Photography & Video
28 bookmarks
Free and open source RAW developers, photo organizers, HDR and panorama tools, EXIF editors and video utilities.
Resources for making films, spanning cinematography tutorials, VFX training channels and production tooling.
The cooperative archive of the most influential documentary photographers alive and dead, plus essays and learning material.
Daily photography news, gear coverage and technique pieces, the most reliable general feed in the space.
The camera database and review archive, with sample galleries and a studio comparison tool no other site matches.
Foundation, magazine and publisher, the institutional center of fine art photography writing and photobooks.
Contemporary photography discovery, portfolio critique and awards, the best place to see what serious photographers are making now.
Deep well of photography criticism, interviews and reprinted essays going back to 2008, heavy on the American documentary tradition.
Planning tool and huge tutorial library for sun, moon and Milky Way positioning, indispensable for landscape and night shooting.
The community hub for film simulation recipes, worth reading even on other systems for how it thinks about color rendering.
Database of what camera, lens and format every film and series was shot on, a genuinely useful reference for matching a look.
Lens comparison tool with side-by-side image quality at any aperture and focal length, the fastest way to settle a glass argument.
The longest-running screengrab archive on the web, leaning hard into arthouse and lesser-known films.
Deep-dive video lessons on film history and technique rather than listicle-style tips.
Community library of free downloadable LUTs for color grading, searchable by look and by target software.
A creative video directory and reference library for filmmakers, animators, and directors, showcasing distinct visual techniques, camera movements, and director styles.
A detailed digital art study on ArtStation showcasing how lighting techniques from classical sculpture can be recreated and analyzed inside 3D rendering software.
A curated digital portfolio entry on ArtStation featuring a collection of detailed portrait studies focusing on lighting, anatomy, and rendering techniques.
Portfolios & Creators
Joel Meyerowitzwww.joelmeyerowitz.comSite of the pioneering street and color photographer, among the first to take color seriously as a fine-art medium.
Archive of the Provoke-era Japanese photographer whose high-contrast grain defined an entire visual language.
Large-format photographer of family, landscape and mortality, with a site presenting the full arc of a career in one place.
Estate site for the pioneer of color photojournalism, whose motion and color work still looks decades ahead of its time.
Estate archive of the Hong Kong master's 1950s and 60s street photography, a masterclass in light, geometry and atmosphere.
Japanese photographer of light, small moments and quiet transcendence, with a site that presents work by book rather than by gallery.
Shared site for two Magnum-caliber street and color photographers, a masterclass in complex frame composition.
Contemporary American landscape and portrait work in the Grays the Mountain Sends tradition, quietly one of the best working today.
Moody, cinematic suburbia-at-night photography with a portfolio as atmospheric as the work itself.
Eric Ritcher – Director / Editorericrichterfilms.squarespace.comPortfolio of a director and editor working across commercials and short film, useful reference for pacing and color.
