From: gannet@cftnet.com (Dave) Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm Subject: Re: Photography Magazine Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:46:04 GMT Organization: CFTnet Lines: 135 Message-ID: <527b41$1ng@news.cftnet.com> References: <01bba75a$8ff95d00$24079aca@spnet.rad.net.id> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp230_113.cftnet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 "Juliando" wrote: >He, there...... >Can anybody tell me a good photography magazine ? >And also if there is a especial for outdoor/widlife photography. >Please give me the address, E-mail or home-page. Thanks. >Juliando In the U.S., the two "biggies" are Popular Photography and Petersen's Photographic. Pop Photo is pretty good, but IMO, only a shadow of what Modern Photography used to be. Oh, well, things change. :) Interesting to note that most of the senior editorial staff there is ex-Modern personnel. :) Petersen's Photographic is "OK", but not as good as Pop Photo, IMO. To tell the truth, both are heavily 35mm-oriented, and both are rather short on content in each issue. Still, they only cost about $10 a year to subscribe. Pick up a copy of each on the newstand and see which you like, and then subscribe. They are worth the subscription cost, but probably not the newstand cost. Be sure you buy a magnifying glass to read the ads in the back. :) I believe Pop Photo has a "forum", or whatever they call them, on American Online. You can subscribe to Pop Photo for $10.97 a year to: Popular Photography P.O. Box 51803 Boulder, CO 80323-1803 For outdoors/nature, there are again two "biggies" in the U.S.: Outdoor Photographer and Outdoor and Nature Photography (published quarterly). I like them both (because that's the kind of photography that interests me most), but Outdoor Photographer is probably the better of the two. Both of these are a little less "tech" oriented than the mainstream magazines. Both of them cover "outdoor gear" as well as photography, and I wish they'd stop. Neither one of them is what I would call a "great magazine", but I like magazines and I like nature photography, so... Outdoor Photographer is $10.98 a year to: Outdoor Photographer Box 50174 Boulder, CO 80323-0174 I'm not sure you can subscribe to Outdoor & Nature Photography. I think they're still trying to figure out whether they can make a go of it. Contact them through Shutterbug, below (same publisher), for more info. The "bible" for used photographic equipment is the famous Shutterbug. Personally, I love it, but then I'm an equipment junkie with a taste for old Nikon SLRs. :) -The- place to find used equipment, and I even find a lot of the articles interesting, although many people think their editorial content is terrible. I can't see that it's any worse than about 80% of the other U.S. stuff, and they cover things the others don't. Still, you buy this one for the ads. Web site: http://www.webzene.com/shutterbug/ If you're interested in darkroom/digital manipulation techniques, try to find one called Photo Techniques (formerly Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques). One of my favorites, and worth buying even if you don't have a darkroom. Not all the articles are darkroom-oriented, by any means. Heck, any magazine that has David Vestal as a columnist is worth reading for that alone, IMO. If you're interested in digital photography or image manipulation, look for one called Photo>Electronic Imaging. A little thin, but the only one that stands clearly with one foot in photography and one in electronic imaging. Mostly high-value content. Web site: http://www.peimag.com/ If you're interested in computer art (getting closer to "photography" these days) look for Computer Artist and 3D Artist. I'm sure they both have Web sites, but I don't have them handy. As another poster noted, there is the venerable American Photo. Almost exclusively photojournalism and "high art", very little "techie" stuff. The current month's headline story is "Is Photojournalism Dead?". I'd have to say yes, for the most part, at least in the U.S., and for me this magazine is no longer very relevant for just that reason. Powerful images, though. The "professional's" magazine is Photo District News. Kind of interesting once in awhile, even for serious amateurs. It can expose you to techniques and tools that you will never see in an amateur magazine. Mostly for good reason, you can't afford them. :) How about $45,000 for a hi-res digital back for your view camera? :) Unfortunately, an awful lot of the editorial content is on various legal battles between photographers and the world. Sad, and I understand why it is important to pros, but boring to read after awhile if you're not one. Web site: http://www.pdn-pix.com/ Finally, I must mention the British (English? Just what -is- the polite term, Friends From Across The Water?) magazines. Although hard to find and expensive in the U.S., in many ways they are head and shoulders above any of the U.S. offerings. U.S. magazines (like all U.S. media, now that I think of it) tend to be watered down to a bland, one-size-fits-all, don't offend anyone, banality. British magazines have a wonderful "we're opinionated and we'll say anything" attitude. They also tend to have a lot more solid tech and photo tips then the U.S. magazines do per month. Good bang for the buck, even at the cost. Note that if you are "easily offended" you won't like them. The British may not have the First Amendment, but their publishers sure do exercise their freedom of speech a lot more often than ours do. The Puritans left and we got stuck with them, and it shows. The two I've seen so far are Practical Photography and Photo Answers. I really liked the first, and wouldn't pay the (U.S.) price again for the second. Web site for Practical Photography: http://www.erack.com/image/ There are a whole bunch of other, more specialized, magazines out there. For starters, check out: http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Products_and_Services/Magazines/Photography/ And while you're at it, do plenty of Web surfing. There's a -tremendous- amount of great photo information on the Web these days. Also note that photography is over 150 years old, and much of the needed knowledge is "timeless". For that reason, you can often find useful things in good used book stores. Hope this helps, and wasn't too long and boring. Dave