Bill Pierce
Well-known
Almost every morning, when I turn on my computer and collect my email, I check a few photo blogs and websites. While websites get added and subtracted to that list, a few have lasted for years and become the staples of my AM internet browsing. It’s interesting to try and figure out why.
The first is The Online Photographer (TOP). Mike Johnston does a remarkable thing, Between Mike and his friends there is a new article on the site, sometimes two, almost every day. I’ll discover a new and interesting site, only to find that it’s a month or more before a new item appears on the blog. I will have spent more time logging on and off the blog than I do reading new content. Not so with TOP, so it’s the first thing I log onto in the morning. http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html
The common denominator for all photographers is cameras and lenses. We may shoot different things for different purposes, but we use similar tools to do it. There are a huge number of blogs that review those tools. But, sadly, they are often opinion pieces. I remember when Norm Goldberg, who had been doing testing for the U.S. military set up the Pop Photo test lab. The output was in numbers, even for things like mirror shake, not about how Norm felt about the camera. Ditto Geoffrey Crawley. Probably best known outside of photography for exposing the Cottingley Fairies hoax, as editor of the British Journal of Photography, he published test reports on gear that were so thorough that they were always the last published and always the most objective, thorough and accurate. I only know of one website whose equipment reviews approach Goldberg and Crawley thoroughness and objectivity (and don’t think every piece of equipment they review is just wonderful). I hope there are other sites like this, but I am a huge fan of the Lensrentals Blog. http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/
I have no interest in photographing a landscape, a skyscape or most anything without people or their footprints, which oddly enough is the reason I always check in to the Luminous Landscape. I think it’s beneficial to check into worlds that you are not familiar with. And the Luminous Landscape folks, Michael Reichmann and Kevin Raber, inhabit a world, of which my ignorance is paramount, with such intensity and enthusiasm that I learn from them. I don’t know whether I’m learning our shared craft or a tolerance of trees, but I wouldn't miss tuning into the Luminous Landscape. https://luminous-landscape.com/
Do you have some websites that are regulars for you? I think all of us would benefit from seeing what other internet photo explorers have found that they like.
The first is The Online Photographer (TOP). Mike Johnston does a remarkable thing, Between Mike and his friends there is a new article on the site, sometimes two, almost every day. I’ll discover a new and interesting site, only to find that it’s a month or more before a new item appears on the blog. I will have spent more time logging on and off the blog than I do reading new content. Not so with TOP, so it’s the first thing I log onto in the morning. http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html
The common denominator for all photographers is cameras and lenses. We may shoot different things for different purposes, but we use similar tools to do it. There are a huge number of blogs that review those tools. But, sadly, they are often opinion pieces. I remember when Norm Goldberg, who had been doing testing for the U.S. military set up the Pop Photo test lab. The output was in numbers, even for things like mirror shake, not about how Norm felt about the camera. Ditto Geoffrey Crawley. Probably best known outside of photography for exposing the Cottingley Fairies hoax, as editor of the British Journal of Photography, he published test reports on gear that were so thorough that they were always the last published and always the most objective, thorough and accurate. I only know of one website whose equipment reviews approach Goldberg and Crawley thoroughness and objectivity (and don’t think every piece of equipment they review is just wonderful). I hope there are other sites like this, but I am a huge fan of the Lensrentals Blog. http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/
I have no interest in photographing a landscape, a skyscape or most anything without people or their footprints, which oddly enough is the reason I always check in to the Luminous Landscape. I think it’s beneficial to check into worlds that you are not familiar with. And the Luminous Landscape folks, Michael Reichmann and Kevin Raber, inhabit a world, of which my ignorance is paramount, with such intensity and enthusiasm that I learn from them. I don’t know whether I’m learning our shared craft or a tolerance of trees, but I wouldn't miss tuning into the Luminous Landscape. https://luminous-landscape.com/
Do you have some websites that are regulars for you? I think all of us would benefit from seeing what other internet photo explorers have found that they like.
mfogiel
Veteran
More than a blog, this is a photo magazine with a rare virtu: they never talk about gear. It's well worth subscribing to, particularly as you can't beat the quality/cost ratio, because it's free: http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com
FrankS
Registered User
Thank you for,these suggestions!
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
I'm visiting three websites daily.
Rangefinderforum.com
APUG.org
rangefinder.ru
For fresh film photography daily (next to zero interest in digital) - those whom I follow on Flickr.
Rangefinderforum.com
APUG.org
rangefinder.ru
For fresh film photography daily (next to zero interest in digital) - those whom I follow on Flickr.
harpofreely
Well-known
All photos, no gear, art / historical emphasis: http://www.americansuburbx.com/