The physics and art of photography.

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"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The physics of light detectors -- 1. Detectors and the characteristic curve -- 1.1. The physics of photons -- 1.2. Photoelectric detectors -- 1.3. Photochemical detectors -- 1.4. Basic photochemistry -- 1.5. The eye as a detector -- 1.6. Exposure, density, and the characteristic curve2. Silver gelatin photochemical detectors -- 2.1. Black-and-white silver gelatin emulsions -- 2.2. Chromogenic color emulsions -- 2.3. Reversal-processed silver gelatin emulsion -- 2.4. Lumen process -- 2.5. Ephemeral process (EP) -- 2.6. Instant film3. Other photochemical detectors -- 3.1. Daguerreotype -- 3.2. Wet collodion, ambrotype, and tintype -- 3.3. Cyanotype and Van Dyke processes -- 3.4. Platinum and palladium processes -- 3.5. Gum bichromate -- 3.6. Anthotypes and chlorophyll prints4. Some interesting technical details -- 4.1. Reciprocity failure -- 4.2. Solarization5. A brief diversion into the weird world of the photon -- 5.1. Young's double-slit experiment and the wave model of light -- 5.2. The photoelectric effect and the particle model of light -- 5.3. Young's experiment reconsidered6. Digital photoelectric detectors -- 6.1. CCD and CMOS array detectors -- 6.2. The physics of CCD arrays -- 6.3. Color digital detectors7. Unusual detectors and 3D photography -- 7.1. Stereo photography -- 7.2. Light-field photography -- 7.3. Autochrome Lumi?ere process -- 7.4. Holography -- 7.5. Lippmann process color photographypart II. Photography as an art and the meaning of digital -- 8. Comparison of digital and film techniques -- 8.1. Borders and cropping -- 8.2. Brightness and contrast adjustments -- 8.3. Dodging and burning -- 8.4. Color darkroom vs digital9. The digital and the analog -- 9.1. Pixels and granularity -- 9.2. Resolution -- 9.3. Signal and noise -- 9.4. Digital photography and the data revolution in astronomy10. Is digital manipulation cheating? -- 10.1. Paying one's dues -- 10.2. Honesty -- 10.3. Retouching -- 10.4. Digital filters and clich?e11. The image, the object, and the process -- 11.1. Some preliminary ideas -- 11.2. Four photographers and a musician -- 11.3. Examples from lumen and ephemeral process photography -- 11.4. Drawing from negatives -- 11.5. The camera stupida12. Towards an art and science of nature -- 12.1. A personal note -- Appendices. A. Making ephemeral process (EP) negatives from chromogenic prints -- B. The optics of the camera stupida -- C. Units, dimensions, and scientific notation.This is the third volume in a three-part series that 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. It focuses on the physics and chemistry of photographic light-sensitive materials, as well as the human retina. It also considers the fundamental nature of digital photography and its relationship to the analog photography that preceded it.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.John Beaver is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Fox Valley Campus of University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he teaches physics, astronomy, photography and interdisciplinary courses. He earned his BS in physics and astronomy in 1985 from Youngstown State University, and his PhD in astronomy in 1992 from Ohio State University. His published work in astronomy is on the topics of spectrophotometry of comets and gaseous nebulae, and multi-color photometry of star clusters.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 16, 2019).

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