Free Photo Network

Flickr
Store, Share, Communicate, and Network
Free from Yahoo!

Flickr is the most active photo community on the internet. More people visit share there photos and visions and make connections than anywhere else on the net.

Flickr is a free service owned by Yahoo. To set up an account to share your photos on Flickr all you need is a free Yahoo id. Flickr is such a valuable tool for photographers that nobody despite your level of photographic experience should ignore it.

Flickr is vast and encompasses people and photos from all walks of life and experiences. It has professionals as well as those who post via cellphone camera.

For the professional photographer Flickr offers networking exposure to millions of potential customers and the ability to tag each photo with keywords and provide links and information to potential customers. For any professional photographer that is thinking about ignoring Flickr first read 36 reasons that Flickr is a photographers ultimate tool over at photopreneur.com, a website dedicated to identifying digital-age earning opportunity's to photographers.

For the ameature photographer Flickr provides a terrific place to host and share your photos. But it is much more. Flickr encourages its members to participate by allowing you to annotate and comment and ask questions on others photos. It also provides groups that you can join to share photos of a specific theme, or based on a photographers make of camera, or even skill level. Perhaps best of all Flickr is full of helpful fellow photographers that will help you grow and learn as a photographer.

So don't wait, Join Flickr today! And open a whole new world to your photographic experience! It is free after all...

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Free Nikon Web Community

Nikonians.org
Fantastic Free Resource
For the Nikon Shooter

Nikonians® is the largest website for Nikon users in the world. It provides free access to a member forum with a large membership of helpful Nikon users as well as numerous photographic resources geared toward the Nikon shooter.

Registration is free to the public and only required to post in the forums.

I just joined Nikonians myself, so if you see me "Sabrina F2sb" please say hello!

FREE Membership includes:

Access forum areas - Learn, share and participate in lively discussions

Receive - newsletters, podcasts and RSS feeds for free

Receive - eZine THE NIKONIAN™ as PDF for free

Access fast search portal NikoScope® for free

Get a free SILVER membership valid for 25 days and enjoy:

Upload and store images in forums
Show personal gallery images in forums
Access to the classifieds section
Create your own public and private albums (50 MB of space)

Visit the membership information page for details.

From the Nikonians website:

(www.nikonians.org) is a user community and reference site for Nikon

photographers. Found in April 2000 it helps digital and film photographers to shorten

their learning curve. The members and visitors improve their photography skills and

results while making long lasting friendships across borders and often continents.

The community is not-for-profit: All revenue generated is reinvested to maintain and

sustain its growth.

The Nikonians site has over 70, very active discussion forums with several thousand

postings per day. It also provides blogs, newsfeeds, podcasts (mp3 radio) with weekly

talk radio and interviews with famous photographers, product reviews, user stories,

newsletters, electronic magazines (ezine), books, user galleries and workshops in many

cities.

With over 10 million pageviews per month and 40 000 unique visitors daily, Nikonians

is the largest site for Nikon users in the world.

The team

Behind the community is a team of over 60 ambitious photographers and imaging

professionals, both volunteers and paid staff, helping the community’s over 90 000

worldwide members. Nikonians is independent and owned by Bo Stahlbrandt and José

Ramón Palacios.

The members

The typical Nikonians member is a “prosumer”: He uses a DSLR camera, is 45 years old,

of high education level, earns $67 000 per year and spends more than $3 800 per year

for his passion. 54 percent of the members say that Nikonians directly influenced their

shopping decisions.

The mission

Nikonians mission is to provide a friendly, creative and inspiring atmosphere for

ambitious photographers of all skill levels and demanding imaging professionals where

there is room for each photographer to learn and grow.

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Free access to Photoworkshop.com Community

Photoworkshop.com
Interactive Photographic Community
Open Free to the Public

Photoworkshop.com is a well designed website centered on photographic education, discussion and even some amazing Java based learning tools. It is free to visit and much of the sites tools and information, including their free web-magazine "Double Exposure" are available without even registration.

Free to all visitors:

Access to 3D Rooms filled with educational content and information audios and videos.

Downloadable model and property release forms.

Access to all educational Learning Centers: Canon Digital Learning Center, SanDisk Knowledge, Adobe Training, X-Rite, Pantone, iView Media Asset Management, and Moab.

Enter our exclusive contests sponsored by Adobe, Canon, and SanDisk (when available).

Learn from Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe CS®, CS2®, and CS3® tutorials.

Be inspired by thousands of images located in our Gallery Central, Adobe, SanDisk, and Canon galleries, as well as member Portfolios, Image of the Week, and PHOTOWORKSHOP.COM assignment galleries.

Access to Photo 101: Introduction to Photography, including photography books in PDF format from Wiley Publishing.

Free subscriptions to the Double Exposure online magazine, our New and Notable newsletter, Range Finder Magazine, and After Capture Magazine.

Access to the Photo Workshop Book Series assignment and critique images. Participation is free following registration.

Upload information about your special photographic events or announcements on our public calendar.

Certainly a superb photo resource, Photoworkshop.com provides hours of free learning and participatory events. For those looking to go further, paid memberships are available so you can upload and create your own photo galleries and get 1-on-1 training and critiques from some of the current leaders in the photo world.

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All the free photographic information you will ever need!

POTN
Photography on the Net
Canon Digital Photography Forums

If you have a digital camera and it's a Canon then you need to know about POTN Canon Digital Photography Forums. Even if you do not have a Canon brand camera over 50% of the website will still apply to the general digital photographer.

Created in 2001 by Finnish photographer and internet guru Pekka Saarinen its simple and free forums have attracted a vast array of photographers of varying experience from all over the world. These members all join together to provide a pleasant and welcome environment for a wealth of knowledge and ideas.

The major sections of the forum fall into 3 major sections with many sub-categories.

Equipment talk deals with the operation and details of the Canon digital cameras, lenses, and accessories. This section is the only Canon specific section and thus the least useful for non Canon users.

Photo Sharing is all about posting and discussing members photos. Broken into 15 separate areas of photography it is a fantastic place to share your photos and get comments, critiques, and advice, as well as inspiration from the works of others.

Sharing Knowhow is dedicated to discussing the technical aspects of photography including, post processing and printing, the business of photography, critique corner, and more.

There is also a members marketplace and a general discussion area if you want to discuss something other than photography with your friends at POTN.

POTN is such a helpful and useful resource that you really need to check it out if you have a digital camera. It is easily one of the simplest ways to help you improve and expand your photography skills, and it's free!

Of course POTN is not alone in providing fantastic photographic forums on the internet. Nearly every camera manufacture has a few forums dedicated to them. POTN is however one of the biggest and busiest that can provide a benefit to all photographers.

If you have a free forum you would like to recommend please leave a comment at the end of this post or e-mail me: freephotostuff@gmail.com and I will get a list together of free photography forums.

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