What are good resources for a beginning photographer?

Question

What are good resources (tutorials/books/videos/etc) for a beginning photographer?

Keep in mind that this is for a beginning photographer, who has recently moved from a point-and-shoot to an entry-level DSLR, and is interested in digging deeper into photography in general.

Examples of good topics for the resources to cover:

• what's aperture?, and other camera basics
• color temperature and lighting
• composition and visualization
• etc.

Answer 1

Try http://kelbytv.com/ for some great video tutorials.

also Photography Basics to understand the fundamentals.

I will link to similar questions on this site that have some resources as well

Should be enough in these resources:

• http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tips
• http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/1557/good-books-to-learn-photographic-composition-from
• http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/learning

Answer 2

I find the tutorials of Cambridge in Colour very useful.

Answer 3

This site is actually a good place to begin learning!

Specifically, there are several tags (post topics) that cover a lot of the basic information, and if you can't find what you need, ask away and you'll probably get an answer.

Beginner tags:

• Photography Basics
• Camera Basics

In fact, all of the topics in the question are well-covered under:

• aperture
• camera-basics
• color-temperature
• lighting
• composition
• visualization

And, for "etc" — that's what Ask a Question is for. New and beginning photographers should do a lot of that, and we'll all do our best to help.

This doesn't mean it's the whole world or that other resources aren't recommended — in fact, many specific answers do (and should) point to external sites, or books, or videos, or people. But here is an excellent beginning resource.

Answer 4

try these:- photoblog for inspiration

• http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
• http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/
• http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/
• http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/
• http://www.stuckincustoms.com/

tips

• http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/
• http://www.luminous-landscape.com/index.shtml
• http://www.digital-photography-school.com/
• http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=38/14993&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=24062
• http://www.tmelive.com/

Online magazine

• http://www.burnmagazine.org/
• http://www.blur-magazine.com/
• http://www.exposure-magz.com/

Everything you want to about flash photography:-

• http://strobist.blogspot.com/

Answer 5

There is a another nice set of ten structured photography lessons by Jodie Coston over at morguefile.

Answer 6

BBC Wildlife photography masterclass is a good guide. It is a guide to wild life photography in 10 parts.
BBC Photography Masterclass

Answer 7

Digital Photography School has plenty of tutorials ranging from basic to advanced. Have a look at their list of tutorials for beginners.

I'd also recommend just getting out there and trying stuff out! Nothing will help you learn photography better than experimenting with the camera, then sharing the results on sites like flickr and deviantart.

Have fun! :)