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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. The topics in the book centre around hands-on applications, illustrated by little-known photographic processes that are inexpensive and easily accessible to students.
Some preliminary ideas
1 What is science? What is art?
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
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
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
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
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
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