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There have been a couple of books that I have found particularly helpful in my photographic pursuits. One, Learning to See Creatively by Bryan Peterson, is a great book on all the basics of photography, everything from composition to exposure and available light. The best part of the book however is the many photos illustrating all the concepts. Practically every page has a photo, and it always relates to the concept at hand.

The other book is The A-Z of Creative Photography by Lee Frost. Once again, this book is chock-full of information with many photos as well. Another great book to fill your photography bookshelf.

The other day, while browsing around, I came across The Radiant Vista, a really excellent site with loads of information. I watched a few of the video tutorials, most notably Combining Two Exposures and Making Sophisticated Selections.

The Radiant Vista offers all sorts of great help, such as The Photoshop Workbench, which is a really great feature, where:

Every week a 15 to 20 minute video will be available for download. This video will feature a submitted image onscreen in Photoshop with a soundtrack, which will contain suggestions on getting the most out of your image in the digital darkroom. These suggestions follow a general workflow making it very easy to pick up tips and tricks.

I really love learning visually, and this site definitely pulls it off. They offer PDF tutorials in addition to videos, and all of their videos are offered in Quicktime, Windows Media, and iPod formats.