Resources for photographers

The Web has a mass of resources that are useful to photographers - many of them free of charge.

Here is a totally random selection of some that I use and can recommend ...

•  Photographers' rights
  Photographers, going about their business perfectly legally, are increasingly being hassled by the police, security guards and others. Our right to take photographs in public places is increasingly under threat.

• Right to Roam
  Where can you wander freely in the UK?

•  Sunrise and sunset times
  Also moonrise and set and other information about the sky. Essential for landscape photographers

•  Panoramas
  How can you get those amazingly wide images?

• Close-up photography (macrophotography)
  For getting photographs of the bee's knees, and other things.

• Pinhole photography
  How to take extraordinary images with the simplest of equipment.

• Making a pinhole camera ...
  ... is easy. Any camera with interchangeable lenses can be turned into one using only an old body cap, a piece of aluminium foil and some tape. Oh .. and a pin. Find out how to do it here.

• Model releases
  If you are trying to sell images of people for commercial purposes you will need a model release for every recognisable face. Here's more information, and where to get release forms. There's also information on the difference between Royalty Free (commercial) and Licenced (editorial) use of images.

• Royalty Free or Licensed?
  What's the difference? A brief guide to the complexities of this minefield.
  

More resources to come shortly.

In the meantime, why not visit Alistair's blog at:
Making Photographs