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I have been interested in photography (primarily as a hobby) for about 35
years or so. Switched to digital about 6 or 7 years ago and currently
subscribe to PC Photo. Am looking to also subscribe to what would be
considered a general, all-around photography magazine (PC Photo is
completely about digital imaging). Any suggestions/opinions? Thanks.
(PS I also posted this in alt.photography so please don't suggest that I
should have posted this elsewhere.)

"Steven Wandy" <> wrote in message
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> I have been interested in photography (primarily as a hobby) for about 35
> years or so. Switched to digital about 6 or 7 years ago and currently
> subscribe to PC Photo. Am looking to also subscribe to what would be
> considered a general, all-around photography magazine (PC Photo is
> completely about digital imaging). Any suggestions/opinions? Thanks.
> (PS I also posted this in alt.photography so please don't suggest that I
> should have posted this elsewhere.)
>

Try Pop Photo and Outdoor Photo. I also like Digital Photo Pro.

Photography magazines are cheap and they come out once every month or two.
Buy a couple and see what YOU like rather than what I like, or He likes or
She likes or They like or No one likes. It's not like a major investment.
I've found the best source for how to information about photography comes
in books where they don't have to repeat the basics for those who weren't
subscribing last month. Take a few out of the library and you'll be doing
better than any magazine I've ever seen - That's right if you really want to
know which photography magazine I like it is -- they are all a waste of the
time it takes to read them.

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"Steven Wandy" <> wrote in message
news:g4%Bc.218874$...
> I have been interested in photography (primarily as a hobby) for about 35
> years or so. Switched to digital about 6 or 7 years ago and currently
> subscribe to PC Photo. Am looking to also subscribe to what would be
> considered a general, all-around photography magazine (PC Photo is
> completely about digital imaging). Any suggestions/opinions? Thanks.
> (PS I also posted this in alt.photography so please don't suggest that I
> should have posted this elsewhere.)
>
>

Tony Spadaro wrote:

> Photography magazines are cheap and they come out once every month or two.
> Buy a couple and see what YOU like rather than what I like, or He likes or
> She likes or They like or No one likes. It's not like a major investment.
> I've found the best source for how to information about photography comes
> in books where they don't have to repeat the basics for those who weren't
> subscribing last month. Take a few out of the library and you'll be doing
> better than any magazine I've ever seen - That's right if you really want to
> know which photography magazine I like it is -- they are all a waste of the
> time it takes to read them.
>

Hmm. I've been publishing magazines for 16 years now, and we have a
basic rule - we never repeat a feature. If we did a bag guide in 1996,
we never do a bag guide again. If you ain't been with us since 1988, you
don't know what the hell the current issue is talking about! We even
refer to issues ten years ago when discussing products with our readers.
Leaves the new ones confused, but gives them a sense of history...

It's very hard work not doing the annual repetition of stuff which the
am-pro mags do. We do not publish a 'features schedule' so none of the
ad agencies have the faintest idea what we are going to be writing
about. We say 'how the hell should I know?' I don't know who will be
sending me brilliant pictures NEXT month, or what new products will
arrive six months from now. I just gather material, and a week before
the printers need the pages, I WORK LIKE HELL creating a mix which looks
interesting and uses all the latest stuff I can.

This is why no publisher will ever employ me and I have to own my own
magazines instead

David, Scotland

Hi David,

> This is why no publisher will ever employ me and I have to own my own
> magazines instead

)

Do you have a web-site for your magazines?

Natalia Blomeier
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com
[Software for natural color correction]

Natalia Blomeier wrote:

> Hi David,
>
>
>>This is why no publisher will ever employ me and I have to own my own
>>magazines instead
>
>
> )
>
> Do you have a web-site for your magazines?
>


There's not a lot there apart from a sub page (Paypal) and some
downloadable sample articles from previous issues -

http://www.freelancephotographer.co.uk/

we are working right now on a new fully-featured site

http://www.f2photo.co.uk/

for the new f2 magazine which, with luck, will be my final gearshift in
the last 15 years of producing what started as PhotoPro.

No connection with Patch Publications' PhotoPro, Bob Shell just happened
to have me editing one of his English-published camera manuals in 1990
and we made the mistake of passing him some copies of our PhotoPro (a
quarterly at that time). By pure coincidence his colleagues at Patch
produced a US equivalent under the same name very shortly afterwards...

Our title changed name to Photon in 1996 and went monthly. In 1999 we
sold the Photon website to Photoshot.com, and relaunched as Freelance
Photographer (though we never sold the magazine name). This month we
relaunch as f2 magazine - technically, "f2 Freelance+Digital" is the
full title in the ISSN records.

The essence of these mags has always been that I make magazines for
people like me - my job is to make the magazine which I would want to
buy myself. That means my target reader is either an enthusiast and very
proficient non-pro, or a solo professional working outside
employment/staff structures and sharing the mindset of the creative
amateur - or someone in between, part-time, or on the ladder to going
freelance full time. We don't tend to deal with high value equipment
(labs, big studio, 22 megapixel backs etc) or with consumer products.
And we do *not* concentrate on sports and news or celebrity pic
shooting, or on city concerns. We have always been provincial, country
based, and more into the art, craft, science and history of photography.

Actually, our content is very much like Swedish, French, Greek, Spanish
etc photo magazines and not a bit like British ones. I don't know how it
compares with US mags today but we are quite like they used to be around
1970.

David

David, thank you for the info.

Found interesting some of your articles at
http://www.freelancephotographer.co.uk/pdfindex.html

Sincerely,

Natalia Blomeier
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com
[Software for natural color correction]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:15:58 +0000 (UTC), David Kilpatrick
<> wrote:

[]
>
>we are working right now on a new fully-featured site
>
>http://www.f2photo.co.uk/
>
>for the new f2 magazine which

David
May I suggest that you put up a temporary holding page in place of the
one provided by your web hosing co...

If you do, please try to avoid "Under construction" etc.. That infers
to the visitor "It aint done yet, I'm busy, bugger off and come back
later..."

May be a nice logo with text similar to:

"Coming shortly, a new and exciting digital photo magazine dedicated
to.... etc"

(Only a suggestion...)

--
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Thanks

Donald Gray wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:15:58 +0000 (UTC), David Kilpatrick
> <> wrote:
>
> []
>
>>we are working right now on a new fully-featured site
>>
>>http://www.f2photo.co.uk/
>>
>>for the new f2 magazine which
>
>
> David
> May I suggest that you put up a temporary holding page in place of the
> one provided by your web hosing co...
>
> If you do, please try to avoid "Under construction" etc.. That infers
> to the visitor "It aint done yet, I'm busy, bugger off and come back
> later..."
>
> May be a nice logo with text similar to:
>
> "Coming shortly, a new and exciting digital photo magazine dedicated
> to.... etc"
>


It seems the server we are using lost its hard disk yesterday, and might
appear not to have RAID or backups - and we were in the middle of
building it.

Pooh.

David

Looks like the logo at http://www.f2photo.co.uk/ has some dark pixels...

Just need to criticize someone

Natalia