Photography for Kids!: A Fun Guide to Digital Photography

160 Pages·2011·13.95 MB·English

by  Michael Ebert

Photography for Kids!
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Michael Ebert is a photographer and teacher of
photojournalism at the university in Magdeburg,
Germany. He formerly worked as a newspaper and
magazine photographer. He also prepares exhibits
of famous photographers’ work and has written
extensively about photography.
Sandra Abend studied art history with a focus on
photography and wrote her dissertation about
the photographs of Jeff Wall. She directs the
Kinderartothek of the Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum in
Hilden, Germany, and she teaches at the University
of Düsseldorf in Germany. Sandra and Michael have
been running photography workshops for children
for a number of years.
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Michael Ebert & Sandra Abend
Photography for Kids!
A Fun Guide to Digital Photography
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Michael Ebert · Sandra Abend, [email protected]
Editor: Gerhard Rossbach
Translator: David Schlesinger
Copyeditor: Jeanne Hansen
Layout: Lilia Bauer
Typesetting: Petra Strauch
Cover design: Helmut Kraus, www.exclam.de
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ISBN 978-1-933952-76-5
1st Edition
© 2011 by Michael Ebert and Sandra Abend
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to Anja, Anna, Antonia,
Charlotte, Felix, Javed, Kasandra, Lea,
Melina, Neele, Nele, Phillipp, Pia, Selin,
Talia, Tamar, Vicky, and the many other
children who helped us with this book.
Thanks also to Canon for technical
support.
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Table of Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
How it All Got Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
What Is a Camera? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The Eye of the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Now it’s Time to Get Started! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Look, Snap, See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
In Focus and Out of Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Light and Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
For Small Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
How Do We Transfer Pictures to a Computer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
A World Full of Subjects for You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Take a Picture of Me! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Everyone Loves Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Four-Legged Roommates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Animals Are Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Around the World in an Afternoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Face to Face with Sharks and Squid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
People and Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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Pictures without Color? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Black, White, and Delightful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Making Small Subjects Look Bigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Vacation: Tons of Time for Cool Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Not Everyone Likes to Be in Front of the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Taking a Vacation at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Bring Your Camera along for a Swim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
There’s a Lot to Explore at the Edge of the Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
A Sea of Moving Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
From Lofty Heights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
The Carnival at Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Happy Birthday! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Pictures of Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Self-Portraits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Self-Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Reflections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
My Hometown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
What to Do with All of Your Cool Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
What Should I Keep? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
What Should I Delete? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Saving Pictures: Where and How . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Sharing Your Pictures with the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Your Pictures on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Printing Your Favorite Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Today’s Photo Book Is Yesterday’s Photo Album . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
The Ending Is Just the Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
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Foreword
What is it about taking pictures that
interests us so much? There are many
reasons people like photography. For
starters, it’s fun! It’s exciting to capture
snapshots of fascinating moments,
people, animals, places, and things. When
we grow older, we can look back at our
pictures to remember a great vacation or
a special first day of school. In some ways,
photographs become our memories; they
can bring the past back to life. Ask your
parents if they have old photos of your
great-grandparents from when they were
children.
 Taking photographs was a special
occasion for past generations. In the
picture on the right, you can see how
fascinated these children are by the
camera of American photographer
Frances Benjamin Johnston. She was a
pioneer of photography. This picture
was taken around 1900.
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