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Gcf Global: Digital Photography
In this tutorial, you'll learn digital photography basics as well as some more advanced skills so you can take great pictures.
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Internet Brothers: Digital Photography
InternetBrothers.com's "Digital Photography, Instant Gratification" site offers numerous tutorials, tips, and advice for digital photographers, from beginners to more advanced.
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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.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Digital Photography: Module 2: Learning the Language [Pdf]
In this second module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about photographic attributes, composition, lenses, how to handle a camera, and digital exposure. Includes embedded links to external resources and interactive...
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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...
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Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom
This site was created by a technology coordinator to provide some ideas on how to use the digital camera in the classroom. The ideas have been collected from various educators.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Measuring Velocity With a Video Camera
A video camera records 30 "frames" or distinct images per second. (That's for an NTSC camera in the U.S. PAL cameras in other areas of the world take 25 frames per second.) You can use this fact to time events and measure velocity. One...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Is It?
Technology is incorporated into this "riddle" lesson as students select an image to capture using a digital camera. This is a fun lesson designed to introduce students to the use of digital cameras. After editing the picture, they...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Digital Pinhole Camera
If you sit under a leafy tree on a sunny day, you may notice spots of sunlight on the ground from light passing through spaces between the leaves. Try putting a piece of cardboard on the ground and examining the spots of light on the...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Camera Lens Testing
This activity helps students learn more about cameras, and how to take better pictures.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Measuring Height or Distances With a Camera
If you know or calculate the field of view for your camera, you can use it to measure distances and the height of almost anything. It's all a matter of basic trigonometry.
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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...
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Buy a Digital Camera
Get some practical advice on selecting the appropriate digital camera for your needs.
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Photonhead: Film and Digital Camera Simulator
Learn about three major camera characteristics not only by reading about them but practicing using them online.
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Cambridge University: Digital Photography Techniques
These techniques on digital photography are presented in three primary areas: depth of field, dynamic range, and field of view. A link to digital photography tutorials is also provided.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art
In this lesson students will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Camera 'Shakes'
You can compare the picture quality for photos taken at different shutter speeds with the camera handheld vs. with the camera on a tripod. (This is best done with a camera that has manual exposure control.)
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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.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Camera
Take a look at the history of cameras from the first pinhole camera in the 11th century to the modern day digital camera.
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Digicam History
DigicamHistory.com is an educational site for digital camera enthusiasts interested in the history of the digital camera. Click on different hyperlinked years to explore cameras through the 1800s up to today's digitals.
NASA
Nasa: Play Pixel This!
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides great information on the subject. Learn to see things more clearly by studying about pixels and how they are used in cameras.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Photography: Past to Present
In the instructional activity, students will create and use a pinhole camera to take a picture and then develop the negative in a darkroom. They will use photo software to change their negative image into a positive one.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Photography With Near Infrared Illumination
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have an extra sense? What if you could hear above the normal range (ultrasound) like dogs or bats? This project shows you how you can use a camera, tripod and a special filter to take...
Curated OER
How to Buy a Digital Camera
Get some practical advice on selecting the appropriate digital camera for your needs.
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