Author: Charles S. Johnson, Jr. Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351811851 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 338
Book Description
While there are many books that teach the "how-to" of photography, Science for the Curious Photographer is a book for those who also want to understand how photography works. Beginning with an introduction to the history and science of photography, Charles S. Johnson, Jr. addresses questions about the principles of photography, such as why a camera needs a lens, how lenses work, and why modern lenses are so complicated. Addressing the complex aspects of digital photography, the book discusses color management, resolution, "noise" in images, and the limits of human perception. The creation and appreciation of art in photography is discussed from the standpoint of modern cognitive science. A crucial read for those seeking the scientific context to photographic practice, this second edition has been comprehensively updated, including discussion of DSLRs, mirror-less cameras, and a new chapter on the limits of human vision and perception.
Author: D. Andrew Rowlands Publisher: ISBN: 9781510631151 Category : Image processing Languages : en Pages : 170
Book Description
This Field Guide provides a concise summary of the photographic imaging chain and explains the connections between the science and photographic practice. It summarizes the fundamental optics required for understanding photographic formulae. The relationship between the photometric exposure distribution at the sensor plane and the resulting digital raw data produced by the camera is described, as are the steps required to convert raw data into an output color image for a display. Other topics include focusing, framing, depth of field, photometric exposure, lighting, strategies for obtaining a suitable exposure, and camera image quality.
Author: Tadaaki Tani Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019957295X Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 301
Book Description
This book provides a guide to modern developments in photographic science and their possible applications to new and exciting areas, including nano-technology, solar cells, and organic semiconductors. Part I of this book describes the state of the art in photographic science, including recent developments. It describes the structure, formation and properties of silver halide (AgX) nano-particles and grains, the formation and performance of Ag clusters and nano-particles, and dye sensitization with J-aggregated dye layers. Part II describes the applications to new areas now in development, including digital photography, new nuclear-track emulsions, silver nano-particles for surface plasmon resonance, dye-sensitized solar cells, and organic semiconductors in relation to J-aggregated dye layers. Creating a record of accumulated knowledge in photographic science, this book also provides for these new areas a guide to the knowledge and ideas that arise from synergetic interactions between photographic science and technology which have pioneered unique applications of nano-particles, J-aggregates, and dye sensitization.
Author: Fil Hunter Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1136091890 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 329
Book Description
This book is renowned for being the book to own to understand lighting! This is better than all the other how to books on the market which just provide set examples for photographers to follow. Light Science and Magic provides photographers with a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light to allow individual photographers to use lighting to express their own creativity. It will show you in-depth how to light the most difficult subjects such as surfaces, metal, glass, liquids, extremes (black-on-black and white-on-white), and people. With more information specific for degital photographers, a brand new chapter on equipment, much more information on location lighting, and more on photographing people, you'll see why this is one of the only recommended books by www.strobist.com.
Author: Avner Friedman Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642557554 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
This book presents mathematical models that arise in current photographic science. The book contains seventeen chapters, each dealing with one area of photographic science, and a final chapter containing exercises. Each chapter, except the two introductory chapters, begin with general background information at a level understandable by graduate and undergraduate students. It then proceeds to develop a mathematical model, using mathematical tools such as ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, and stochastic processes. Next, some mathematical results are mentioned, often providing a partial solution to problems raised by the model. Finally, most chapters include open problems. The last chapter of the book contains "Modeling and Applied Mathematics" exercises based on the material presented in the earlier chapters. These exercises are intended primarily for graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
Author: Marvin Heiferman Publisher: ISBN: 9781597114479 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Photography's critical role in science explained Subjects range from facial recognition to outer space For everyone curious about the impact of photography on our lives
Author: Paul Fuqua Publisher: ISBN: 9780240804910 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This text introduces a logical theory of photographers lighting - one that teaches beginning photographics to predict results before setting up lights. This is not primarily a how-to book with only set examples for photographers to follow. Rather, it provides the reader with a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light to allow individual photographers to use lighting to express their own creativity. Numerous photographs and illustrations provide clear examples of the theories delineated within the text, while sidebars highlight special lighting questions.
Author: Enrico Savazzi Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557911338 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 705
Book Description
Photography is the primary tool for visually documenting specimens, experimental findings and laboratory setups in many scientific fields. Photographic illustrations in these fields must satisfy criteria of clarity, objectivity and adherence to accepted standards, in addition to a pleasant but not distracting composition and illumination. This book concentrates on the choice and practical use of digital cameras, lenses and related equipment of types commonly available at research institutions and museums. The described techniques are suitable for subject sizes between approximately half a millimeter and half a meter, and differ from those used in general photography and microscopy. The intended audience of this book includes professional scientific photographers, scientists and students who need to carry out photography in support of their own research or as part-time scientific photographers at a research institution, and advanced amateur photographers who wish to master these techniques.
Author: Sara Hillnhuetter Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000365328 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
This book explores the territories where manual, graphic, photographic, and digital techniques interfere and interlace in sciences and humanities. It operates on the assumption that when photography was introduced, it did not oust other methods of image production but rather became part of ever more specialized and sophisticated technologies of representation. The epistemological break commonly set with the advent of photography since the nineteenth century has probably been triggered by photographic techniques but certainly owes much to the availability of a plethora of hybrid media—media that influence the relation of sciences, humanities, and their methods and subjects. This book will be of interest to scholars in art and visual culture, photography, and history of photography.
Author: Charles S. Johnson, Jr.
Author: D. Andrew Rowlands
Author: Tadaaki Tani
Author: Earl Nelson Mitchell
Author: Fil Hunter
Author: Avner Friedman
Author: Marvin Heiferman
Author: Paul Fuqua
Author: Enrico Savazzi
Author: Sara Hillnhuetter