I guess that probably many of you have visited photography.com website, because it's apparently the first website on the first page of Google's search engine for the word photography. For taking a look at the Main page or homepage of photography.com Internet site, we can see that photography.com has a lot to offer for photographers and contains a lot of information about digital photography which many of you will find very interesting.
Because the website has a lot of information to offer, it is built in a very simple manner. You won't find here any large images, which cover half of the website width. On the top part of the photography website, you can find a welcome message and a box which shows you the recent articles written by professional photographers and editors of photography.com. Underneath it is one of my favorite sections called photography.com video library. Inside the section, you can see featured videos, which are actually photography video lessons and tutorials about digital photography, whether it's still photography or video photography. You can click on the link saying full photography video library, in order to access the full section of the videos.
Underneath the video library square, you can find a summary of the latest news from the photography world. Underneath the section, you can see the recent forum threads which were written by registered users of the photography.com website. Furthermore, you can find popular galleries, which were taken from online websites, which are hosted of photography.com servers using the imagePro website builder application. We'll soon talk about that application, what it gives to photographers and how you can use it in order to share your artistic photographs other members in photography.com community.
Articles
First we want to check out the articles' section. So we click the articles' tab on the top to get to the articles' page. There are many photography articles, and it's by far, one of the most comprehensive article databases on the net. There are currently eight categories: type of photography, equipment, basic concepts, history, color and light, digital photography, taking photos, techniques. If you put your mouse cursor on every one of them, you can see a longer list of sub-categories, which are extracted from the top category. For example, if you put your mouse cursor over digital photography top category, you can see sub-categories like organizing of digital images, storing digital photos, clip art, compression, digital compression of image files, special effects full digital photography and many others. So just by looking at that, we can see that photography.com is one of the most comprehensive and largest resources full digital photography information.
So you can see it is actually very clear how to navigate and find the specific information you need to get in photography.com article section. So we have decided to see how professional the articles are. So we have clicked the article called storing digital photos. The article was professionally written and a video was even attached to it. The more and more I read, the more I get excited in reading more information on this incredible website. I actually prefer this than buying a book about digital photography.
News
Okay, let's have a look on the photography.com news section, to see what it got to offer. The most important part in any new section in any website, is that it should be updated regularly with new headlines and official announcements, so the user or the photographer can stay up to date with the latest technology developments and information about new photography gear.
I didn't expect photography.com to disappoint me in this matter, and it didn't. You can see up-to-date news about photo editing software, digital photography book recommendations, new camera releases, digital photography equipment, tutorials and much more. It should be syndicated with RSS link, but they can see it anywhere.
ImagePro Online Site Builder
Now onto the imagePro section. What imagePro section offers, is for photographers to build their own imagePro site of photography.com. So many of you, we don't know how to build a website or program and design website, imagePro site builder is just for you. By hosting your images on imagePro site builder, you will be automatically getting a sub-domain under photography.com, pretty cool.
Of course imagePro site builder offers many features and benefits full photographers, which search to host image galleries online. Some of the features are: multiple portfolio templates, unlimited photo storage, unlimited traffic (that's cool), the option to personalize the site name as we said earlier, the ability to apply elegant photo slideshows with multiple folders and much more.
The most important thing about imagePro is that you are automatically become a member of a large online community what photographers from all around the world discussed photography, see each other's galleries and share their knowledge and experience with other members. Consider that this is a paid service. For more information of prices and how much its online service costs, please visit photography.com imagePro section. I can just tell you that there are many professional photographers would take part in this large online community. It is much more professional and professionally looking than Yahoo's Flickr online photo sharing community, but this is just my opinion.
Stock Photos
Now let's see if there is something interesting in the stock photos' category. In the stock photos' section, you will get to see and use an online search engine, which allows you to search millions of stock photography images on the Internet from various resources. So it is very cool, because this list is always being updated with new photographs the stock photos are also categorized into several categories like architecture, birds, cars, children photos, fashion art photos, fine art stock photos, travel, underwater etc.
Photography Video Lessons
This is probably the most engaging section in photography.com. Because there's nothing like videos in order to express, teach and learn photography lessons. There are three categories: photography, digital, film making. I think it's a kind of new section, because there aren't a lot of videos and side. Not that I compare you to photography.com video section, but it will probably be a lot better in the future.
A photography.com you can also find online forums and the shop, which in the shop you can buy digital cameras, digital camera lenses, camcorders, accessories, flashes, computers and electronics.
Summary
So in my opinion, I find photography.com a great place to learn photography for both beginners and advanced photographers alike. The most interesting section, and I can say important, is the articles' section. I've never seen a photography website with so many professionally written articles. I highly recommend that you visit photography.com if you haven't visited the site before and browse through all the articles, and I'm sure that you find something that you haven't learned before. And for those of you who don't have experience in managing blogs or creating online websites, just make sure that you take a look at the imagePro site building utility that photography.com offers. Good luck!
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