Science for the Curious Photographer

Autorentext

Charles S. Johnson, Jr. taught chemistry at Yale University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He now uses his scientific background to research and write about the science behind photography. In 2010 he published Science for the Curious Photographer.

Klappentext

While there are many books that teach the "how-to" of photography, Science for the Curious Photographer is a book for those who also want to understand how photography works.

Zusammenfassung
While there are many books that teach the "how-to" of photography, Science for the Curious Photographer is a book for those who also want to understand how photography works.

Inhalt

1. What is photography?

2. What is light?

3. The camera: An introduction

4: Images: What is perspective?

5. Why does a camera need a lens?

6. Elementary optics: How do lenses work?

7. The simple thin lens and what it does

8. How to make lenses that are good enough for photography

9. Coming to terms with real camera lenses

10. Fisheye lenses and how they capture the whole sky

11. What is an equivalent image?

12. How to get really high magnification

13. Do we need filters anymore?

14. The limits of human vision

15. How can color be managed?

16. Image capture and processing

17. What is perceived image quality?

18. The creation and appreciation of art in photography

19. What we see and how we photograph it

20. Appendices