Teeksa Photography

Photography of Skip Schiel

Photography information

Compiled by Skip Schiel

Updated July 2016

All images, text & design © Skip Schiel 1990 - 2016


BASICS & OF GENERAL INTEREST

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

Poem of the Woodcarver by Chuang Tzu (story about the source of the creative spirit)
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/04/chuang-tzu-poem-of-woodcarver.html

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

Digital Photography Glossary (Allan Weitz)
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/buying-guide/glossary-digital-photography-terms

Digital Color Principles (M. Goldman)
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phys1230/phys1230_fa03/DigiColor.htm

Basic digital principles (pixel, byte, color space, etc) (Norman Korman)
http://www.normankoren.com/pixels_images.html

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

History of Photography Timeline (Philip Greenspun)
http://photo.net/history/timeline

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

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

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

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

TECHNIQUES

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

Camera settings
http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/camera/settings/

Digital Zone System (Gisle Hannemyr)
http://dpanswers.com/content/tech_zonesystem.php

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

Fill flash (Ken Rockwell)
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/fill-flash.htm

How to Evaluate a Photograph Before Altering It in Photoshop or Similar Software (Tracy Marks)

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

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

PHOTOJOURNALISM

Photojournalism
http://wn.com/Photojournalism

Magnum Photography
http://www.magnumphotos.com/

The Construction of Photojournalism: Visual Style and Branding in the Magnum Photos Agency
http://cmsw.mit.edu/michelle-woodward-the-construction-of-photojournalism/

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

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

The Limits of Landscape (Rebecca Solnit)
https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-limits-of-landscape/

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/0013109/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.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Eugene-Atget.html

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

Dorothea Lange and her Migrant Mother (1936)
https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/migrantmother.htm

Robert Frank (1908-2004)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100688154

Henri Cartier-Bresson
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZMYN

Photographing Ground Zero, 2001 (Joel Meyerowitz)
http://www.wnyc.org/story/156192-joel-meyerowitz-photographing-ground-zero/

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%202012.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 photographers charge in 2016? (Rosh Sillars)
http://www.roshsillars.com/2016/02/how-much-should-photographers-charge-in-2016/

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

Legal Guide for Photographers, by Robin Bull (FormSwift)
http://formswift.com/photographer-guide

More writing

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