I am a voracious reader. I read everything: Food labels, books, my camera and flash manuals, the manuals for cameras I don’t own, magazines, the year-old copy of Vanity Fair at the dentist’s office, junk mail, and anything else that has writing in it or on it. I currently subscribe to 11 magazines (all except two are published monthly or less than monthly) and have a large stacks of books waiting for me to read or, at least, selectively read. I also check about six photography blogs and four or five news sites everyday.
The magazines I read include the following:
- Black & White (A magazine for collectors of black and white photography.)
- Color (A magazine for collectors of color photography by the same people who publish Black & White.)
- National Geographic (It’s National Geographic. That’s enough.)
- National Geographic Traveler (I am always on the outlook for new places to visit.)
- Digital Photo Pro
- Shutterbug (A great source of information on the latest equipment.)
- Outdoor Photographer (What can I say. Even though they recycle a lot of story ideas, e.g., every year there is an article on filters, it just wouldn’t seem right not to subscribe.)
- Amateur Photographer (A British weekly that I get on the iPad.)
- Popular Photography
- Photoshop User
- The New Scientist (A weekly magazine about the latest scientific discoveries and controversies. The best, in my opinion, science newsmagazine available.)
The books that I am reading or have waiting for me include the following:
- The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman
- Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography by Harald Woeste
- Introducing HTML 5 (Voices that Matter) by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp
- CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide by Jason Cranford Teague
- InDesign CS% for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide by Sandee Cohen
My favorite reference books are as follows:
- The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Martin Evening
- Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers by Martin Evening
- Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook by Patricia Russotti and Richard Anderson
- Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS5 by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe
- Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe
