ABSTRACT

This book provides an in-depth exploration of scientific photography. Highlighting the best practices needed to make, distribute, and preserve scientific visual information using digital photographic methods and technologies, it offers solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing photographers.

Written by a team of international, award-winning image makers with over 300 years of cumulative experience, this comprehensive resource explains the foundations used, the tools required, and the steps to needed for creating the optimal photograph in a range of environments and circumstances. Topics covered include:

• ethical practices

• aerial photography

• close-up and macro photography

• computational photography

• field photography

• geological photography

• imaging with invisible spectrums

• photographing small animals in captivity

• time-based imaging

• image processing in science

Showcasing modern methods, this book equips readers with the skills needed to capture and process the best image possible.

Designed for basic and intermediate photographers, Natural Science Imaging and Photography exists as an essential contemporary handbook.

part I|81 pages

Industry Expectations and Attitudes

chapter Chapter 1|16 pages

Why Best Practices as an Approach

chapter Chapter 2|9 pages

Optimizing Imaging Outcomes

chapter Chapter 3|18 pages

The Image in Science

chapter Chapter 4|26 pages

Ethical Practices

chapter Chapter 5|11 pages

The Subject of the Photograph

part II|74 pages

Tools and Technology Foundations

chapter Chapter 6|15 pages

Cameras and Photographic Practices

chapter Chapter 7|24 pages

Light and Lenses

chapter Chapter 8|20 pages

A Deeper Dive into Digital Devices

chapter Chapter 9|14 pages

Lighting for Natural Science Photography

part III|194 pages

Applications

chapter Chapter 10|19 pages

Aerial Photography

chapter Chapter 11|15 pages

Close-Up and Macro Photography

chapter Chapter 12|14 pages

Computational Photography

chapter Chapter 13|22 pages

Field Photography

chapter Chapter 14|21 pages

Fossils, Minerals, and Geological Photography

chapter Chapter 15|36 pages

Imaging with Invisible Spectrums

chapter Chapter 16|37 pages

Contemporary Light Microscopy Practices

chapter Chapter 17|12 pages

Photographing Small Animals in Captivity

chapter Chapter 18|17 pages

Time Based Imaging

part IV|55 pages

After Capture Post Production

chapter Chapter 19|53 pages

Image Processing in Science