The fine people at TechTV and the Lab with Leo have uploaded my segment to Google Video. You can watch it right here…

I’ve recently been considering purchasing a new digital SLR camera. With so many choices out there, how does one end up making a decision? Here are some resources that I have been using.

Camera review sites like DPReview and MegaPixel offer great unbiased reviews and have excellent and very active forums where people who own cameras share their experiences.

I have talked to a few friends who own DSLR’s to find out what they like about their cameras, and more importantly to find out how they made their decisions.

Flickr captures meta data from almost every image uploaded to their photo sharing site. Their Camera Finder tool is useful in that it uses the “wisdom of crowds” to show you what cameras are most popular with photographers. It also lets you see the quality of images that are captured with a certain make of camera (although be careful - the image could have been retouched with Photoshop).

In the end, I am still waffling but will hopefully make up my mind by month’s end!

If you want to take better pictures, make sure you read this!   Photographer Andre Gunther offer his list of  The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes.  His tips, anecdotes and examples around subjects like “less is more” and “patience” are fantastic.

Clone pictures are very creative and fun pictures you can make with your kids, friends and even yourself. Clone pictures are essentially pictures where there are two or more image of any one character in a scene composited together to tell a short story.

In my first appearance on the Lab with Leo, I did a tutorial on how to create clone pictures using GIMP. If you happened to miss the show and would like to learn how to make clone pictures I have prepared an online tutorial that you can follow.

Strobist has a quick DIY project that will help you create a $10 Macro Photo Studio. All you need is a cardboard box, some white tissue paper, some posterboard and a bright light and soon enough you’ll be taking some great still life photographs.

One of the most popular posts on this blog is my instructions on how to upload to Flickr from Picassa, Google’s excellent image management application.  Looks like my hack is no longer relevant (thank goodness) as a  Flickr upload plugin for Picasa is now available!

How many times have you taken a group photograph only to find out somebody had their eyes closed or were not smiling?  A great new product from Microsoft Research is Group Shot, a simple tool that lets you take the best parts out of a series of pictures.  So when taking your next group shot take 5 or more pictures, then ’stitch’ the best parts together for an amazing photograph!

LuckyOliver  is a community of photographers, designers and artists who buy and sell stock photos.  They have a collection of great royalty-free stock photos and illustrations for a dollar each.  You purchase block of credits then use those credits to purchase your images.  Low resolution (good enough for many web projects) cost $1.00 and higer quality images are available for $4.00

PTLens is a Windows application or Photoshop plugin that corrects lens pincushion/barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective.  The application comes with profiles for many digital cameras, so check their list to see if yours is supported.

Photo Tourism is an amazing demo of a new software application from Microsoft called Photosynth.  In the screencast the presenter uses over 300 images of Trevi Fountain found on the web to create a stunning 3D walkthrough of this famous Italian landmark.