VIDEO REFERENCE:
Workshop 1

• Photography and Lighting
• Shadows
• Absoption
• Pinhole Cameras
• Speed of Light

PHOTOGRAPHY and LIGHTING

Kodak Web site for photography techniques

Find helpful hints for using light direction and contrast to improve your photographs.
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=317

Ilford Web site

Useful resources and tips on photography. Also check out the Teachers Lounge.
http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/homeng.html

Fuji Film Web site

A helpful site for locating photgraphy supplies and information.
http://www.fujifilm.com/

Photography Zone

Explore a set of Web sites relating to photography.
http://www.zinezone.com/zines/arts/fine/photography/photog/index.html

Photography Links

Photography links from a Forensics site
http://209.224.146.49/photolink.html

Photo.net

An online community for people wanting to improve their photographic skills. http://photo.net/photo/index.html

Light--a chapter in Making Photographs, by Philip Greenspun

A chapter about light and lighting in photography; Part of Photo.net
http://photo.net/photo/tutorial/light.html

The American Museum of Photography

Explore photo exhibits and read about the history of photography http://www.photographymuseum.com/

Basic Photography Guide by Robert Slade

Introduction to basic photographic concepts like shutter speed, aperture, film and flash photography. http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masres/photo/manual.html

SHADOWS

International Space Physics Educational Consortium (ISPEC) Web site

This Web site has a clear explanation and diagrams of the umbra and penumbra effects during a solar eclipse.

http://ispec.scibernet.com/student-pages/sun97/page3.html

 

Shadows Exploratorium Snacks

Look here for activity ideas
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/shadows/index.html

Bob Miller’s Light Walk (Exploratorium)

This is a wonderful site that explores light and shadows outdoors and explains why the light spots that are made outdoors are sun-shaped, not shaped like the hole in the object making the shadow
http://www.exploratorium.edu/light_walk/lw_main.html

ABSORPTION

Absorption Web site

http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/spectroscopy/natreal.html

Absorptionm Reflection Activity

http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/w_unit/LESSONS/reflectivity.absorption.html

PINHOLE CAMERAS

Pinhole Cameras

http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/pringles_pinhole.html

Exploratorium on Pinhole Cameras

http://www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/activities/pinholeinquiry/images.html

SPEED OF LIGHT

Nove Online explores light

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencelight/