A new and interesting concept for photo competition: Photo Battle. Photobattle.me is a site dedicated to facing off photos in pairs. Statistics are kept, inspiration is rampant and fun ensues. Read on to check out an overview of the site.

In the past week, we have been wrapping up 2009 and looking forward into 2010.  We’ve focused on small details and talked about looking back and reviewing our own works.  We’ve looking deep into the future and made some predictions.  But now it’s time to talk about our relationship with you – how Shutter Photo’s [...]

Recently, we discovered that our subscriptions page was broken.  It is now fixed.  Many of our faithful readers were able to follow us on RSS feeds, but were not able to get to the form where they could subscribe via e-mail.  If you were one such individual and if you prefer e-mail subscriptions, you can [...]

Just wanted to let everyone know that for the time being, we had to take down our Glossary. It’s a plugin for Wordpress, and it has been giving us some trouble, especially in our RSS feeds. So we decided to take it down until we fix the problem. We’re looking to remedy the problem – either by fixing the plugin or replacing it entirely – as we feel our Glossary is a useful feature to many beginning photographers that visit our site.

If anyone has glossary plugins to recommend, please feel free to mention them.

As always, our goal is to serve you all as best as we possibly can. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

Many of us have been talking of doing photo projects for the new year. For example, I will be doing a Photo 365 Project called No Words. Other’s have mentioned casually that they were doing similar projects – either in comments here at Shutter Photo, on Flickr or via Twitter. I of course would like to follow as many of your projects as possible, and I’m sure others would like to do the same. So if you are doing a Photo 365 project, or something similar, reply to to this post and tell us where we can find it. Feel free to mention your blogs and websites as well.

Who says you have to pay for the best software? Not the Open Source community, who has created one of the best photo editing tools which also happens to be a free download: GIMP. To learn more about GIMP, read on.

A few weeks ago, I reviewed a book by Jon Canfield, Camera Raw 101.  When it came to the review, I of course focused on what was in the book and what was presented to me, the reader.  But after I completed the review, I started poking around his website, Jon Canfield Photography; the book [...]

This week, we find a great online Photography Journal, FILE Magazine. Will it be a source of inspiration for your next photography project? Find out more in this week’s Found – read on.

DeviantArt is an art community that has flown under the radar for many years. It is home to some inspiring photographers and other inspirational sources. Read on to learn more about this incredible community.

Bert Stephani, an inspiring photographer from Belgium, has a new website. Read on to learn about what inspiration and wisdom you can draw from Stephani’s site and mind, and to find out why you should be watching his work.

Looking to learn more about artificial flash and strobe photography? Perhaps you need an online resource like the widely acclaimed Strobist Blog. Read on to learn about what the site has to offer.

Jim Goldstein is always looking out for the rest of us when it comes to the protection of our creative rights.  As if you weren’t already questioning the Facebook terms of service with photos, Jim shows us yet another area that you need to ‘opt out’ of in his recent article:  Your Photos Now Featured [...]

Tired of the traditional photo communities filled with poor quality snapshots? ALTphotos is an online photo gallery that has more similarities with a high end art gallery in the city. Read on to learn more about this incredibly inspiring community site.

Just happened upon a stock photo site I’ve never seen before:  Fotolia.  Haven’t played with it much yet, but it seems to be about the norm.  Commissions are 30% for unranked and non-exclusive shots, which is fairly typical, but shots are much cheaper than anywhere else (as low as $1).  Quality bar isn’t set too [...]