Digital imaging and image processing means that we now have capabilities far beyond what was possible with silver technologies including; High dynamic range imaging (HDRI), stitching and focus stacking and combinations of these techniques. This presentation will show examples of what is possible and how photography can aid your research and its visual impact.
“The sensitive photographic film is the true retina of the scientists . . . . for it possesses all the properties which science could want; it faithfully preserves images which deposit themselves upon it, and reproduces and multiplies them indefinitely on request; in the radiative spectrum (electromagnetic spectrum) it covers a range more than double that which the eye can perceive and soon perhaps will cover it all; finally it takes advantage of the admirable property which allows the accumulation of events, and whereas our retina erases all impressions more than a tenth of a second old, the photographic retina preserves them and accumulates them over a practically limitless time.” P.C.Janssen 1888
Version 1.0 Silver technology
Version 2.0 The New Photography from 1895 i.e. X-rays
Version 3.0 The development of digital image processing
2. Pseudomogoplistes vicentae (Scaly Cricket)
Photomacrography
Traditional techniques are still valuable but
what more can modern techniques add?
3. Focus Stacking
Increased depth of field so
can see more detail even
with close-ups
HDRI
Increased tonal range
used to be called
latitude
Stitching
Increased area either
large scale or over
small scale
Time Lapse
Recording over a
period of time then
speeding up
4. Focus Stacking
Increased depth of field so
can see more detail even
with close-ups
HDRI
Increased tonal range
used to be called
latitude
Stitching
Increased area either
large scale or over
small scale
Time Lapse
Recording over a
period of time then
speeding up
Post-processing
To begin with all that digital photography was doing was replacing film with a chip. Version 3.0 has moved on massively from the original digital cameras which in all honesty looked just like film cameras.
Need view of Nikon F90 from above compared to D7000
Video of back of a D7000 or other showing Intervalometer built in.