Picturing science and engineering /

Frankel, Felice,

Picturing science and engineering / Felice C. Frankel - ©2018 - xv, 451 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Flatbed scanner -- Camera basics -- Light -- Phone cameras -- Microscopy -- Presenting your work -- Image enhancement -- Case studies

A guide to making scientific photographs for presentations, journal submissions, and covers, featuring step-by-step instructions and case studies, by an award-winning science photographer; illustrated in color throughout. One of the most powerful ways for scientists to document and communicate their work is through photography. Unfortunately, most scientists have little or no training in that craft. In this book, celebrated science photographer Felice Frankel offers a guide for creating science images that are both accurate and visually stunning. Picturing Science and Engineering provides detailed instructions for making science photographs using the DSLR camera, the flatbed scanner, and the phone camera. The book includes a series of step-by-step case studies, describing how final images were designed for cover submissions and other kinds of visualizations. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, the book encourages the reader to learn by doing, following Frankel as she recreates the stages of discovery that lead to a good science visual

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Photography--Scientific applications
Photography--Digital techniques
Science--Graphic methods
Engineering--Graphic methods
Engineering--Graphic methods.
Photography--Digital techniques.
Photography--Scientific applications.
Science--Graphic methods.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Reference


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TR692 / .F735 2018

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