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Canon Digital Photography Forum
www.photography-on-the.net/forum/

This is a user forum for higher end Canon consumer digital cameras, including the G1 and the D30. It is small enough that you get to know the contributors (or at least their online personalities) yet the members have enough talent that the information is genuinely useful. Most of the members own their cameras already, so the topics relate more to techniques and results than to comparisons between various different brands of camera.

There are individual boards for each camera, for software, and general photography techniques, and there are boards where you can post details of your own galleries, or post pictures for criticism.

Run by Pekka Saarinen, photographer and double bass player from Finland.

The Luminous Landscape www.luminous-landscape.com/
Fred Miranda Photography www.fredmiranda.com/

When you research digital photography on the internet, some sites come up again and again. Both of these fall into that category. Excellent advice, tutorials and tips. Fred Miranda is a successful photographer, champion body-builder and model - how jealous am I?!

Photoshop Restoration and Retouching
Katrin Eismann, 2001, QUE Publishing, US$49.99
ISBN 0789723182

This book is specifically targetted at restoring old or damaged images, but so many of the techniques are applicable to general post-processing that this has become my most-referred to book.

Sections cover tone, exposure and colour correction, and lots of stuff about removing the effects of aging on scans of printed photos.

Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Studio Techniques
Ben Willmore, 1999, Adobe Press, US$39.99
ISBN 1-56830-474-9

Since replaced with the version 6.0 issue, this is still a first rate book. Detailed advice on selections, curves, layers and lots of other tekky stuff. The colour correction section is particularly fine.

Mastering Flash Photography
Susan McCartney, 1997, Amphoto Books, CDN$35.95
ISBN 0-8174-4545-5

Just when you think you might be getting somewhere with photography, you buy a flashgun, attach it to your hotshoe, and realize that you have to start learning all over again! Balancing natural and artificial light, dealing with colour casts, reflections, hard and soft shadows, bouncing off walls and ceilings - there's a whole new set of techniques to master.

This down-to-earth book is at exactly the level I need. Plenty of technical advice, plenty of examples (complete with detailed how-I-did-it notes), plenty of pitfalls to avoid. My copy is well thumbed...