My Top 10 Photo Related Websites

As a photographer, there are a number of websites that I visit on a regular basis.  Some are for inspiration, some are for knowledge, and some are just for dreaming (B&H Photo).  Here is my Top 10 list (in no particular order).

10. B&H Photo Video - I am always looking for new gear and not necessarily lenses either.  Modifiers, gobos, etc all make the cut on the website that has everything (including a 5% student discount)

9.  Flickr - Yahoo! Inc's photo sharing site.  In addition to giving you a terabyte of free storage it is a cool place to find all kinds of inspirational images.

8.  500px - another Photo sharing site.  500px allows you to upload 20 images a week with their free account and you have the option to sell the image in their marketplace.  It is also another good place to find some really great images

7.  365project.org - A site dedicated to photo-a-day projects.  I know it sounds easy, but it isn't.

6.  Amazon - I have a Prime membership so Amazon is always my go-to website for shopping, especially for printer inks, fine art papers, and other photography related stuff (and everything else)

5.  Dropbox - Cloud storage site that gives you 2.5 GB of storage for free and it is all synced to any device you have the dropbox software installed on.  Personally I use it as an easy link to send full size copies to models after photo shoots.

4. Copy - Another cloud storage site that gives you 15GB of storage space.  I just found out about this site yesterday.  15GB is ALOT of space and you can get even more free space by referring friends (The link at the bottom of this post is my referral, by using it you get an extra 5GB of space when you sign up.  You don't have to use it, but it would be cool if you did).

3. F-Stoppers - The blog that I read about copy.com on.  Lots of photography and video related articles on this very active website.

2.  Strobist - All about lighting.  If you want to stand out from the masses with DSLRs and high end camera phones, then learn to love light, especially the kind that you can control.

1. POTN Forums - The photography-on-the-net forums have been almost a daily visit for me for the past 3 years.  It is a Canon centric forum, but they don't razz you too bad if you're a Nikon shooter.  There a variety of image forums where you can get critique from amateurs and professionals alike as well as forums on gear, business, and lighting.


Well there you have it.  These are the sites I visit on a regular basis that help keep me plugged into the world of photography.


Links:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
http://500px.com/
http://365project.org/
http://www.amazon.com/
http://www.dropbox.com/
https://copy.com - (With my referral ID so we each get an extra 5GB)
http://fstoppers.com/
http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/