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Envisioning Science The Design and Craft of the Science Image

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ISBN-10: 0262062259

ISBN-13: 9780262062251

Edition: 2002

Authors: Felice Frankel

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In this volume, science photographer Felice Frankel provides a guide to creating dynamic and compelling photographs for journal submissions and scientific presentations to funding agencies, investors, and the general public.
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Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/17/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 7.25" wide x 11.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.596

Felice Frankel is a photographer who aimed her camera at landscapes for 20 years. This resulted in the award-winning book, Modern Landscape Architecture: Redefining the Garden. In On the Surface of Things, co-authored with chemistry professor George Whitesides, she changes her focus, photographing such colorful scientific phenomena as DNA strands and chemical reactions. In 1991 she received a Loeb Art fellowship at Harvard, where she explored a relationship between science and art. Joining MIT in 1993 as an artist-in-residence and Guggenheim fellow, she teaches researchers and students how to add a visual element to their research. She is also writing a book on the same subject, funded by a…    

Envisioning Science
How to Use This Book
From the Designer's Perspective
Images in Science: A Gallery of the Past
Basics of Picture Making
Introduction
Understanding the Flatland
Preparing Your Sample
Point of View
Organizing the Image: Composition and Framing
Lighting
Exposure
Depth of Field
Equipment
Digital and Film
Photographing Small Things
Introduction
Equipment
Sample Preparation
Background; Making a Selection
Camera/Sample Angles
Lighting
Composition and Framing
Depth of Field
Scale
Special Cases
Photographing through a Stereomicroscope
Introduction
Equipment
Captured Image/Observed Image
Losing Control
Sample Preparation
Background
Camera/Sample Angle
Lighting
Composition, Framing, and Magnification
Special Cases
Photographing through a Compound Microscope
Introduction
Equipment
Captured Image/Observed Image
Losing More Control
Background
Sample Preparation
Lighting
Composition, Framing, and Magnification
Special Cases
Special Section: Biological Fluorescence Photography
Presenting Your Pictures
Introduction
Archiving
Scanning
Communicating with the Public
Speaking to Your Colleagues
Digitally Altering Images
Exercises
Visual Index
Suggested Readings
Index