Inspiration for Photographers
I’m a self taught photographer. I’ve been learning photography online for 7 years now, mostly on YouTube.
In the last 7 years I’ve watched thousands of videos and read many articles.
Now that I have my place to give back to the community, in this blog post I’ve collected A LOT of YouTube links for inspiration and for learning photography or videography. Keep the fire burning and improve your skills!
Good Photography Tutors (Youtube Links)
Karl Taylor - Amazing photography tutorials and online courses.
Thomas Heaton - A very skilled Landscape photographer - super inspiring.
FroKnowsPhoto - Lots of info and tutorials.
Serge Remelli - Good Lightroom tutorials.
Phlearn - Amazing photoshop tutorials
AdormaTV - hundreds of amazing tutorials for beginners and for advanced photographers!
Flash Film Academy - This channel as a lot of videos on the business side of the industry.
B&H Photo Video - These guys are awesome! B&H is an electronics and cameras store that produce tons of great content!
Photography Lectures (Youtube Links)
In addition to many good lectures such as the following, B&H as a lot of really good videos you should watch.
Photography 101 with Jeff Cable
Shooting Great Portraits With the Minimal Amount of Gear
The 15 Features of Your DSLR That Every Photographer Should Know
15 Things You Should Think About Every Time You Take a Photo
The Magic of One Light with Joel Grimes
Speedlites: The Power and Possibilities
The Art of Intuitive Photography
How to Harness the Power of Portable Flash
How To Take Great High School Senior Portraits with Jeff Cable
10 Steps Towards Becoming A Great Photographer: Full Length
Creating Dynamic Landscape Photographs
Secrets of Great Portrait Photography
The Truth about Photography: Telling it like it is to Photography Students (By FroKnowsPhoto)
Professional Portfolios
Get Inspired by the best.
Landscape and Travel photographers
Thomas Heaton (Youtube) (Instagram)
Portrait Photographers
Brandon Woelfel (Instagram) (YouTube)
Derrick Freske (Instagram) (YouTube)
Food / Culinary Photographers
Joanie Simon (Instagram) (YouTube)
Francesco Tonelli (Instagram)
Good Videography YouTubers to learn Video from
All of these amazing creators produce tons of high quality content, and there really is a lot to learn from them!
The world of photography and DSLR is amazing, yet, there’s a collective evolution in the world of content creating and in story telling, Videography is getting better and the options are basically infinite. So, if you haven’t started looking into Video DSLR or regular video, NOW is a great time. One day or day one - you decide.
Daniel Schiffer
James Mathews
Jessy Driftwood
Tantago
Brandon Li
Mark Bone
Tom Antos
Avery Peck
Danny Gevirtz
Spenser Sakurai
Ugly Mcregor
Aputure
Indy Mogul
Peter McKinnon
Photography Shows to watch
Through the Lens - a web format presented by ADORAMA NYC. TTL is a look at the evolving aesthetic of photography as seen through this generation's creator class. “ This show is loaded with inspiration!!! So many great photographers let you in to their daily lives and mindset. Highly recommended!
Top Photographer with Nigel Barker - another photography show hosted by Adorama TV. This too is full of inspiration and very fun to watch.
Tales by Light - This is a Netflix show, this one reminds of Through The Lens but its different content so we win :)
