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Beginners photography Magazine?


any best ones to get for a beginners who is starting out in photography

IMHO it is very hard to learn anything from magazines. They simultaneously assume total ignorance as well as basic competance. I'd say steer clear of magazines unless you know that an issue covers a subject you're interested in.

You might want to try a book on basic photography; just make sure you get one that tells you how to use a camera and the mechanics of photography and not just the art.

If you have a Nikon camera then go to:

http://www.nikonians.org/forums/

It's free and you'll learn as much as you care to. If you don't shoot Nikon then I doubt you'll find anything anywhere near as helpful as the Nikonians forum but other brands DO have message boards.

Practical photography is a good one. Buy the one's that concentrate more on the actual PHOTOS than equipment. The technique matters, not the camera.

Popular Photography
Outdoor Photographer
PC Photo
National Geographic (Of course, NG is not a photography magazine per se, but contains great photograpy by top photographers.)

You'll need a basic book or two on beginning photography as well. I always recommend "Understanding Exposure", by Bryan Peterson.

http://www.photolife.com/
http://www.photoed.ca/
http://www.popphoto.com/americanphoto/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

The other ones are mostly camera ads.

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I don't know anything about magazines but i can give you some very important and famous photographers' names and you can have a look at the photos they took - just to improve creativity..

Henry Cartier Bresson
Sebastio Salgado
Robert Capa

http://www.artphotogallery.org/02/artpho...

IMO you'll be better off buying a couple of books first.

"Hands-On Digital Photography" by George Schaub

"How Digital Photography Works, 2nd. Edition by Ron White

You can read reviews of them at shutterbug.com. They were in the Dec. 2007 issue.

My personal choice in photography magazines is Shutterbug. I've had a subscription for years.

Start with a book - mags re-hash the same old stuff all the time but they rarely cover things like exposure latitudes and print windows... you need the basic building blocks in place to learn effectively - and in the right order if you're not going to waste a lot of time.

Try JPG magazine for good how-to articles. For inspiration, try a quality photo magazine such as Lenswork.

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