What do you do if you take a photo and it turns out too dark or too bright? You can use your computer to fix it for you. In this experiment you will investigate how changing the contrast of a digital photo will change the colors and...

Learn about the art, craft and processes of photography. Includes a list of famous photographers from time periods since 1839 when Louis Daguerre created the daguerreotype. Learn about the work and biography of each artist.

These methods illustrate different ways to do multiflash photography, where the camera creates successive images at regular time intervals on a single frame.

List of common types of photography. Includes descriptions of each type. Some of the types listed are linked to more complete descriptions and provide example photographs.

An introductory tutorial on the technical and creative aspects of photography.

Did you know that the same digital photo you see on a computer monitor may not look as good in print? When it comes to color profiles, there are a lot of options: RGB, CMYK, grayscale and indexed color are just a few. Learn how to choose...

This site has a few creative lesson plans on using the digital camera in a mathematics classroom. Includes geometry and measurement activities. (The link for the counting book does not work in archived version of site.)

A collection of links to the websites of professional and amateur photographers.

Strengthen your art vocabulary. This site will define for you many of the terms used to describe photography. Use them in critique and impress everyone with all that you have to say.

At this site from the American Museum of Photography, you can discover photography of Southworth and Hawes, "technical and creative innovators who sought to be recognized as artists." Read about the process of creating daguerreotypes and...

Use this lesson plan to introduce students to the history of photography and to the sorts of stories that historical photographs.

A slide show of "big head" photography by Martin Schoeller. Famous faces include American celebs like Brad Pitt and Brittany Spears mixed in with some unknown strangers.

This language arts lesson plan uses technology to assess learners' understanding of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Each student will use a digital camera to take a picture at school. He will then write a descriptive sentence about the...

Students will be introduced to the life and art of Andy Warhol as a way of considering photography as a self-portrait medium. They will create their own digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait and then write a poem to describe...

The learners will use critical thinking skills and artistic abilities to "transform" an image into something completely different. The original images can be taken with a digital camera and printed out or cut from old magazines.

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...

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.

A seven-part look at photography as a career. Includes an overview of the occupation, typical activities, skill set, preparation, wages, job outlook, and a career video.

Take a look at the history of cameras from the first pinhole camera in the 11th century to the modern day digital camera.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Karen Halverson is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her work with photography.

Ibiblio.org provides examples of Dorothea Lange's photography with commentary.

This site has numerous pictures of microscopic images. It also has a search engine so you can find specific objects. Images were captured with light microscopes, as well as electron microscopes.

This resource provides information about using digital cameras in the classroom.

Lively, vivid colors can add pizzazz and turn a dull photo into a work of art. Learn how changing the saturation levels of the colors in your photo can really make it pop.