ELINOR STECKER-OREL

Elinor Stecker-Orel got her first camera (a Baby Brownie) when she was about five years old, and she’s been taking pictures ever since. Her photographs have appeared in books, magazines, the Internet, as well as being exhibited in group and one-person shows. She formerly was senior editor of Popular Photography magazine, and has written hundreds of articles on photography, video, and Photoshop for various publications, including National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Time, U.S.A Today, and Woman's Day. As the Special Effects Diva, she writes about creative photography for the adorama.com website. She is the author of eight "how-to" books on photography and Photoshop, and presently is collaborating with a poet on a cocktail-table book of her impressionistic photographs.

An associate dean of the New York Institute of Photography, Elinor writes the textbook material as well as teaching photography and Photoshop. She also has taught photography at the Westchester Art Workshop (a division of the State University of New York) and the Hudson River Photography Workshop. She leads arts-and-crafts workshops at a local senior center and has written extensively on photo crafts for www.takegreatpictures.com. In addition to lecturing, Elinor judges local and international imaging competitions. Articles about her and her work have appeared in After Capture, Rangefinder, American Cinematographer, and Bound & Lettered magazines, and she is listed in Who's Who in Media and Communications. She has appeared as a guest authority on CNN, Fox, and on local radio and cable TV.