Free PDF / Ebook tutorial for photographers

A Photographer’s Guide to Depth of Field (DOF) is the first photography downloadable guide from ‘Light Stalking’, but don’t let that fool you! It might be their first guide, but it’s full of excellent advice for beginners.

It starts off explaining why Depth of Field is important, showing stunning visual examples with each point. It then goes on to discuss how to apply good DOF principles to your photographs, camera presets and depth of field in post production.

Unlike other free tutorial guides, you’re not required to hand over your email address or personal details. Simply download the PDF file and start reading. To download your free PDF guide explaining depth of field, visit: http://www.lightstalking.com/dof/

The guide does presume you understand how to use your digital SLR camera, more specifically how to set your Depth Of Field, better known as Aperture or F/Stop. If you’re unsure about this camera setting, I suggest you start with this article: What is AV aperture mode on your digital camera.

PictoBrowser – Free Picasa and Flickr slideshow for your website or blog.

PictoBrowser is a neat slideshow builder that helps you to easily display your Picasa or Flickr photographs on your website or blog. See the example slideshow below, built from one of my Flickr sets.

How to build your own photo slideshow

This photo slideshow tool is very easy to use and recommended for all skill levels. You simply load the online builder, type in your Picasa or Flickr screen name, then customize to your liking. Once completed, mouse click the tab that says ‘Get HTML Code’ to copy and paste into your blog or website. Can’t be easier than that!

PictoBrowser is freely available as an online slideshow builder at: PictoBrowser

Or as a WordPress plugin, offered as a free download from: Kumara Sastry

Requirements

All you need is a website or blog, as well as a Picasa or Flickr account.

Photography Podcasts including 530 Episodes

Shown below is a list of photography podcasts that I have found useful for photographic information and inspiration. All the photography podcasts are free to download for a regular fix of encouragement. They are definitely some of the best photography podcasts I have come across to date.

Free Video Podcasts For Photographers

1. Chase Jarvis Photography IPod / IPhone edition – These podcasts include behind the scene video footage of how award winning creates his images. Podcasts include: High Speed Photography, Packing Photography Gear, High Speed Strobed Sequences.

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2. Within The Frame Podcasts – Watch and listen as photographer David duChemin critiques images that members of Peachpit’s Within the Frame flickr group have posted. Learn his best tips including: composition, landscape depth, use of lines and balance within a photograph, use of color, enhancing images with plugins, evoking emotion, lighting and much more.

Download full free 20 podcasts from Peachpit

3. Pixel Perfect (Large Quicktime) – Learn Photoshop and Illustrator tips from digital artist Bert Monroy. Podcasts include: Color management, skin softening, moonlit landscapes.

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4. 10 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips – Get a weekly dose of Photoshop Lightroom tips for digital photographers including: importing RAW+ JPEG’s into Lightroom, merging multiple Lightroom catalogs, sharpening workflow, tips for laying out prints, saving files between Lightroom and Photoshop and much more.

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5. Photo Walkthrough – 31 quality video podcast tutorials on post processing photographs.

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Free Audio Podcasts For Photographers

Depth of Field with Matt Brandon- Listen to humanitarian and world/travel photographer Matt Brandon, as he talks about the lives and adventures of working photographers from around the world including: David duChemin, Matt Brandon and Gavin Gough.

Download 8 episodes from Peachpit

2. Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor – Includes both audio and video podcasts. Non tech, short tips you can put into action straight away. Includes tips on wedding photography, prime lenses, light, preparing for exhibitions, focus rings, Q&A’s and much more.

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3. The Candid Frame A Photography Podcast – Interview podcast where you’ll be inspired by the thoughts of established and emerging photographers including: Nadine Brown, Dane Sanders, Dan Winters and others.

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4. Martin Bailey Photography Podcast – One of my favorite podcast subscriptions, includes tips like indoor portraits, ambient light, interviews, assignments, fine art prints, IPhone apps for photographers, camera gear and equipment and much more.

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5. TPN Digital Photography Show – Digital photography tips and tricks. Useful and lighthearted look at digital photography.

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Free photography PDF ebooks

Here are 3 useful O’Reilly PDF files for photographers to download. They are not the full text, however are still useful in the chapters that they do offer and are definately worth the download.

Note: You will need a copy of Adobe PDF reader to view the ebooks you download.

Digital Photography Expert Techniques

Professional Tips for Using Photoshop & Related Tools to Enhance Your Digital Photographs.

Here is a PDF download that covers chapter 3 of O’Reilly’s Digital Photography Expert Techniques. The chapter is useful in that it discusses:

Using Photoshop file browser
Using image management programs
Making accurate correction to your photographs
Keeping original photographs and images in tact
Using layers
Minimizing duplicate files
Using special names
How to maintain your photographs file information
Archiving your photographs

The PDF file is a 6.85MB download: Click here to download ‘Digital Photography Expert Techniques’

If you find this chapter useful, you can purchase the full text from Amazon.

Photoshop CS2 RAW

Using Adobe Camera Raw, Bridge, and Photoshop to Get the Most out of Your Digital Camera

This PDF download offers chapter 7 for photographers to read for free. Chapter contents include:

About noise
Using camera RAW to reduce noise in your photographs
How to use Photoshops reduce noise filter
About chromatic aberrations
Reducing chomatic aberrations with Photoshops lens correction filter
Diminishing or adding vignetting

The PDF file is a 3.86MB download: Click here to download ‘Photoshop CS2 RAW’

If you find this chapter useful, you can purchase the full text from Amazon.

Digital Photography Pocket Guide

This download offers chapter 3 of O’Reilly’s Digital Photography Pocket Guide (1st edition). It covers tips and trips for shooting and sharing your photographs.

The PDF file is a 2.09Mb download: Click here to download ‘Digital Photography Pocket Guide’.

If you find this chapter useful, you can purchase the full 3rd edition of O’Reilly Digital Photography Pocket Guide from Amazon.