Western Light Photography
www.westernlightphoto.com
Hand Crafted by Stephen Jay Lunsford
Copyright 2017 - 2022 All Rights Reserved
Last Revised 2022
Serif, Ltd/Affinity Photo: Five years in the making, Affinity Photo redefines the boundaries for professional photo editing software for the Mac and Windows. With a meticulous focus on workflow it offers sophisticated tools for enhancing, editing and retouching your images in an incredibly intuitive interface, with all the power and performance you need.
Serif, Ltd/Affinity Designer: Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software for Mac available. Whether you’re working on branding, websites, icons, UI, or creating concept art, Affinity Designer will revolutionise how you work.
Serif, Ltd/Affinity Publisher: Affinity Publisher is a desktop publishing application developed by Serif for macOS and Microsoft Windows. This incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.
B&H Photography: The Professional's source since 1973; if you need it or want it as a profesional photographer -- this is your source. Usually the best price with the best, most affordable shipping!
Digital Photography Review (dpreview): Digital Photography Review provides the most authoritative reviews of digital equipment and news in the digital photography community; DPReview has the most comprehensive database of digital cameras in the world; provides an open, active forum and useful tools for its community.
Life After PhotoShop: Adobe PhotoShop is not the only image-editor in the world. In fact, it's not even the best! This website is where all the alternatives get a proper review -- lots of tutorials for Capture One Pro, DXO, On1, Skylum Luminar, Affinity photo, etc.
Frames Destination: Best place to purchase frames, archival matt, as well as all your framing materials -- bar none! I know, I've tried them all over the past 20 years.
The HDR Image: HDR and advanced photography learning -- current information and articles on HDR.
IT Supplies: An excellent supply house for photographic printing supplies.
Luminous Landscape: Access to over 5000 in-depth articles, hundreds of hours of video tutorials, and largest photography forum.
Skylum Software: The finest photographic applications created for Macintosh!! I personally use several of their applications, most notably, Tonality, the best Black & White digital processing application on the market -- Bar None!! Their HDR application, Aurora HDR, is probably the most powerful and intuitive HDR application on the market!
PhotoMatrix HDR: Excellent HDR software, I've been using it for years. However, with that said, I think Aurora HDR by Skylum is more intuitive and powerful.
Photo District News (PDN Magazine) Online: Professional trade magazine online.
Professional Photographer Magazine: Offical magazine of Professional Photographers of America.
Quad Tone RIP: Quad Tone RIP is a versatile software package that offers a simple turnkey method of printing black & white images on a variety of inkjet printers. It is both easy to use for a novice user who is just starting to print digital B&W photographs and yet powerful enough for the advanced user who wishes to customize, calibrate and profile their entire workflow. Beyond just the printing capability the product also includes several tools that allow the user to create a complete color-managed system for black & white printing. This includes making full B&W ICC profiles for both printing and soft-proofing within Photoshop or any other editing package that allows soft-proofing.
Rangefinder Magazine: Online addition.
The Ultimate Guide to Travel Photography: The resources in this guide will help you get more out of your travel photos, and enhance the enjoyment you get from taking them. There’s great stuff for newbies and weekend picture-takers, as well as for the more experienced photographer.