Photography
for Kids
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Photoshop® Elements 2.0 online course
This course shows you how to modify and enhance images and create
composite images, then print your images or save them in a Web
gallery.
BetterPhoto
for Kids and Teens
Whether you have been snapping pics for a while or you are just
picking up a camera for the first time, this site is for you!
We are here to help you learn how to take great photos.
Taking
Great Pictures
Whether you want a little information or a lot, it's all here!
Look-up a quick photo tip, follow the steps for e-mailing a picture,
or explore black-and-white photography. Kodak
has lots of information, tips, and fun ideas for you.
Digital Photography
Adobe
Digital Kids Club
You'll find the essential digital photography resources you need
to unleash the creative freedom that digital cameras can offer.
Now it's easy to bring digital photography into projects at home.
History of the
Camera
The
Brownie Camera @ 100: A Celebration
Originally cost $1 and was the birth of the "snapshot."
Many children got their start in photography with a Brownie,
including Ansel Adams, famous for his Yosemite photos.
Yosemite's Ansel Adams
Video. Meet Michael Adams, son of Ansel Adams, as he tells you about growing up with his sister, Ann, in Yosemite, helping his father take his famous photographs.
Making Movies
iStopMotion
Get a Lego set or your favorite action figure, hook up your digital
camera to your Mac, get iStopMotion and start doing your own
fun stop motion animation or time lapse movies. Be sure to see
the examples to give you ideas and suggestions.
Tips
for Making Your Movie
Apple "storyboards" tips for making a good movie using
your video camera and iMovie.
Pinhole Cameras
How
to Make and Use a Pinhole Camera
When you make a pinhole camera to accept roll or sheet film, use a small, light-tight can or box as the camera body.
Make a Digital Pinhole Camera
For the best results, you need a digital SLR (so you can remove the lens), a body cap (the cover that screws onto the camera body when there's no lens attached), some heavy foil, and electrical tape. Ready to play along?
Oatmeal
Box Pinhole Photography
This site not only helps you build your own cammera, but also
explains how you can get a photograph from a tiny pinhole.
The
Pinhole Viewer
A pinhole viewer is a simplified camera, using only a film canister
with a hole poked into it as an aperature and semi-opaque tape
as a viewing screen.
Pringles
Can Pinhole Camera
Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.
Special Shots
How
To Photograph Football
Simplification involves leaving in details that impart pertinent
information, as well as eliminating details that distract. A
corollary of using a fast shutter-speed is to use a fast film.
Tricks
for Pet Photography
Taking pictures of pets is a great time to practice creating
mood and story, by telling the story from your pet's point of
view.
Wildlife
Research Photography
MoosePeterson.com is a website dedicated to my great passion,
wildlife photography. Lots go into that passion, everything from
the tools and techniques to capturing the image to the tools
and techniques to presenting the final image.
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