Teeksa Photography

Photography of Skip Schiel

Photography information

Compiled by Skip Schiel

Updated March 2013

All images, text & design © Skip Schiel 1990 - 2013

BASICS & OF GENERAL INTEREST

Digital Photography Glossary
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/glossary/default.mspx

Learning to Look, a format for looking at and talking about photographs
http://www.creativephotography.org/study-research/educators/learning-to-look

What Digital Technology Means to Photography (Skip Schiel)
http://teeksaphoto.org/Graphics/DigitalMeans1.pdf
http://teeksaphoto.org/Graphics/DigitalMeans2.pdf

A Digital Timeline, A History of Digital Technology, Beginnings to 1900 (and up to 2005)
http://teeksaphoto.org/Archive/DigitalTimeline/DigitalTimeLineWeb1.html

Poem of the Woodcarver by Chuang Tzu (story about the source of the creative spirit)
http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2010/03/21/poem-of-the-woodcarver-by-chuang-tzu/

Concerning one chief block to the creative spirit
The Screwdisk E-Mail, 10, Subject: writer's block, by Skip Mendler
http://fqa.quaker.org/types/t15-mendler.html

History of the camera
http://ezinearticles.com/?History-of-the-Camera&id=18736

Glossary of Photo Processes
http://www.soulcatcherstudio.com/glossary.html

The Development of Photography
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CGAQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkarengagephotography.com%2FStarting%2520over%2F6%2520Students%2FImaging%2520Tech%2520PDFs%2F3.1_Development%2520of%2520Photography.pdf&ei=-6AyT-i2K6KS0QHQ1_nWBw&usg=AFQjCNHSamT6s4H6lJLqxQJ4cpbidOXgfA

Color temperature
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp028.htm

A theory of photography based on grammatical prepositions (Skip Schiel)
http://teeksaphoto.org/WorkshopsF/TheoryPhotoGrammar.html

8 Causes of Bad Photography (Lou Jones)
http://fotojonesblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/8-causes-of-bad-photography.html

50 + 1 Top Photography Blogs, Websites, and Magazines to Follow (Lou Jones)
http://fotojonesblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/50-1-of-top-photography-blogs-websites.html

What Makes a Clown Funny? (Barry Lubin as Grandma from the Big Apple Circus)
(with relevance to what makes a person a good photographer?)
http://www.pbs.org/opb/circus/in-the-ring/what-makes-clown-funny/

TECHNIQUES

Camera settings
http://www.cheapshooter.com/2007/08/13/9-digital-camera-settings-for-every-photographer-to-discover/

Synchro Sun, aka Fill in flash
www.webster.edu/acadaffairs/asp/.../Photo/.../Syncro_Sunlight.pdf

Depth of Field, aka Depth of Focus
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/depth-of-field.htm

Digital Zone System
http://dpanswers.com/content/tech_zonesystem.php

Photoshop tool tips & shortcuts
http://www.photoflashgraphics.com/photoshop_tools.htm

High Dynamic Range (HDR)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_imaging
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm

International Colour Photography
http://nga.gov.au/Colour/index.cfm

Convert a color photo into black and white
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/color-black-white.htm

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima

A History of Night Photography by Lance W. Keimig
http://www.thenocturnes.com/resources/keimighx.html

PHOTOJOURNALISM

Photography as a Tool for Political Transformation, a workshop
http://teeksaphoto.org/WorkshopsF/PhotographyToolPoliticalTransformationSchiel.doc

Image Makers, the photojournalist is a witness, an adventurer, an interpreter of history. And for the past half-century, Magnum photographers have defined the craft
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/971006/archive_007989_print.htm

Photojournalism
http://wn.com/Photojournalism

The Construction of Photojournalism: Visual Style and Branding in the Magnum Photos Agency
cms.mit.edu/research/theses/MichelleWoodward2002_noimages.pdf

Photographing Ground Zero, 2001
http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4450007-1.html

Big Canvas ( Rebecca Solnit), about alternative ways of making and thinking about landscape photography
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1525/is_6_85/ai_66356256/

Street photography (Petteri Sulonon)
http://www.prime-junta.net/pont/How_to/hd_Lesson_3/_Shoot_the_Street.html

f/8 And Be There, It's not just a photographic technique: It's a philosophy for documentary, street, and travel photographers
http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/f8-and-be-there

Hand Gestures
http://www.uwosh.edu/home_pages/faculty_staff/minniear/pages/etiquette%20101%20gestures%202.pdf

http://www.uwosh.edu/home_pages/faculty_staff/minniear/pages/etiquette%20101%20gestures%203.pdf

http://www.uwosh.edu/home_pages/faculty_staff/minniear/pages/etiquette%20101%20gestures%204.pdf

http://www.uwosh.edu/home_pages/faculty_staff/minniear/pages/etiquette%20101%20gestures%201.pdf

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Eugene Atget (1856 - 1927)
http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/eugene.htm

Interview with Jerry Uelsmann (photo compositor)
http://bermangraphics.com/press/jerry-uelsmann.htm

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, how she came to make the photographs
http://berkeley.edu/lange/mother.html

Robert Frank
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100688154

Henri Cartier-Bresson
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R14T1LX&nm=Henri%20Cartier-Bresson

LEGAL ISSUES & BUSINESS

The Photographer's Right A Downloadable Flyer Explaining Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography, by Bert P. Krages II
http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm

Legal Rights of Photographers, by Andrew Kantor
http://www.andrewkantor.com/legalrights/Legal_Rights_of_Photographers.pdf

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) photography policy (Boston)
http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Police/Photo%20Policy%201.pdf

Property And Model Releases (from ASMP, the American Society of Media Photographers)
shttp://asmp.org/tutorials/property-and-model-releases.html#.UIlUR2l27xZ

How much should you charge for a photograph?
Economics 101 for photographers
http://www.pixiq.com/article/photography-pricing

American Society of Media Photographers
http://asmp.org/

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