A couple of my favorite websites and
why I watch them religiously.
I’m back in the middle of pre-production again this week, prepping two editorials for Fall Fashion issues for two different magazines. Stay tuned for details. The more I find out, the more I’ll let you in on the shoots! But in the meantime, I really want to share with you some amazing websites that are chocked full of very useful information. These are websites that I either follow every day, that I’m subscribed to or that I visit frequently. The people that run these sites aren’t friends of mine, I don’t know them, most sites I’m not linked to so this isn’t some shameless promotional post with all my “blog buddies” getting a shout out. These are websites that I use to help my own photography career. So let’s get started, shall we? I’ve listed the link and why I favor it so much. And do me and your other fellow readers a favor: list your favorite link or two in the comment section. I think it’s very important to share knowledge and information. Thanks!
- Fashionista.com I love these guys! I keep up on the latest trends in the fashion industry, which is SO important as a fashion photographer, with their latest posts. The thing I love about fashionista.com is their writers! This is not your average, run of the mill, dry and bland fashion news reporting. I do not know any of their staff but I can tell that they love their jobs, they LOVE fashion and they know their shit! I trust their input and their feedback. They weed out the useless boring updates and inform on only what really needs to be reported on.
- Style.com Personally, folks, this site is where I find out what all the designers are doing. When I hear a stylist suggest a designer, say, Gareth Pugh, and I can’t bring a visual picture into my head of what Gareth has done, I go to Style.com, enter Gareth Pugh in the search window and then click on all of Gareth’s shows. It’s a very useful resource site to find any designer and their collections. Important when communicating with your stylists and editors.
- Lightroom-Blog.com Okay, I know Sean McCormack through Twitter, but this guy runs the most comprehensive and informative site on lightroom out there. And he’s been doing it for a few years. While I save the real digital tech stuff to my pro team, don’t think for a minute that I turn a blind eye to all of it. Of course not, I sneak and read what I can on the digital medium. This site lays it out so well that even someone like me who sort of still resists digital can navigate my way around the site and find information that actually makes sense and helps me.
- DPS.com Otherwise known as Digital Photography School. It’s a full blown information HEAVY site for all things digital photography. How to shoot better portraits, how to market your wedding photography business, how to use photoshop plug ins. I mean, you want to know about anything digital photography, go there. I visit this site just to learn MORE about my medium. It’s constantly about learning! It never ends. DPS.com is a great resource for learning!
- Fashion.net This site has everything! It’s Super Information Fashion Highway. Seriously I don’t know why I’m listing them, they refuse to link to my blog, but hey, I’m being honest here. They have links upon links. To magazines, blogs, designers, books, modeling agencies, fashion weeks around the world, photo reps, etc. etc. They really are a great library of sites for fashion photography and it’s business.
- X-Equals.com Another great site chock full of information on digital post production. Brandon covers everything from best tips for archiving to the latest photoshop feature and getting around the complexity of it all. Brandon is a virtual friend. We have never met but I wouldn’t endorse a site that I didn’t believe in as well. I visit plenty of websites, I don’t need to share them all.
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Still impressive as usual.
You are the biggest inspiring person who has helped me so much to reaching my goal to work in the fashion photography industry. 
keep up the good stories. 
Thank you for sharing this info and knowledge……with us : )
As always valuable information. I’m adding a link for those of us that do our own digital work. This link is to adobe’s photography section with lightroom and photoshop e-seminars and others interesting e-seminars
http://adobeeseminars.com.au/ondemand/view/photography
Excellent link, Jon! Definitely a good link to bookmark! Thanks
<3 ya!
The thing that distinguishes this blog from the vast majority of blogs that have a focus on photography is how concepts that are covered here are presented in a way that makes them valuable to a photographer regardless of their specific focus. My area of interest to this point has been in the area of nature, landscapes, still life, and scenic photography. People are rarely included in my photos, especially not people photographed in a way that is in any way related to the fashion industry. What Melissa does is create art with a camera and her subjects are often people but the concepts are often transferrable to any subject that you might be trying to photograph. The key is being open to what Melissa is saying about the art of photography.
Another excellent post Melissa, thanks for all you do.
Good sites you have linked Melissa.
One of my favourites is http://www.retouchpro.com
Is a forum of postproduction and photoshop high end techniques.
Another great suggestion! Thanks, Diego!
Thank you Diego for the comment on Retouchpro.com definitely a great site chocked full of info for the aspiring photographer. People had asked me on my retouching post if I had any resources, all I could say was lynda.com but this is another great retouching resource!
Excellent links Melissa. Every so often I go back to http://strobist.blogspot.com especially Lightning 101 section.
i want to include my thanks with gerry’s comment to melissa, I love this blog ’cause is not just a blog with super duper new things, its just a blog of “ok, i know this, and I share this with you, i hope tht would be helpfull, and be a better one”, that sense of humble force me to see everyday if something new is on this blog :).
PS: thnx Diego for the tip (Y).
Thank you for sharing these links!
Thanks for sharing Melissa.
Another vote for the Strobist here. It’s got some amazing information on lighting.
Hello to all ,
Young designers in Australia like to break rules and be ahead of the pack
Here are some great fashion trend and runway reporting sites from Australia they also have great fashion photography in them
hope you all like them
1 2threads.com
2 Thefashionbirdcage.com
3 fashionising.com
4 hbtnstyle.com.au
love to here which ones you like the most
Regards Nigel
Hey Melissa,
Thanks again for sharing
I’ll be bookmarking these and having a goo later.
As far as fave links, for me I use http://strobist.blogspot.com. Quite a bit in fact, but thats mainly coz I’m a newbie at this stuff
They also have some tutorials on there (check out the Lighting 102 archive) which I am slowly working my way through.
Love your posts! Keep up the good work!
Thanks again,
Dave.
Thanks Melissa!
ProPhotoResource.com (that I see you and David will be contributing to) is another excellent site.
Fine choices indeed...
Love the light room blog, I also keep my eyes on your blog, models.com and vman and vwoman, lots of behind the scenes action .. that gets my photo juices flowing!
For info on inspiring shoots, interviews and a quick daily fix of fashion related photography I like http://www.seelike.me and there’s more fashion at http://www.calikartel.com
Thanks for the tips. Keep it up!!
Great to see your post.It is very useful for fashion experts..
Thanks for sharing your inspirations with everyone! Very helpful links. Someone said it above, but I also visit strobist.blogspot.com as well for quick lighting tips.
I would suggest calikartel.com, they work well on indexing fashion shoots.
I visit the other sites you mention but you forgot the most best one http://fashionphotographyblog.com
Hi, I don’t know how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please
I love this site - not only does it give insight, it also give me the confidence to push myself. I have a shoot coming up and I am itching to use what I have learned here!! Thanks!
Cool, especially liked the style.com website, but lightroom-blog.com is also nice
That’s a great post! Thanks for sharing!