…and the advanced sides too.
YOUR GEAR :
13 Lessons to Teach Your Child About Digital Photography and yourself 
31 Days to a Better Photo | The Complete Index
If your camera has the option of M settings, AV, TV, A-Dep mode, than you should read it too.
The most important – take pics. Only by doing it you will get better. Take tons of pics, of everything that attracts your attention. Compare, with pics from magazines, the web.Think what can you do better. Learn and improve.
5 Common Photography Questions from Beginners (and Their Answers)
A 15 Minute Lesson For The Photography Beginner
What To Do With Your New Camera
10 Ways to Improve Your Photography
“And when you believe that ‘the universe is speaking to you,’ might you not find time to listen?”
‘Your camera takes great photos.’ 
How to Make Your Photography Stand Out
What do I look for on a Photo Walk?
Camera shooting modes and manual settings
BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY RULES:
The Rule Every Photographer Must Know: The Rule of Thirds
33 Photos That Use the Golden Hour For Great Lighting
Photography in Harsh Mid-Day Light
4 Types of Lighting and How to Shoot in Them
EXPOSURE:
What is exposure
How to Create a Starburst Effect in Photographs – wheere is your f-stop at?
A Beginner’s Guide to Using Aperture Priority Mode
Shutter Priority Mode: A Beginner’s Guide
Are You Using Your Histogram to Get Better Photographs?
Exposure Compensation: Manual Shooting Without Being In Manual
Exposure compnsation explained
Understanding Light: A Series of Tutorials
FOCUS ISSUES?
Read Advanced Tips for Tack Sharp Images and
5 Situations When Manual Focus is Better than Auto Focus
A Comprehensive Guide to Photographing Youth Sport
The Problem With The Focus-Recompose Method
FOCAL LENGTH > An Introduction to Focal Length
NOISE ISSUES? How to reduce noise
Depth of field – or how to accentuate your portrait shots and photography in general
WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTING?
COMPOSITION :
What the Dutch Masters Can Teach Us About Photography: The Center of Interest
35 Creative Examples of Forced Perspective Photography. Don’t forget to have FUN!!!
Composition (visual arts) – Wikipedia
composition: what’s wrong with these pictures?
TELL A STORY
The Keys to Developing Your Personal Photographic Style
tell a story – creating mulity layered photografs .See nick onken and his marvelous photo stories.
Photographic Storytelling Checklist
How to Tell a Story with Your Photographs
Learn to Think and Compose Like a Painter
5 Ways to Improve Your Photography Without Spending More Money
http://photo.net/learn/ is a good site to start learning about photography
Everyone starts their photography journey as a beginner
14 Ways To Significantly Improve Your Photography Today
Photographic Levitation – The Prop Method
From what I’ve learned so far, in order to have a WOW shot, you need:
A. a good shot,not always a good camera.
B . edit the pic , there is always something that you can boost with a program , when only contrast and color.
How Post-Processing Helped Me Become a Better Photographer
C. talent to see, talent to observe. Everyone can buy a camera, but few can make good shots.
Exposure Triangle – Not just about more/less light and The Idiot’s Guide To Camera Settings
The technical side of a good shot are light, composition, Exposure, shutter speed,camera shake and motion blur etc.These are your tools to achieve the effect you want , the effect u see. It is very frustrating when your camera is not cooperating.
Smart exposure try spot metering
Do You Have Enough Talent In Your Tank to be a Photographer? “Do it anyway. Take the next step. Do it because it’s fun. Do it because the world needs more beauty. Do it because your inner voice is too loud and you can’t get to sleep.” If you feel you need to do it – just do it!
Legal issues for street photographers
Photography and The Law: Know Your Rights
> Street photographer rights ( written for Australia)
Gear :
Is Camera Lust Destroying our Photography?
How to Choose Your Next Camera
Got a new camera?Than read these 5 “before first use”steps
Lenses, simply explained > www.blog.shutterfly.com/focusing-in-on-lenses and How to find a lens that’s perfect for your photographic needs
Filters :Introduction to Filters for Digital Cameras
Ten Myths of Professional Commercial Photography
Than are coming the PICTURE EDITING PROGRAMS.
That’s a Photoshop! All photographers post process their work.
How to Use Photoshop Curves to Correct Exposure and Colour
How to use shadow highlight in Photoshop to get impressive results
How to Sharpen Non-destructively in Photoshop
http://www.lightstalking.com/post-processing-software-2
There are some easy to operate and FREE picture editing programs for beginners. The one I was using the most and was doing a great job, when I had wondows XP was the plain and simple Windows picture manager. It has all the options that you need to enhance your digital shots that you download fron your camera for a WOW effect. First I adjust brughtness/contrast/midtones, than saturate with hue/saturation. If there are red eyes you can fix that too. Crop the pic for better effect etc etc.
Exposure vs. Brightness vs. Fill Light
Vibrance vs. Saturation in Plain English
still FREE but advanced like http://www.gimp.org/ or the ArcSoft Photo studio, and Panorama Maker that are included in the installation cd whenever you buy a Canon product.
Photoshop is not for everyone. It is an advanced picture editing software and is VERY frustrating at the beginning. I was struggling with it for some time, and failed at every attempt. Good enough to make most people give up. That’s until I came accross some online step by step tutorials. So I started trying them out, sometimes it worked, sometimes not and I was still not understanding what was I doing. But the more you do , the easier it gets. So if you are stubborn enough, go for it! It will give you endless opportunites of editing your pics just like the pros.
20 tutorials on how to make basic adjustments in photoshop
“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all.
It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” – Arnold Newman
COPYRIGHT
Gestohlene bilder? – Dr Wolfgang Maaßen , Rechtsanwalt
Shutterstock – larger list about copyright issues and trademarks
Noam Galai’s Stolen Scream An interesting story about a STOLEN image that made a turn around the globe. And also Empty Cup: A Case of Copyright Infringement [Update] i quite an interesting read.
http://www.lighting-essentials.com/10-web-site-strategies-for-emerging-photographers/
brushes, vectors , templates for photoshop
hi anna.
i’m a canon 1000d user. all your picture capture by 1000d is AMAZING!!! how my picture can be good as your picture by using our lovely 1000d? what mode that u usually use? need some tips on night shot coz my night shot is totally sucks!!
LOVE YOUR BLOG! KEEP IT UP!
aris othman
Hi Aris,
I use almost all the modes except”auto”
When I was shooting only in JPG , a habit that I had from my Canon PowerShot A700, I mainly used macro (flower), landscape, night modes.
Since I started shooting in RAW, I am mainly using the AV – Aperture Priority mode and sometimes M – manual. I still re-read the camera manual , to know all the options and settings.
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