MrBob
Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama
RodeoMan wrote:
Yes, it was if you want to improve your photography, it was more about getting right with yourself rather than getting better equipment. He would include a personal example from his own experience to illustrate his point. Thanks for reminding me of him.
I used to really anticipate " outdoor Photography " every month.
DWU2
Loc: Phoenix Arizona area
Early in this post, I said, "In the US, photography magazines are a dying breed. Do you have a library card? If so, you can set up your phone or tablet or PC with the "Libby" app, and you can have free access to numerous photography mags, mostly from the UK and Australia."
I thought the concept might be more concrete if I listed the photo mags I have free access to via Libby:
- Aperture
- Photo Review
- Outdoor Photography
- Digital Camera User
- Artdocs
- Photography Masterclass
- Photography Week
- Amateur Photographer
- Digital Camera World
- Digital Photographer
- Smart Photography
- Australian Photography
- Photoshop User
- Lens
- PhotoPlus
DWU2 wrote:
Early in this post, I said, "In the US, photography magazines are a dying breed. Do you have a library card? If so, you can set up your phone or tablet or PC with the "Libby" app, and you can have free access to numerous photography mags, mostly from the UK and Australia."
I thought the concept might be more concrete if I listed the photo mags I have free access to via Libby:
- Aperture
- Photo Review
- Outdoor Photography
- Digital Camera User
- Artdocs
- Photography Masterclass
- Photography Week
- Amateur Photographer
- Digital Camera World
- Digital Photographer
- Smart Photography
- Australian Photography
- Photoshop User
- Lens
- PhotoPlus
Early in this post, I said, "In the US, photo... (
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Pretty impressive. Thanks
Rangeƒinder is good if you want the business side more than the creative side. I was getting the printed version but have switch to the e version to conserve space in my library.
I will try to get a few. Thanks for the list.
There seems to be far fewer magazines of all types in print these days. In New Zealand, most of the bookshops have long closed down now. In my city there are now only three bookshops left. Two are chains and one is independent. One of the chain stores book and magazine range has dwindled a lot from the old days, it now sells a lot of other stuff instead, such as chocolate and junk items. In New Zealand we still have one NZ photography magazine being published in print. Or we still did as of about a year ago at least (I don't go shopping up town very often).
I have subscribed to some (free) online digital photography magazines, but they seem to come and go too. And I have had my own photos published in one NZ photo magazine a few times, however, that one closed, then a new owner took over and revived it, then they made it more difficult, so I gave up on it, and then they closed it down about a year ago. Seems most people now use things like youtube and dedicated photography websites instead for their photography, photoshop tricks, and gear reviews.
Even free books are hard to give away now. My dad passed away Sep 2023 and he had a massive collection of very good hard-cover car books. I advertised widely to give them away for free and 3 or 4 people came and took away a handful. The rest of dad's books remained though, but a charity shop took them away in the end.
I have quite a lot of photography books and magazines. However, my magazines are all rather old now as I don't bother with print magazines anymore, and the books are mostly given to me as gifts these days. I also buy some secondhand photo books sometimes too though, at Red Cross book sale. One secondhand book I like in particular is about composition in photography and it cost me $2 at Red Cross. It's an old book, but composition is composition and that does not really change. And let's face it, composition is what most photographers actually struggle with. Learning to use your gear is the easy part.
I have photo books on all sorts, from Street Photography to Flash Photography to Nude Photography and lots more. And I have a lovely big book called GettyImages. You don't need too many books and magazines at the end of the day though really - I probably have too many! Your local library might also be a good source of photo books and magazines. I use my local library every now and then and they have a jolly good range. It saves cluttering up the house with too many owned books and magazines!
P.S. The New Zealand photo magazine is called D-Photo. And it is one of the best photo mags I have come across.
And it seems that it is indeed still in print.
Website:
https://dphoto.co.nz/And you can subscribe to the free newsletter.
While we're on the topic, I have a bunch (12+) Photoshop CS5 books, including CS5 Bible. All excellent, but I've deep in Affinity Photo. If you are using CS5 and want to "stay there", and become an expert, these would be excellent books If anyone would like to have these, I would only ask that you pick up the cost of shipping via UPS. Other wise, I'll need to toss them out. Anyone interested?
Bill
elliott937 wrote:
While we're on the topic, I have a bunch (12+) Photoshop CS5 books, including CS5 Bible. All excellent, but I've deep in Affinity Photo. If you are using CS5 and want to "stay there", and become an expert, these would be excellent books If anyone would like to have these, I would only ask that you pick up the cost of shipping via UPS. Other wise, I'll need to toss them out. Anyone interested?
Bill
Darn! I still use CS5. But shipping to NZ is too much.
New Zealand?? Our USPS services here in St. Louis is the worse to be found anywhere, other wise I'd offer to take the books, boxed up, to them. But you'd never see them. USPS loses nearly everything.
elliott937 wrote:
New Zealand?? Our USPS services here in St. Louis is the worse to be found anywhere, other wise I'd offer to take the books, boxed up, to them. But you'd never see them. USPS loses nearly everything.
Crikey.
Last year I posted a box of the world's best Easter Eggs (Made in New Zealand) to a lady in USA. (I went to school with her, and she was a ballerina back in those days.) The postage cost about four times more than the Easter Eggs cost me, from memory. They did get to her though. I know they did because she ate the lot without sharing them with anyone else (they are that good), and she sent pics of them back to me. And she even kept the plain brown paper wrapping that I sent them in, strangely.
Sports Illustrated is gone...
The younger generation will not know what a rotary dial is, or call a friend from a phone booth, understand a typewriter, rewind an audio tape, watch and then hear a cash register drawer open, understand what a vinyl disk is, or enjoy the artistic full size cover...
now no longer want or experience opening an edited magazine...
AI, digital phones, and mass disinformation will change the world we live in. Not all is bad, but I have to say I never seem to see children outside at play on a snow day.
I do see many in the malls glued to their cell phones with most moments in complete silence... between sessions of selfies...
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