album
• Playing with camera settings

Software help

• Adobe Lightroom
  • My Intro to Lightroom blog entry
  • Adobe Lightroom Wiki
  • O’Reilly’s “Inside Lightroom”
  • Lightroom Resource Center at PhotoshopSupport.com
  • Lightroom Killer Tips
  • Custom Metadata View Preset Generator
    • My preset
  • Web gallery templates
    • Flash gallery creators
    • http://www.lightroomgalleries.com/
    • http://theturninggate.net/blog/?c=Lightroom
  • Adobe video tutorials

• Gimp
  • Getting started with the GIMP
  • Neutral density filter tutorial
  • Simulating shallow depth-of-field
  • Replacing a background

Links to other photography sites

• http://betterphoto.com/
• http://photo.net/
• http://strobist.blogspot.com/
• http://www.sniperphotography.com/ – Big Ryan’s site
• http://www.danheller.com/techfaq.html – Dan Heller’s techniques
• http://www.photozone.de/4Technique/index.html – Photozone techniques

Ken Rockwell’s Info

• Nikon D40 review
• D40 performance
• Standard 18-55mm lens
• 55-200mm VR lens
• D40 User’s Guide
• Photography without tripods
• How to get great colors

HDR (High Dynamic Range) Imaging

• Wikipedia entry including links at bottom
• Trey Ratcliff’s Modern HDR Photography How-To
• Trey Ratcliff’s HDR Photos

Other Stuff

• Nikonians.org
• DPFWIW (Digital photography for what it’s worth)
  • Shooting the moon

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