5 PDF e-books on photograpy techniques completely free. They don't look too bad, either.
Direct download links are:
10 - ways to improve your photography
10 More - ways to improve your photography
Forget Mugshots, 10 Steps To Better Portraits
you can either right click & save as PDF, or open in browser.
Just downloaded one of them…
34 pages… just a glossy brochure… hardly any content in it…
Yeah, the Craft and Vision stuff isn't for the completely clueless, it's as much about the "why" as the "how."
Thanks altomic.
First four are still free.
However there is now a $5 charge for "Forget Mugshots, 10 Steps To Better Portraits".
Got all 5 and debated whether to waste the few MB of storage keeping them. Can't believe people would pay for these. The advice is so insubstantial. There is much better material available online and in book form.
Any suggestions for newbies?
These three Udemy courses are pretty good, and currently on sale:
https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=raffe
I've not done this course but it seems highly regarded:
https://www.udemy.com/photography-masterclass-your-complete-…
Different people learn differently I learnt from books for the beginner stuff. John Freeman, Tom Ang, John Shaw all good writers.
Some of these books I wouldn't give to beginners.
http://photodoto.com/photography-books-for-beginners/
If you want to do it on the cheap (legally!) there are some good freebies out there but it can be hard wading through garbage to find them when you don't know what you're looking for.
This introduces a lot of concepts quickly but is a bit shallow
http://expertphotography.com/a-beginners-guide-to-photograph…
Skimmed this and it looks okay but a bit heavy on the editing and lots of references to film.
https://pyango.wikispaces.com/file/view/19442574-Absolute-Be…
This looks okay too
http://bestphotolessons.com/
Haven't checked this one but looks promising.
http://lifehacker.com/5815742/basics-of-photography-the-comp…
As you get advanced it gets easier and some topics can be handled right away if you're interested.
Canon EF Lenswork III (google it) is available online for free and is good whether or not you have a Canon camera. Just ignore the lens advertising.
Nikon do good guides for using SB-800 and SB-910 flash that are good and the general ideas are applicable. For more info on flash though I'd look at
http://neilvn.com/tangents/flash-photography-techniques/
and for off camera flash strobist 101 and 102 courses here
http://strobist.blogspot.com.au/
I also like video courses but find that the photographers tend to ramble too much at times making it time consuming.
Good advice.
I'd also add the free Martin Bailey Podcast if you prefer audio. Go to mbp.ac to download.
3 and 4 are are not direct downloads. They are fishing for email addresses.
These belong in the freeware forums