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Digital Truth Fun With 3D How to Care for Your Photographs Major: Photojournalism Photographing Flowers Photography for Kids: Tips From the Pros The 1906 San Francisco Quake, in Color The Power of Dorothea Lange's Pictures Tricky Pics __ [|Teach Photography? Try These 22 Sites For Lessons and Resources] __ Explore these 22 sites about photography for your needs URL: []
 * Manipulating digital images has never been easier, but is it lying when images in a photograph are moved closer together to fit on the same page? Touch-ups have been a part of portrait photography for a long time. Images have been cut and pasted in the tabloids to put people together or Elvis on the moon. When does digital manipulation become unethical? When you can no longer depend on your eyes, photographic truth becomes a slippery slope.
 * URL: http://www.pbs.org
 * This site contains interesting information about three dimensional photography as well as some sophisticated images for viewing and instructions on how to do so. Three-D photography has been around since the early nineteenth century, but modern technology has made remarkable improvements possible.
 * URL: http://www.magiceye.com
 * Almost everyone likes to take pictures. Some photographs have sentimental value and need to be preserved properly. Family photographs are an example. What is the proper way to care for photographs so that they will be preserved for years to come? Here you will find a list of some of the proper and improper way to care for valuable photographs, slides, and negatives. For example, did you know that you should never use ink or pen to write on the backs of photographs? Read this article to find out what is better.
 * URL: http://nebraskahistory.org
 * How can you use photography to make a difference in the world? Photojournalism focuses on creating a powerful image for maximum impact. You can learn to use your photography as part of a news-gathering team and grab the attention of the world with a stunning photograph that tells the story. Discover what other subjects photojournalism may be paired with in a course of study. Like any photographer, you need to master technical aspects and photo-editing. Curiosity is a great asset for a photojournalist.
 * URL: http://www.collegeboard.com
 * Kodak provides this web site of tips for taking photographs of flowers. A single color photograph is presented preceding a tip for good flower photography. Topics covered include background, close-ups, different angles, creative lighting, and controlling the wind. Each paragraph is well written and easy to understand. The photographic examples make the tip even easier to understand. Textual links provide popup windows with definitions of terms for the less experienced reader. Great site for younger photographers!
 * URL: http://www.kodak.com
 * You may not need to go any further than your backyard to photograph wildlife. Observing the behavior of your pets can give you clues about the how wildlife will respond. Consider what makes the animal or scene interesting and think about the objects that surround your subject. Discover the benefit of natural light and explore how to shoot a creative angle when taking scenic shots. Investigate how to take meaningful portraits that show something about the person.
 * URL: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com
 * If you've seen pictures of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake chances are those images were in black and white. However this web site contains images of this catastrophic event shown in color! But how is that possible considering the time period this event took place when most snapshots of the time were black and white? Color technology did exist at this time even though it was not widely used. Read about the history of color photography and its development and learn about some other examples from the early 1900's.
 * URL: http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu
 * Dorothea Lange understood the power of a photograph. In order to take pictures that would really convey the lives of farm workers, she asked permission and then waited until they stopped posing and went back to work. Learn about one famous photograph that conveyed the hardship of the Depression for a widow and her children. It made people want to help people like her who lived in migrant camps. Find out why the migrant woman helped Lange.
 * URL: http://www.americaslibrary.gov
 * Explore some tricky pics created with photo manipulation. Sometimes you see photographs that would be impossible to stage. A program called Photoshop allows a computer artist to blur, distort, or change the scale of elements in a photograph. Sharpen details, clone objects, or make colors look extra-bright. Some tricky pics are just for fun. Others look real enough to believe. Find out how these fun photos were created. Discover how you might be able to spot a fake.
 * URL: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com

In a hurry? Here are the 22 sites separately.


 * [|21 Photography Lesson Plans]


 * [|100 Ways to Use a Digital Camera]


 * [|Ansel Adams Photography Lesson]


 * [|The Basics of Photography Lesson Plan]


 * [|A Beginner's Guide to Digital Cameras]


 * learn about pixels, aspect ratio, types of graphics formats, memory and digital/optical zooms.


 * [|Digital Camera Sites]


 * [|Digital Imaging]


 * [|Digital Photography Tutorials]


 * [|Every Picture Has a Story Lesson Plan]
 * from Smithsonian
 * [|Exploring Photographs Lesson Plans]
 * from the J.P.Getty Museum
 * [|How to Take Great Group Photos]
 * 12 excellent tips are listed here with a photo example for each one
 * [|HP Learning Center]
 * sign up for free and take all 16 classes if you like; great resource!
 * [|Online Exhibitions from the Center for Fine Art Photography]
 * inspire your students
 * [|Photo Essay Lesson Plan]


 * [|The Photographs of Dorothea Lange Lesson Plan]


 * [|Photographing Life's Images Lesson Plan]


 * [|Photography Portfolio Lesson Plan]


 * [|Photography Resources]


 * [|Sports Photography Techniques]
 * excellent and complete site with step-by-step information on shooting sports. You can view many [|sample shots] taken for a school newspaper.
 * [|Ten Tips for Great Pictures]


 * from Kodak; excellent!


 * [|Using Photography to Enhance a Story]


 * [|Using Photography to Help Save the Oceans]
 * from National Geographic


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 * || The Life of Margaret Bourke-White || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * Have you seen photos of Jewish people in the concentration camps that made you want to cry? Or pictures of the bombing of cities and the devastation left by war that made you cringe? Photos like these are what makes photojournalists famous, and one photojournalist is especially so. A woman named Margaret Bourke-White became one of the first female photojournalists in the world, and on this web site you can read about her life and see some of her work. ||
 * Topic: Women photographers, War photography, Photojournalism, Bourke-White, Margaret,--1904-1971 ||
 * URL: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk ||  ||   ||
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 * || Photographers || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * Get glimpses of the work of a dozen Time-Life photographers. Alfred Eisenstaedt took self-portraits with famous people. See behind-the-scenes images from the Oscars forty years ago with Bill Eppridge. Bill Ray rides with the Hells Angels, and Gjon Mili captures jazz jam sessions. Larry Burrow captures the reality of the Vietnam War with a memorable photo essay. The photographs of Margaret Bourke-White capture segregation in South Carolina, while those of Ralph Morse explore the liberation of Paris. W. Eugene Smith chronicled the life of a country doctor, while William Vandivert captured images inside Hitler's bunker. ||
 * Topic: News photographers, Photojournalism ||
 * URL: http://life.time.com ||  ||   ||
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 * || Photojournalism Ethics: The Problem Seems To Be a Lot Deeper || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * A news article from the National Press Photographers Association discusses photojournalism ethics and how the related problems are actually much worse than they appear. In the discussion the impact of photographs and the appropriate use of powerful images is discussed along with the responsibility of the photojournalist to provide the public with the truth. The article will disclose the greatest challenges faced by ethics committees that once didn't seem as problematic as they now are. ||
 * Topic: Photojournalism, Journalistic ethics ||
 * URL: http://www.nppa.org ||  ||   ||
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 * || Images of Child Labor: Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * These photographers photograph children in their communities and workplaces. Examine the factors that lead to child labor around the world. See young brick makers in Peru. A ten-year-old girl works as a live-in maid, or restavec, in Haiti. Boys sell bottled water at a train station in India, making two or three dollars a day for food. They sleep on the benches or piles of luggage. Other photographs explore child trafficking and homelessness in Nepal, child soldiers in Africa, and life at a Cambodian garbage dump as children search for items that will pay their school fees. ||
 * Topic: Photographs--Psychological aspects, Child labor ||
 * URL: http://childlaborphotoproject.org ||  ||   ||
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 * || Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * As young men of military age were called into service, many women became war correspondents and photojournalists. Their contributions as individuals and as a group are the subject of this online version of the Library of Congress exhibition. Of the eight women profiled whose work is included in the exhibition, four were pioneering war photographers: Therese Bonney, Toni Frissel, Esther Bubley, and Dorothea Lange. This exhibit of their photographs of uprooted European civilians, African-Ameridcan airmen, Americans on the home front, and Japanese Americans being herded into internment camps is a lasting visual tribute. ||
 * Topic: World War, 1939-1945--Women, Photojournalism, Women photographers--Biography ||
 * URL: http://www.loc.gov ||  ||   ||
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 * || Carl Mydans: Photographs, 1935-1958 || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * After a year taking photographs for the Farm Security Administration, Carl Mydans joined the staff at Life magazine. After a few years taking photographs in the U.S., he traveled to Europe and the Pacific theatre to cover World War II. Mydans and his wife spent two years as prisoners of war in the Philippines, but Carl returned to covering the war the year after their release. Browse a collection of his photographs from 1935 to 1958. ||
 * Topic: Photojournalism ||
 * URL: http://library.duke.edu ||  ||   ||
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 * || The Power of Dorothea Lange's Pictures || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/elementary.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * Dorothea Lange understood the power of a photograph. In order to take pictures that would really convey the lives of farm workers, she asked permission and then waited until they stopped posing and went back to work. Learn about one famous photograph that conveyed the hardship of the Depression for a widow and her children. It made people want to help people like her who lived in migrant camps. Find out why the migrant woman helped Lange. ||
 * Topic: Photographs--Psychological aspects ||
 * URL: http://www.americaslibrary.gov ||  ||   ||
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 * || Compassionate Lens || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * Russell Lee was real with the subjects of his photographs. He told them that he understood that they were having a hard time and encouraged them to let a stranger photograph their lives because the rest of the country needed to know the truth. His compassionate photography showed Americans human dignity in the face of hardship. Lee depicted farmers, fishermen, and the unemployed to promote social justice. He believed pictures could do more than words to describe the realities of life for Spanish-speaking Texans. Capturing the good and the bad, he depicted suffering and little joys in communities. ||
 * Topic: Photojournalism, Documentary photography ||
 * URL: http://www.utexas.edu ||  ||   ||
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 * || Documenting America: Photographic Series || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * From Omaha to New York City, these photojournalists depict the lives of migrant workers and city dwellers. The photographs of Ben Shahn showed the impact of soil erosion on people and displayed scenes from the lives of cotton pickers. John Vachon's task was to figure out how to depict Omaha's social history. Dorothea Lange photographed California migrants during the Depression. Walker Evans photographed a New York City neighborhood. Arthur Rothstein's photographs documented tenant farmers of Alabama and migrant camps in California. Taking up photography during the Depression, Gordon Parks showed discrimination and prejudice in Washington, D.C. ||
 * Topic: Photojournalism, Documentary photography ||
 * URL: http://memory.loc.gov ||  ||   ||
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 * || Making Sense of Documentary Photography || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * We all know that a picture tells a story. But do we know what the real story is, or if we have been seeing something that really was not there? This excellent article takes a look at vintage photographs, analyzes them, and tells us what the photographer was trying to achieve through the photograph. Through many examples, we are able to take an active role in discovering the sequence of photos, and the role that the people featured took to achieve the desired goal. ||
 * Topic: Documentary photography, Photojournalism ||
 * URL: http://historymatters.gmu.edu ||  ||   ||
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 * || Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of Desolation || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/high.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * Not many Americans remember what the Great Depression was like but we have all seen images of what life was like. Some of the most famous photographs from the Great Depression were taken by Dorothea Lange. Her background was in portrait photography. She understood that portraits would have a bigger emotional impact than landscapes. One poor migrant mother looks older than her age but the famous photograph still reveals her beauty. Working for the Farm Security Administration, her photographs became government property and were published anonymously. They became icons of an era of history. ||
 * Topic: Photographs--Psychological aspects, Lange, Dorothea ||
 * URL: http://www.npr.org ||  ||   ||
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 * || Q and A with Reza, Photographer/Humanitarian || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/elementary.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * One of the most famous photojournalists in the world, Reza has had his photographs featured in Time Magazine, National Geographic, and Newsweek. In Afghanistan, he founded an organization called AINA to train women and children to create a free press. Even as a child, Reza dreamed of changing the world and bringing an end to inequality. Reza shares how children are different in war-torn countries and talks about the children he sees as heroes. He talks about the people he's met and the experiences he's had early in the morning in faraway places. ||
 * Topic: Photographs--Psychological aspects, Photojournalism ||
 * URL: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com ||  ||   ||
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 * || Riis the Reformer || Grade Level: [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/elementary.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/passthrough?image=45764/middle.gif width="32" height="32"]] [[image:http://lmc.abington.k12.pa.us/images/icons/general/spacer.gif width="32" height="32"]] ||
 * Before Jacob Riis published his photographs, most wealthy Americans thought poor people were lazy and that was why they were poor. Riis hated the signs of poverty that he saw around him in New York City's tenements and ghettos. Kids didn't have a safe place to play and people were crowded into tiny tenements. As a reporter, he followed the police as they raided saloons and brothels. He took pictures at night with a magnesium powder flash and then quickly disappeared. How the Other Half Lives, a collection of his pictures, became a bestseller. ||
 * Topic: Documentary photography, Photographs--Psychological aspects, Photojournalism ||
 * URL: http://pbskids.org ||  ||