Forum Highlights

The discussion pages at the PhotoWalkthrough Flickr group contain lots of great hints and advice on camera equipment, photographic technique and post-processing. The PhotoWalkthrough Distillery provides a categorized list of links to these discussions to make topics of interest a little easier to find. It also provides links to John's video tutorials where appropriate, including the series of tutorials oncomposition.

The PhotoWalkthrough Community
Equipment
Taking Photos
Post-processing
Printing, Publishing and Selling your images
On-line Resources

The PhotoWalkthrough Community

If you're new to the Flickr group, why not introduce yourself at the Introductions thread?

Equipment
	Cameras Dealing with Sensor dust on DSLR cameras.
	Lenses "Do it all" Lens What's a good lens for landscapes? (Need advice again !) Image stabilisation lenses
	Flashes Portrait photography with a flash.
	Studio Lighting Studio Lighting
	Tripods Tripod Help Please !!
	Data Storage Away-from-home storage
	Computers colour calibration Color Space: Uncalibrated Adobe RGB to sRGB conversion problems
	Graphics Tablets Getting started with a tablet
	Printers Inkjets for B&W
	Scanners Do you scan slides? Has the color changed? Tip

Taking Photos
	A bit of philosophy Is photography viewed as art? The Problem with Flickr - a philosophical meandering
	General techniques An explanation of Exposure Bias.
	Landscapes A good lens for landscapes (Need advice again !). Choosing the right aperture for landscape shots. How to achieve the silky water effect.
	Portraits Getting permission: depending on the country and situation you might need a Model release. Portrait photography with a flash. Some great advice on photographing babies and children can be found in the Shooting a baby! thread. See the post from jgarner in particular. In July 2007, n8photo1 asked for some advice on photographing couples. Here's that discussion (tips for couples shots), and the results (Tips on couples Shots: The Results) posted a month later.
	Macro This thread has some great advice on getting started with macro photography: How can I achieve this?
	Locations Here's some advice on taking photographs in challenging situations: Taking Pictures Through The Glass at an aquarium. Concert Photography High Dynamic Range Digital camera sensors have a limited dynamic range response (The Dynamic Range Issue). How do you deal with these situations? (Really wide dynamic range). See also the post-processing notes on correcting for white ballance below.
	Composition Techniques Below are links to PhotoWalkthrough tutorials in which John describes a composition technique. Complementary Colours Tutorial 12, Chapter 3. Creative Cropping Tutorial 13, Chapter 2. Foreground, Middleground and Background Tutorial 13, Chapter 4. Get closer! Tutorial 14, Chapter 6. Grain Tutorial 14, Chapter 1. Leading Lines Tutorial 12, Chapter 1. Negative Space Tutorial 11, Chapter 3. Reduce and Simplify Tutorial 11, Chapter 1. Reflections Tutorial 13, Chapter 5. Repetition Tutorial 11, Chapter 2. Rule of Thirds Tutorial 10, Chapter 3. S-Curves Tutorial 14, Chapter 2. Shallow Depth of Field Tutorial 13, Chapter 3. Vanishing Point Tutorial 11, Chapter 4.

Post-processing
	General Photoshop tips Where to start with Photoshop Keyboard shortcuts Getting started with post-processing
	Philosophy of post-processing When's it Enuff? Set of Rules
	Workflow Image storing, folder structure and Adobe Lightroom Keyword categories non-destructive workflow in photoshop Workflow for print and web output
	Copyright Copyright and protection of your photos
	File formats Initially a discussion on the merits of various file formats, this discussion (JPEG, TIFF - other formats) segued into a discussion on sharpening. Why shoot in RAW format?
	Exporting photos for the web If the colours in your image look all wrong when you view them in a web browser, chances are you need to set the colour space to sRGB on export. See the Browser Challenge discussion.
	Exposure correction If your need to fix an image for under-exposure or want to bring out detail in the shadows, see Can this be fixed in PS? and Adjust Shadow/Highlight.
	Sharpening A discussion on file formats (JPEG, TIFF - other formats) that went on to talk about sharpening. Some further advice on Sharpening.
	Panoramas and Stitching A comparison of Panoramic Stitching Programs. This thread started before Photoshop CS3 was released, which has a much improved stitching function.
	White ballance Correcting an image for incorrect White Balance See also PhotoWalkthrough 55 - Quick Tip 1 which shows how to color correct for skin tones
	NoiseTechniques for reducing noise seems to be a perennial topic. Here, in chronological order, are some discussions: Photoshop Filter Q&A A bunch of noise!!! noise remove noise question
	Black and White Black and white conversion method
	Orton effect Using The Orton Effect to create a soft image.
	Archiving your images Storing Photos Back up! Your Photo Library

Printing, Publishing and Selling your images

On-line resources

Video Lessons For PHOTOSHOP.