Appendix A. Recommended Resources

This appendix offers suggestions of various Web sites, magazines, and books that I believe are good resources for digital photographers. I hope you will find them to be good resources as well.

Web Sites

What follows is a selection of Web sites that will help you learn more about photography, travel, or posting your images online for browsing over the Internet. Many of the best sites are related to print magazines of the same name.

www.pbase.com

This is one of the best hosting sites for serious photographers. It goes well beyond the album sites to provide true online photo galleries — and a lot more. There's a search engine to enable visitors to search for photographs by using specific keywords. The site makes it easy to upload batches of photos. You can link galleries that you create. So if you start a gallery showing off your 2006 vacation photos, you can subdivide it into Spain, France, Italy, or other appropriate categories. PBase is even a terrific information resource. It publishes a magazine compiled entirely from the efforts of members. The premiere issue highlighted the work of two photographers and provided some useful tips on sensor cleaning. Of course, something this good isn't free, but the fees are reasonable, with as much as 900MB of storage available for $60 a year.

www.smugmug.com

This is another hosting site with a modest fee ($39.95 per year for the standard subscription), but with claimed unlimited photo storage. If you plan to shoot ...

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