Photography : Physics and Art in Focus / John Beaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaver, John, 1942- author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.

IOP Ebooks Series

Standardized Title:

Physics and art of photography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Physics and art in focus.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

John Beaver is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Fox Cities Campus of University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he teaches physics, astronomy, photography and interdisciplinary courses.

Summary:

This book uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art.

Contents:

part I. Some preliminary ideas. 1. What is science? What is art?

part II. The nature of light. 2. What light is

3. What light does

4. The weird world of the photon

5. Spectra and sources of light

part III. Geometry and two-dimensional design. 6. Geometry and the picture plane

7. Light and shadows 1 : eclipses

8. Light and shadows 2 : photograms

9. Ray optics 1 : pinhole photography

10. Ray optics 2 : a fish's eye

11. Ray optics 3 : lenses

12. Symmetry

13. Two-dimensional design

14. Camera design

15. The view camera

16. Perspective and pinhole photography

part IV. Energy and photography. 17. The nature of energy

18. Energy and exposure

19. Tracing the energy from source to camera

20. The Jones-Condit equation

21. Illumination and photograms

22. The elements of exposure

23. Metering

24. Low-sensitivity detectors in photography

25. Ephemeral-process and cyanonegative photography

part V. The art and science of color. 26. The physical basis of color

27. The physiological basis of color

28. The psychological basis of color

29. Color synthesis in photography

30. Filters

31. Color experiments with black-and-white photography

part VI. Light detectors. 32 Types of detectors

33. The characteristic curve

34. Silver-based photochemical detectors 1

35. Silver-based photochemical detectors 2

36. Nonsilver photochemical detectors

37. Reciprocity failure and solarization

38. Photoelectronic detectors

39. Three-dimensional photography

part VII. Photography as an art and the meaning of digital

40. The digital and the analog

41. Digital photography and astronomy

42. Comparison of digital and film techniques

43. Image manipulation

44. The image, the object and the process

45. Four photographers and a musician

46. Toward an art and science of nature : a personal note

47. Make your own pinhole fisheye camera

48. Some technical notes on 'ephemeral process' photography

Appendix A. Units, dimensions, and scientific notation

Appendix B. Notes on the golden rectangle

Appendix C. Optimal pinhole size for a pinhole camera

Appendix D. Lambertian reflectors and emitters

Appendix E. A practical way to denote very-low sensitivity detector 'speed'

Appendix F. The optics of the camera stupida.

Notes:

"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 9, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750337021

0750337028

9780750337038

0750337036

OCLC:

1358413708