A References and Links

Here you will find the references and links cited throughout the text. Please bear in mind that Internet articles are often moved to new URLs or are removed from their original site, and that sometimes websites are simply no longer available. Please let us know if you come across any omissions – this helps us to keep our information up to date for later editions of this book.

The icon denotes software which runs on Windows and the icon denotes software designed to run on Mac OS X.

The publisher’s Internet link page to all the tools used in the book can be found at: www.rockynook.com/tools.php

A.1 Books

[1]     Take Your Photography to the Next Level: From Inspiration to Image.

George Barr

Rocky Nook, Inc, Santa Barabara, CA, 2007

ISBN: 978-1-933952-21-5

[2]     Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom.

Uwe Steinmuller, Juergen Gulbins

Rocky Nook, Inc, Santa Barabara, CA, 2007

ISBN: 978-1-933952-20-8

[3]     Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers.

Uwe Steinmuller, Juergen Gulbins

Rocky Nook, Inc, Santa Barabara, CA, 2008

ISBN: 978-1-933952-31-4

[4]     The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists.

Christian Bloch

Rocky Nook, Inc, Santa Barabara, CA, 2007

ISBN: 978-1-933952-05-5

[5]     Practical HDRI: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers.

Jack Howard

Rocky Nook, Inc, Santa Barabara, CA, 2008

ISBN: 978-1-933952-32-1

[6]     Closeup Shooting: A Guide to Closeup, Tabletop, and Macro Photography.

Cyrill Harnischmacher:

Rocky Nook, Inc, Santa Barabara, CA, 2007

ISBN: 978-1-933952-09-3

[7]     Practical Digital Photomicrography: An Introduction to Photography Through the Microscope.

Brian Matsumoto

Rocky Nook, Santa Barbara, 2009

ISBN: 978-1-933952-07-9

[8]     Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook.

Brad Hinkel

Rocky Nook, Inc, Santa Barabara, CA, 2009

ISBN: 978-1-933952-42-0

[9]     The Art of Black and White Photography: Techniques for Creating Superb Images in a Digital Workflow.

Torsten Andreas Hoffmann

Rocky Nook, Inc, Santa Barabara, CA, 2008

ISBN: 978-1-933952-27-7

Further information about these books can be found at: www.rockynook.com

A.2 Internet Resources

[10]    Outbackphoto.com: This is Uwe Steinmueller’s web site. It is entirely focused on digital photography, and includes many articles addressing related topics, including Photoshop, Lightroom, HDRI, and fine art printing:
www.outbackphoto.com

[11]    DOP Detail Extractor is a Photoshop plug-in (,) designed for increasing microcontrast in digital images. A free trial version can be downloaded at:
www.outbackphoto.com/filters/dopf005_detail_extractor/DOP_DetailExtractor.html.

[12]    FotoEspresso is a photo newsletter, which includes extensive articles about many related topics. FotoEspresso is available at regular intervals as a downloadable PDF or as an e-mail attachment. www.fotoespresso.com

[13]    HDRSoft: Photomatix is a tool (,) for creating High Dynamic Range images from several differently exposed source images. The program is more powerful than its Photoshop command-based counterpart. A good introduction to HDRI in general can be found at: www.hdrsoft.com

[14]    Lightcrafts: LightZone (,) is a photo editor which supports Lightroom, RAW, TIFF, JPEG, and PSD file formats. LightZone is capable of selective correction to specific image areas, and functions non-destructively. It also offers very precise Tone Mapping functionality (,): www.lightcrafts.com

[15]    PTLens is a Photoshop plug-in for making profile-based corrections to vignetting, distortion, and chromatic aberration errors. (,, only Intel Macs): http://epaperpress.com/ptlens/

[16]    LensFix is a Photoshop plug-in for making profile-based corrections to lens errors (): www.kekus.com

[17]    HeliconSoft: Helicon Focus (,) is a focus stacking program. It can be purchased in Lite or Pro versions: www.heliconsoft.com

[18]    Akvis: Enhancer is a Photoshop plug-in (,), which has impressive microcontrast enhancement capabilities. It is one of the reasons we often use Photoshop to post-process Lightroom images: www.akvis.com

[19]    PhotoAcute (,) is a stand-alone program with many functions, including focus stacking, super-resolution, HDRI, and lens corrections: www.photoacute.com

[20]    Adobe DNG Converter (,) is a freely downloadable RAW-to-DNG converter. DNG is the best RAW format for use with PhotoAcute or Photomatix. www.adobe.com/products/dng/

[21]    Alan Hayley: CombineZM is a reliable, free focus stacking program (): http://hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/CZM/News.htm

[22]    The Yahoo CombineZM Group can be found at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/combinez/

[23]    Nik Software offers many filters and plug-ins for Photoshop, including the well-known Nik Silver Efex (,) and Nik Sharpener (,) packages: www.niksoftware.com

[24]    FDRTools –Full Dynamic Range Tools. Andreas Schoemann offers three tone mapping tools at his website: FDRTools Basic (free , ), FDRTools Advanced, and the FDR Compressor Photoshop plug-in (,). The site also includes interesting articles and discussions relating to HDRI techniques: www.fdrtools.com

[25]    OpenEXR Viewer () is a free image viewer for OpenEXR HDR images: www.mesadynamics.com/openexr.htm

[26]    HDRView () is a fast HDR image viewer which supports Radiance, PFM, and floating-point TIFF formats: www.debevec.org/FiatLux/hdrview/

[27]    XNView is a universal, free image browser which can also display the Radiance HDR format and TIFF LogLuv files: www.xnview.com

[28]    IrfanView () is a fast, free image browser which includes support for several HDR formats: http://www.irfanview.net

[29]    Hugin (,) is an easy to use, cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools (or PanoTools). PanoTools is an open source program designed to stitch individual images together to form panoramas. It is freeware and can be downloaded at: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

[30]    PanoTools (,) was originally created by Professor Helmut Dersch. It has since been turned into an open source project and is under continual development. It is a very powerful tool for creating panoramas and other stitched images. Because its user interface is somewhat sparse, there are a number of graphical front ends available for it (such as Hugin). http://panotools.sourceforge.net/

[31]    Kekus digital offers a number of tools for profilebased correction of lens errorss (LensFix, ), and for panorama stitching (PTMac, ) and (PTBatch, ). These tools are only available for Mac OS X: www.kekus.com

[32]    PTgui and PTgui Pro (,) are panorama-creation programs: www.ptgui.com

[33]    Autopan Pro (,) is a fast, effective panorama stitcher from the Kolor company: www.autopano.net

[34]    REALVIZ Stitcher Unlimted (,) is a versatile stitcher from REALVIZ – a division of Autodesk. The company offers an introductory version called Autodesk^® Stitcher™ Express: http://stitcher.realviz.com/

[35]    DXO Optics Pro (,) is designed to make profile-based lens corrections, including lens distortions, vignetting, and chromatic aberration. The program also includes its own RAW converter: www.dxo.com

[36]    Neat Image (,) is a Photoshop plug-in used for noise reduction. It is profile-based: www.neatimage.com

[37]    Noise Ninja (,) is a very powerful Photoshop noise reduction plug-in. It is somewhat complex to use: www.picturecode.com

[38]    Noiseware (,) is a Photoshop plug-in which provides profile-based noise reduction functionality: www.imagenomic.com

[39]    enblend (,) is a command-line-based add-in for Hugin and other similar programs. It is designed to merge pre-aligned images seamlessly. There are many GUI front-ends (such as Xblend) available for enblend: http://enblend.sourceforge.net/

[40]    Novoflex is a German manufacturer of camera accessories, including tripod heads, panorama heads, quick release plates, flash guns, mini studios, and macro-photographic equipment: www.novoflex.com

[41]    Really Right Stuff is an American company which manufactures practical, high-quality (and expensive) camera accessories including L-plates, quick-release plates, tripod heads, panorama heads, and tripods: reallyrightstuff.com

[42]    Cambridge in Color is a website hosted by the University of Cambridge in England which includes a number of objective, competent tuto rials addressing digital photographic topics. The site is well laid out and (almost) completely ad-free: www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm The article discussed in the book text “Diffraction & Photographs” can be found at: www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-photography.htm In the “Advanced Topics” section you will also find some interesting articles relating to panorama photography and usable aperture.

[43]    Bob Atkins: Depth-of-Field Calculator. This page is devoted to mathematics and photography, and includes an online calculator to help determine depth of field and optimum aperture: www.bobatkins.com/photography/technical/dofcalc.html

[44]    Thomas Halstein: Outsight environmental photography. Here, you will find a number of optical formulae to help you calculate – amongst other things – depth of field and optimum aperture: www.outsight.com/hyperfocal.html#math

[45]    Exifer() is a useful, free tool which allows users to export, copy, transfer, overwrite, and edit EXIF and IPTC data: www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/

[46]    Phil Harvey: ExifTool. This tool helps you to copy EXIF and ITPC data from one image file to another: www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

[47]    EXIFUtils is a group of command-line-based tools which allow you to save EXIF and IPTC data to text files, or to transfer it to other images: www.hugsan.com/EXIFutils/

[48]    Camera test charts. There are many test charts available for determining the effective resolution of a camera. These include the standardized ISO test chart (ISO 12233 “Standard for measuring resolution of ‘electronic still imaging’ cameras”.) Simple charts usually suffice for general use, and the following article includes a printable PDF designed for exactly that purpose: www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/misc/res-chart.html

[49]    DOFMaster is a web site which hosts a number of online calculators which can be used to calculate depth of field and hyperfocal distance. These can be downloaded for free for Windows or Palm OS at: www.dofmaster.com

[50]    Building a panorama head: There are a number of guides to building your own low-cost panorama head (or L-plate) available online. Here are a few examples: www.sentex.net/~mwandel/photo/panos.html

or

www.chem.uky.edu/xray/people/Parkin/panohead/panohead.html

or

www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Panoramic-Tripod-Head/

[51]    Nodal Ninja is a series of relatively inexpensive but flexible panorama tripod heads: www.nodalninja.com

[52]    Manfrotto is a manufacturer of high-quality photographic tripods, tripod heads, and specialized panorama heads. You can find Manfrotto products and dealers who carry them at: www.manfrotto.com

[53]    panoramas.dk is a very informative internet site devoted to panorama photography. The site includes product information, links to tutorials, and other useful information: www.panoramas.dk/panorama/software.html

[54]    Panoguide is an Internet site with a number of tutorials and other useful information relating to creating panoramas: www.panoguide.com

[55]    IVRPA – International VR Photography Association. This web site includes information relating to the creation of interactive virtual reality images, including panoramas: http://ivrpa.org

[56]    Gigapxl Project is a project devoted to creating images with extremely high resolutions – all the way up to the gigapixel range. The techniques involved are based on the use of film which is later scanned, rather than on the use of digital cameras: www.gigapxl.org

[57]    Bibble Labs offer the Bibble RAW converter (,). This tool supports a broad spectrum of RAW formats and profile-based lens error corrections, including distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting: www.bibblelabs.com

[58]    Pano Tools Wiki shows you what you can do with the Panorama Tools and how to use them effectively: http://wiki.panotools.org/