Adorama [1] offers a a series of phototips to the interested photographer. By now it has 3 parts. The first part [2] took place in the last quarter of 2007, the second part [3] in the 2nd quarter of 2008, and part 3 [4] started in the last quarter of 2008 and is still going on at the time of this writing.

Part I

The tips in the first part are centered around making photos. They cover things like composition, camera location, exposure and shutter speed, how to make most out of your camera and lenses, reading histograms and more. The individual tips are short and easy to read. I’d say they give the reader a good starting point for taking pictures.

Part II

Part II takes a slightly different approach. It groups the tips into topics. One topic per week. It covers topics like low light, sport and action, functions of digital cameras, printing, work flow and more. The individual articles cover a lot of ground and should provide some information for every one.

Part III

Just like part II, part III is grouped into weekly topics. At the time of this writing the series is still in progress, we are at day 86. This time around there is a bit more emphasis on the digital darkroom, some articles about creativity and a fair bit amount of buying advice. My favorite in this group of tips is the topic “Creative camera motion techniques.” I’m not too keen about the buying advice pieces. Since these tips come from a camera store it is understandable and not surprising that they are included, especially since the series started before the holiday season.

Summary

This series of tips will provide the beginning or not so experienced photographer with some good starting points on how to improve the skill of creating photographs. The articles are short and easy to read and provide a base where one if interested can dig deeper.

For the advanced photographer many of the articles are probably not thorough enough. But this group doesn’t seem to be the target for this anyway.

Resources

[1] Adorama Camera – http://www.adorama.com
[2] 100 Photography Tips in 100 Days – Part I
[3] 100 Photography Tips in 100 Days – Part II
[4] 100 Photography Tips in 100 Days – Part III