Comments on: The Digital Photography Show #18: Our Web Favorites and Three Hot New DSLRs

By: Harry Yuen

Harry Yuen — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:33:36 +0000

http://www.kenrockwell.com

By: Harry Yuen

Harry Yuen — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:32:38 +0000

This is a great site. Especially for new Nikon users. He’s got great tutorials on how to setup your new Nikon. As well as great product comparisons and news.

By: Landya McCafferty

Landya McCafferty — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:53:35 +0000

I have 3 sites to recommend:

1. For color management and all things dealing with printing, there is no better teacher than Mike Chaney (the creator and developer of the best printing software I have used, called Qimage). His column is here:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/techcorner/tc_index.html

I think he would be an excellent guest on your show. Although I have never heard him talk, I have seen his email responses to folks on his forum and he seems great. He explains color management in a way that I can understand. And that is a feat!

2. For Photoshop Elements users (we are lonely sometimes with all the focus on Photoshop), the best site on the planet is http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/
The forums are incredible. The nicest people you can imagine and they get you the right answer almost as soon as you post a question. The video tutorials are so good that I subscribed a year ago and just re-upped my subscription for another 2 years.

3. I know there are a plethora of photography forums out there. I am a Nikon person, so this is for Nikon photographers. The best, in my opinion and this comes after visiting darn near all of them, is
http://www.nikoncafe.com/vforums/index.php
Great group of people and incredible photographers. The focus is more on friendship and encouragement in terms of its tone, but it is jammed-pack with technical know-how and tutorials as well.

By: Allen Rockwell

Allen Rockwell — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:39:15 +0000

I wanted to add one of my favorite photo sites … this one is not a “How to” site, it’s a site loaded with this photographer’s photos. I spend hours just looking at all his photos.

His name is Nir Oren, he lives in Tel Aviv Israel.

His website is http://www.nir-vana.com

Kinda like myself, Nir has varried insterests … he takes photojournalistic shots, travel snaps, sports shots, wildlife shots, street photos, festivals, abstracts and lots of people shots (beautiful males and females).

By: Michael GW Stein

Michael GW Stein — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:35:47 +0000

Thanks, Allen. Like Mary, I’m working on a family reunion slide show. I’m now trying my best to do subtle, but cool pan/zoom/rotations. I’ll be distributing it to the entire family so I don’t want to make them sick.

Michael

By: Allen Rockwell

Allen Rockwell — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:46:45 +0000

Michael,

I just went and looked at your photo slide show from the airshow … very nice work!

By: Yuval

Yuval — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 06:27:06 +0000

I took the liberty of tagging all of the favorites in del.icio.us, so everyone can have access, and in addition whenever in the future anyone wants to add a favorite, one can subscribe to the list via RSS.

feel free to checkout my photography tag at http://del.icio.us/yyeret/photography.

Thanks for another interesting show guys! keep it up!

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:23:56 +0000

Another good show guys, glad you liked the link. Maybe viewers favourite links could become a running feature.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:13:32 +0000

Michael…I thought your pan and zooms, rotations and transitions were terrific…it sure is more dramatic than viewing still pictures. I love the program too…I’m doing a slideshow of our family reunion. I’m currently trying to decide between “We are Family” and “I Will Survive” as the background music.

Scott…I’m not sure about the crack, but if there’s any residual alcohol in the flask, I wouldn’t light it…although it might be the most exciting thing to ever happen at a PTA meeting.

By: Michael GW Stein

Michael GW Stein — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:43:05 +0000

Hi Mary,

I have been playing with FotoMagico since you recommended it. I love it. I am sure I went a little overboard with the pan and zoom, but I was just trying to see what it could do and the air show was a good vehicle for taking advantage of those dramatic features. Thanks for mentioning that product.

Michael

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:10:33 +0000

Can you fit crack into a flask?

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:52:58 +0000

Good show Guys…and thanks for all the recommendations in your show notes.

One of the sites I like is http://www.thedigitalstory.com. You might consider interviewing Derrick Story, the author of that site.

Michael, I really liked your “Air Show” slideshow.

Scott, I’m glad my PTA days are over. I used to get nuts about five minutes into the meeting. Take a flask.