Really Good Photography Magaqzine

Hi folks,

I have a cousin who is just getting into photography; he bought himself a Canon 40D about a year back. Now, Shel has a birthday coming up and I've been wracking my brains as to what to get him for a birthday. My latest and greatest idea is a photography magazine subscription but I have no access to decent book stores where I live to go in to evaluate magazines.

I would really value your suggestions. It could be nature photography or more along the lines of general photography with perhaps shooting tips or ideas and maybe a section on camera equipment.

Thanks folks,



Carol

I would highly recommend a book on optimizing his images with an image editor.
'The Digital Photography Book' by Scott Kelby is also a good choice.

Either or both of these books will pay far better dividends than any U.S. photography magazine that I'm aware of.

Carol, most magazines' web sites allow you to subscribe online. A couple I would recommend are LensWork, Outdoor Photographer, and Popular Photography.

Guy

I like Guy's suggestions. I'd also add Aperture and shutterbug to that list. Occasionally American Photo puts out an issue I find interesting.

If he were into large format, I'd recommend View Camera.

One more for nature photography : Nature's Best Although it's only quarterly.

Digital Photo Pro magazine is good. It only comes out bimonthly. It's put out by the same group that do Outdoor Photographer.

PHOTO Techniques magazine is also very good. It gets quite technical at times and sometimes a bit heavy in the writing but it's got a lot of very good information and it's possible to learn quite a bit from it. It too is published bimonthly.

Hi Carol

I have subscribed to Outdoor Photography and Popular Photography -both good magazines- but I found that I was getting most of my photo information on the web and reading the magazines less and less, so I let the subscriptions lapse. With the advent of the WWW, I don't read magazines anymore.

If I were in your situation, I would get him Outdoor Photographer, or a necktie (kidding). There is some very good photography in it, OP that is, and, sometimes, you find a decent article too. It is not as bloated with advertisements as Popular Photography. If your cousin is just starting photography, he is probably going to be more inspired by beautiful photographs than by photographs of resolution charts. I subscribed to PhotoLife (a Canadian magazine) for several years. That's a very nice publication, but it was kind of expensive, so I let 'er go.

Pete D.

For a new Canon user I recommend EOS magazine:

http://www.eos-magazine.com/

It's full of Canon-specific technical information and creative suggestions.

Outdoor Photography and PC Photo. Both good magazines with helpful articles.

I'd recommend Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography and Imaging. I am a fairly new photographer with little "training or classes" and these magazines gave me a lot of great tips and ideas as well as equipment reviews.

Carol I think my wife and I subscribe to about every magazine or most and by far I think out of the bunch that I am always going back to back issues of Outdoor Photography. I am pretty much new to photography and I would probably put Outdoor Photography at the top of the list. You have good lots of great suggestions and really can't go wrong on probably any of them but I really think Outdoor would be enjoyed the most over all.

Hi Carol,
I think you have a great idea for a gift. I won't go against any of the previously mentioned options. Personally, I just don't think you can go wrong with Outdoor Photographer, that is if thats the type of photography they are into.
But just as an additional thought since a subscription to OP is only $14.97, maybe a photography book to go along with it or just as the gift itself. Now I know this opens up a whole new can of worms when it comes to books, and I hope I don't get something started, maybe that can be a thread all of its own, but again in my opinion, a books by John Shaw are ones that will be kept and used over and over for years to come. Just an additional thought.

Brad

Outdoor Photography Canada is proving itself to be very competetive with the big mags and it is readily available to US subscribers.

Thank you all for your great ideas.

Not that this was a contest but Scott, I went with your idea of Outdoor Photography Canada. I used to do training in Canada and have seen the magazine. It looks interesting.

Now, we'll see if we can turn Sheldon into a photographer then onward to books as gifts.

Thanks again,

Carol

How about a paid subscription to the forum here at NPN? Lots to learn from everyone! Sharon

the only print magazine worth subscribing to is the 'Lenswork'. and if you are into large format 'view camera'. other magazines are bloated with ads making one think it is all in the equipment you own.