Learn My Way
Learn My Way: Using a Digital Camera
In this online course, students will learn about digital cameras, how they work, and how to download photos from a digital camera to a computer so that they can be shared with friends and family.
Read Works
Read Works: Forms of Art Photography
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction text discusses cameras act like the human eye. The article discusses how photography makes our lives richer in many ways.This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Soaring With Literary Elements and Devices
In this lesson, students will observe literary elements and devices in a variety of chapter books. Students will be paired with a partner and allowed to choose one book to identify literary elements. Using digital cameras and a computer,...
Other
Photonhead: Photographic Concepts and Tips
Photonhead is complete with a beginners guide to photography (covering the camera itself, camera modes, film speeds, and more), a digital camera buying guide, photography tips, a SimCam, and information on photo editing.
Other
Digi Cam Help: Learn About Digital Photography
Explore a complete instructional guide to digital photography. Included are glossaries, tips for shooting animals, sports, places and events.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography
American Experience offers a comprehensive look at George Eastman and his development of photography. Included are a timeline, biographies of important people in Eastman's personal and professional life, discussions in the history of...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 7: Photography
In this seventh and final unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn about photography and significant photographers. This is followed by a discussion of television and film. Students will learn terminology used, technical...
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New Orleans Kid Camera Project
New Orleans Kid Camera Project is a not for profit public art project that puts cameras into the hands of the youth of the city for them to then present their world and their art to the world on the internet.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's First Look Into the Camera (Daguerreotypes)
A searchable database from the Library of Congress that provides a fascinating look into the history of photography from 1839-1864. There are images from the Matthew Brady Studio and studio portraits by black photographers James P. Ball...
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History and Discovery of Cinematography
Self-published textbook, by film historian Paul Burns, on the history of filmmaking. Covers pre-cinematic technologies and events and ends with the discovery of motion pictures in the late nineteenth century.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Illuminating Photography: From Camera Obscura to Camera Phone
The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millenia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate images, with Leonardo da Vinci following suit 500 years later...
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Cambridge University: Understanding Digital Camera Sensors
This helpful tutorial on digital camera sensors is divided into sections including Bayer Demosaicing, Demosaicing Artifacts, and Microlens Arrays.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Early Photography: Niepce, Talbot and Muybridge
Photography is a controversial fine art medium, simply because it is difficult to classify-is it an art or a science? Nineteenth-century photographers struggled with this distinction, trying to reconcile aesthetics with improvements in...
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Cambridge University: Camera Metering Tutorial
This helpful tutorial on camera metering and exposure is divided into sections including metering options, when to use partial and spot metering, center-weighted metering, and exposure compensation.
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Digital Imaging in Education
This resource is a 15-page PDF that gives a good history of the shift from film to digital photography and applications for digital imaging in the classroom. Included are nine lesson plans which include project ideas, guidelines for...
Other
Museum of the Moving Image: Optical Room
Take a tour through the history of moving images from the earliest times into the mid-1910s. The tour begins with pre-cinema devices and practices, including shadow plays and optical toys, and covers film and photography pioneers and...
Other
Focus on Photography
These pages include the kinds of information typically covered in a basic photography course, including common features of digital and conventional cameras, photographic composition, types of lighting, and recommendations for evaluating...
Other
Drs. Cavanaugh: Digital Cameras in Education
Learn from other educators what you might need to enhance learning in the classroom with digital cameras. If you want to know what kind of equipment you need or some practical applications, this site is valuable for a novice or...
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Mas: Lunar Photography With Telephoto Lenses
Ever taken a picture of a nice large full Moon, only to find that it looks like a small dot on your finished photograph? This site explains why, and offers tips on taking good pictures of the Moon.
PBS
Art21: William Wegman
Features a biography of the artist and links to art work, video clips and interviews. On this page there are also links to lesson plans and other artist pages.
University of California
Multimedia Reporting & Convergence: Digital Cameras
A complete tutorial on digital cameras. Camera settings, battery types, memory cards and more are presented in a learning format.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Robert Cornelius
A concise biographical sketch examining the life and contributions of early photographer and Pennsylvania native, Robert Cornelius.
Other
4 Teachers: Using Digital Cameras for Classroom Projects
This article from 4Teachers.org details the many benefits of using a digital camera in the classroom, exciting ways to incorporate pictures into student work, and advice on getting started. There is also a handout you can use to...
George Eastman Museum
George Eastman House: How to Make a Camera Obscura [Pdf]
Resource provides history and background information about the camera obscura. There are also easy to follow instructions for you to make your own version of the camera obscura to better understand the history and technology behind...