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Links Organizations Affiliated with Valley Viewfinders Columbia Council of Camera Clubs (4Cs) is an organization consisting of photography/camera clubs from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and northern California. Photographic
Society of America (PSA) is a worldwide interactive organization
for anyone interested in photography, be they casual or serious
amateurs or professional photographers. PSA offers their individual,
camera club, and council members a wide variety of activities:
a monthly magazine, photo and digital competitions, study groups
via mail and the internet, how-to programs, an annual conference,
and a raft of other activities and services.
Pacific Northwest Photography Organizations Nature Photographers of the Pacific Northwest (NPPNW). The primary purpose of the Nature Photographers of the Pacific Northwest (NPPNW) is to share information about nature and wildlife photography and thereby to promote the growth and development of its members. They meet twice a year, rotating meeting sites. Northwest Council of Camera Clubs is a federation of camera clubs, not individuals, located in Washington and Canada. The intent of the NWCCC is to promote the advancement of photography as a science, recreation, art, and to encourage social contacts between all persons interested in photography. Pacific
Northwest Nature Photographers (PNWNP). We are a Regional
Group of Nature Photographers Network (NPN), a worldwide online
community of nature photographers. The regional group was founded
to organize field outings and other informal gatherings. We organize
several events each year in various locations around the Northwest.
Pacific Northwest Photography Clubs (this is not a complete listing) Bend, Oregon. Cascade Camera Club Boise, Idaho. Boise Camera Club Eugene, Oregon. Emerald Photographic Society McMinnville, Oregon. Yamhill Valley Camera Club Medford, Oregon. Southern Oregon Photographic Association Oregon coast. Oregon Coast Photographers' Association Portland, Oregon. Portland Photographers Forum is dedicated to the enhancement of creative photographers. Walla, Walla, Washington. Blue Mountain Photo Club Information on more Pacific Northwest clubs
National Photography Organizations North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) states it "is the first and only association in North America committed solely to serving the field of nature photography".
Artic and Antarctic Photography Bryan & Cherry Alexander Photography Arctic and Antarctic Specialists. Over 100,000 images, mostly of Polar Regions make up their collection.
Butterflies The Oregon Zoo in Portland, Oregon presents the Winged Wonders butterfly exhibit, May 21 through Labor Day, 2006. The Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington has a year-round tropical butterfly house. The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers offers a butterfly exhibit from March 24, 2006 through October 29, 2006. USA Public Butterfly Gardens is a listing of public butterfly gardens across the United States. The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington has a seasonal butterfly exhibit.
Camera Maintenance Digital Camera Cleaning tips and techniques. This is a site designed to help educate the consumer on how to clean the CCD/CMOS sensor in their Digital SLR Cameras.
Camera News, Reviews, Forums, Pixel Peeping, and so on Digital Photography Review™ (My personal favorite site for news & info. pc)
Clouds John A. Day, aka "Cloudman" offers basic tips on cloud photography
Color Management Dry Creek Photo - Digital Imaging Resources for Photographers by Photographers ePaperPress - Monitor calibration
Computers Pixel Performance - Creating an Optimized Windows XP Digital Imaging System is an in-depth article by Tim Grey that covers hardware, system and software configuration, and maintenance.
Contests Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition is a contest that recognizes excellence in photography through the microscope. Previous prize winners are shown in the galleries, offering an fascinating perspective of the world. Worth1000 Photoshop contests, forums and tutorials. The contest creations must be seen to be believed!
Education, Classes, and Tuturials Cambridge in Colour contains digital photography tutorials on several subjects. Tim Grey's Digital Darkroom Questions e-mail list is an almost-daily e-mail list providing answers to questions related to the digital darkroom. By subscribing to the list, you will receive an e-mail just about every weekday with answers to questions submitted by fellow readers. Digital Dog - At this site you will also find articles on imaging written by Andrew Rodney (The Digital Dog) for Photo Electronic Imaging and Professional Photographer magazine and other articles of interest. You will find Tips, Articles, FAQs, How-Tos, links and many other useful resources. Kodak's Guide to Better Pictures - Topics include Taking Pictures, About Digital Cameras, Printing Pictures, Sharing Pictures, Getting Started with Digital, Enhancing & Restoring, About Film Cameras and Stories Featuring Photography. The Luminous Landscape is devoted to the art of landscape, nature and documentary photography using digital as well as traditional image processing techniques. You will find on these pages instructive feature articles, product reviews, travel and technical discussions, inspiring portfolios, and a Discussion Forum. Luv 2 Help provides free video tutorials on Photoshop techniques. Microsoft's Pro Photo website offers articles, events, downloads and more. Norman Koren offers somewhat advanced tutorials on many photography subjects, including "Making Fine Prints in Your Digital Darkroom", "Understanding Image Sharpness", and "Color Management". Prime Junta contains miscellaneous photography information, and other information and opinions from the author. Rob Galbraith Digital Photography Insights presents digital photography news, reviews, tutorials, and discussion forums for professional photographers. Take Great Pictures - Photography-related columns, resources, contests, and more. Worth1000 contains tutorials designed to teach you some very creative methods.
Fall Colors USDA Forest Service provides information on regional fall foliage sites.
Field Trips The Friends of the Columbia Gorge offer guided field trips which feature wildflowers, waterfalls, and spectacular scenery of the Gorge. Washington
Trails Association is a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization
working to preserve, enhance and promote hiking opportunities
in Washington state through collaboration, education, advocacy
and trail maintenance. Use
this site to make your own field trip! Covered Bridges A general interest covered bridges web site, The Covered Bridge Society of Oregon, with links and tons of state wide information. Covered Bridges Of Cottage Grove
Filters Cafe Cokin is an unofficial Cokin filter system web site. Explains how the system works, provides example photographs, and more.
Image Sharing, Critiquing, and Discussion Fred Miranda contains reviews, articles, a forum, and links to software. Nikonians is a dynamic community with over 22,000 active Nikon® users supporting each other in a friendly way. Photo.net Nature Photography pages is a source for guide and reference articles, equipment reviews, travel locations, an image critique, and a discussion forum. ShutterFreaks offers tips for taking and processing photographs, free Photoshop Actions, and links to other photographic resources. In addition, the forums are a place to view photos and to post your own photos for sharing or critique.
Links, links, and more links Earthbound Light photography links for the Pacific Northwest and beyond Photography and Digital Imaging links National Geographic Photography Links Wahm Search Engine photography links
Magazines Digital PhotoPro. A Guide to Advanced Technology and Creativity Nature Photographers Online Magazine Vivid Light Photography is a monthly on-line photo magazine containing articles, reader questions and classified advertisements.
Misc The American Museum of Photography is a on-line "... Museum Without Walls... For An Art Without Boundaries." Ashes and Snow is a multimedia experience combining creative fine art photography, music, and video. Copyright information GeoSnapper.com is the birthplace of GPS Photography O'Reilly Digital Media - "Explore the future of audio, video, and photography Photoquest.com states "Our goal ... is to bring you great photography and show you unusual and exciting things. We want to inspire you to appreciate the beauty of our world, to encourage you to look around and we hope to teach you to see. " Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines. These 15 guidelines — along with the accompanying Best Practices documents — aim to clarify issues affecting accurate reproduction and management of digital image files. Although they largely reflect a photographer’s perspective, anyone working with digital images should find them useful. Abbortsford Photography Festival, recommended by Hal Schalles. Nature Photography National Center for Nature Photography has a mission "To inspire reverence for natural fauna, flora and their habitats through visual media with the goal of promoting greater understanding and support for preserving our natural world." The Nature Photographer's Year is an article by David Middleton in which he maps out an entire year with the best places to go at the best times.
Photoshop PixelPerfect Online video tutorials on Photoshop, lightroom, etc. by Bert Monroy. Great! Photoshop Action! includes tutorials and free downloadable actions Adobe Photoshop Tutorials from Adobe ePaperPress - Photoshop for Photographers National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is a dynamic trade association and the world’s leading resource for Adobe® Photoshop® education, training, and news. Worth1000 Photoshop contests, forums and tutorials. The contest creations must be seen to be believed!
Satellite Photography Google Earth. As stated on the site "Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips."
Selling Photography Editorial Photographers is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and profitability of editorial photography. Our mission is to educate photographers and photography buyers about business issues affecting our industry, and in the process raise the level of business practices in the profession. Fine Art Photography Resource Center Information on Marketing and Selling Art FotoQuote is an electronic price guide for stock and assignment photography. A free demo version may be downloaded. Freelance Photography tips and advice from ephotozine includes articles on how to break into the calendar market, greeting cards, model releases, and much more. Selling Stock is an online newsletter reporting on the worldwide Stock Photo Industry with an emphasis on the U.S. market. The coverage is focused on issues of interest to stock photographers as well as archive owners and their employees. Stock Photo Price Calculator is an on-line calculator that allows you to quickly determine a recommended price for advertising, corporate, or editorial stock photography. Stockphoto is a worldwide stock photography agency & library database.
Smoke Photography An easy-to-understand description of how to photograph smoke on Lumendipity Blog. LeggNet's Digital Capture contains examples of smoke photography along with how-to instructions.
Software Adobe digital imaging software, includes Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Album Autostitch "is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualization applications." Digital Film Tools offers the 55mm plug-in which "simulates a variety of traditional film filter effects". The GIMP "is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything." HeliconFocus "is a program that creates one completely focused image from several partially focused images by combining the focused areas." Kodak Professional sells several plug-ins, including Digital ICE (removes dust and scratches), Digital GEM (reduces images noise and film grain), Digital SHO (brings out detail in shadow and highlight areas), and Digital ROC (corrects color balance). Free trial versions are available. nik multimedia plugs-ins include Color Efex Pro (fixes color) and Sharpener Pro (sharpens). Noise Ninja is a tool for removing noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned film images. Photodex slide show software ProShow and ProShow Gold. PixelGenius plug-ins. Picasa "is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC". A free software download from Google. John W. Scherer, Video Professor Tutorials (for sale) on Photoshop
Sun and Moon Moon phase calculators from StarDate U.S. Naval Observatory page provides a way for you to obtain a table of the altitude and azimuth of the Sun or Moon during a specific day, at a time interval that you specify.
3D Photography 3D
Center of Art and Photography located in Portland, Oregon
is a non-profit museum/gallery, featuring antique and contemporary
3D imagery. The Center houses everything from antique stereo cards
to View Master, contemporary 3D photography, lenticulars, anaglyphs,
and computer generated 3D art. Travel Guides and Newsletters Carol Leigh's Photo Explorations includes guidebooks for photographing California, a California wildflower hotsheet and fall foliage hotsheet, and more. Photograph America newsletter Photo Travel travel guides for photographers. Also includes Photo Traveler Bulletin and a Photo Travel Information Exchange.
Waterfalls Waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest describes and rates waterfalls.
Wildflowers Antelope Valley, California, Poppy Preserve California Wildflower Hotsheet from Carol Leigh
Wildlife The Visitors' Guide to Wildlife Areas and Hatcheries from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife provides information on viewing areas across the state The Weekender Report, a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife publication containing wildlife viewing information, updated every few weeks. . |
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