B&H Photo Video A well-established retail center that caters to photo, video and audio professionals. B&H offers high-end new and used gear, as well as books and tutorials.  

Black and White World The allure of classic black and white photography is celebrated in the pages of this tech-minded site. Part of the site is devoted to digital work; there are all kinds of tips for working digital magic on monochrome and a good selection of YouTube how-to videos. Although film photography appears be dying a slow death as the digital revolution thunders on, this would definitely be the place to come to if classic black and white film photography were ever to stage a comeback. This site is a great knowledge repository for many things dealing with the art of shooting and developing pictures. There are series of excellent tutorials from how to build a darkroom, to intermediate do’s and dont’s, to advanced darkroom techniques, including instruction in some early photo processing techniques. Black and White World also helps to keep the film flame burning by hosting an online photo supply store that features film and paper along with the usual digital gear.  

CNET For the alert shopper, a site that specializes in a wide variety of electronics reviews, including digital cameras. New offerings are reviewed, rated, ranked and compared. They take the business of reviewing seriously: prices at various online stores for reviewed items are helpfully displayed, followed by customer satisfaction reviews for the stores. 

Committee to Protect Journalists – Journalist Assistance There have been so many recent cases of journalists being attacked, imprisoned and even murdered that the Committee to Protect Journalists is clearly a much need voice, one that helps defend freedom of the press by helping to keep journalists safe. Beyond CPJ’s material support to imperiled journalists and advocacy for imprisoned and missing reporters all over the globe, the Committee offers what amounts to a survival guide for correspondents in dangerous circumstances called On Assignment: Covering Conflicts Safely, A Guide for Reporting in Hazardous Situations. The guide (available on the site in PDF form) goes into frighteningly specific detail about how journalists can protect themselves (where to get helmets and body armor) and how to minimize risks in conflict zones. This is certainly an excellent resource for foreign correspondents and others, but it also gives the rest of us a sense of the enormous risks journalists regularly take to get the story out.  

Consumer Reports This page offers a run-down of camera ratings and reviews—for film and digital, as well as camcorders—from Consumer Reports. This well-respected publication, run by the Consumers Union, tests all products in its rigorous in-house testing laboratory and also surveys subscribers to arrive at its ratings. It gives each product an overall rating within its category, as well as side-by-side ratings for various features and pricing info. Online access to reviews is via paid subscription only.  

Darkroom Source - Rentals A useful portal site that features listings for darkroom rentals in North America and Europe.  

Digital Photography Review- buying guide Digital Photography offers an amazing helpful system for efficient camera shopping. The “Buying Guide” invites shoppers to choose their preferred camera features, and provides comparison results that clearly display the each camera’s attributes. The results include links to gear discussion forums, owner opinions and comparative pricing for online shopping. 

Digital Photography Review- side by side Another useful feature of DPR’s “Buying Guide” is the side-by-side comparison: Select the cameras you are considering and the system compares their characteristics, prices and owner satisfaction reports.  

DSLR Blog This blog has recently been taken over by a new editor and the focus had shifted to providing “resources for aspiring photographers,” which includes this Photographer’s Resource Directory page. Blog editor Erick Danzer manages to be both the advice guru and the empathetic fellow traveler on the road to becoming a professional photographer. Listings in the Resource Directory are researched and vetted paid entries in categories that include photo processing, software, equipment, photo websites and education.  

Investigative Reporters and Editors Investigative journalists are a vital component of a free press, and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) has long supported this work of by providing professional journalists with community, resources and advocacy. IRE’s site features a welcome job center that not only displays recent job posting s but also links to journalism fellowships, scholarships and awards. The IRE site also offers links to conferences, workshops, scholarship opportunities and a job center as well as an extensive resource center.  

Light Impressions Direct A recognized source for fine archival storage, display and presentation materials for negatives, transparencies, CDs, photographs, artwork and documents, Light Impressions counts the Getty Museum, the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum among its customers. 

Photo Techniques Magazine For serious amateurs and working professionals honing their skills, Photo Techniques Magazine offers its print and digital editions as a source for tips, techniques and solutions for better photographs. Content includes news, tips, product reviews, contests and galleries of work by “serious photographers.” Both the print and online editions are available by subscription. 

Photo.Net Camera Reviews A community site for photographers that offers critiques, discussion forums, an online gallery, educational essays and camera reviews. The reviews, written by working photographers, are often fairly lengthy and entertaining meditations on gear, illustrated with demonstration shots by the authors. 

Photography Review A site dedicated to gear, Photography Review brings together a community of amateur and professional photographers who share experience and opinions through reviews and find resources for comparative shopping honing skills through and Camera reviews, digital camera reviews, and photography community. 

Teaching Photo Teaching Photo describes itself this way: TeachingPhoto.com is a web site for and by photography teachers. Very true, the content does includes the expected articles on issues in photography education, but there is much here for the rest of us too. There are pieces exploring the different ways that we interact with photography (photo booths!), personal stories of experience, reminiscence and discovery from photo teachers from around the country, interviews with artists, exhibition reviews, and “spotlights” on the work of photography non-profits. This online publication provides many new ways for teachers to share their knowledge.  

Vision Project The source of a lot of outstanding documentary work, Vision Project describes itself as an organization dedicated to the development of documentary photography, investigative journalism, multimedia and education. VP is invested in a number of social issues and, bringing together the talents of photographers, journalists, academics, educators and web and multi-media experts, it uses photography to support the work of groups such as Medecins Sans Frontières, Global Vision, the Hunger Project, International Rice Research Institute and the Music Therapy Institute. Relying on the power and influence of well-constructed photo documentary to get the message out, Vision Project publishes the work in their online galleries, and the excellent online journal Witness, and makes the material available for other publications, exhibitions, education programs, seminars, lectures and workshops, and for research purposes. Vision Project seems to be very busy doing the groundwork to increase visual literacy and proficiency in an era when, more than ever, images can change everything.