The Visual Elements—Photography: A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering: The Visual Elements
Autor Felice C. Frankelen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 noi 2023
Award-winning photographer Felice C. Frankel, whose work has graced the covers of Science, Nature, and Scientific American, among other publications, offers a quick guide for scientists and engineers who want to communicate—and better understand—their research by creating compelling photographs. Like all the books in the Visual Elements series, this short guide uses engaging examples to train researchers to learn visual communication. Distilling her celebrated books and courses to the essentials, Frankel shows scientists and engineers the importance of thinking visually. When she creates stunning images of scientific phenomena, she is not only interested in helping researchers to convey understanding to others in their research community or to gain media attention, but also in making these experts themselves “look longer” to understand more fully. Ideal for researchers who want a foothold for presenting and preparing their work for conferences, journal publications, and funding agencies, the book explains four tools that all readers can use—a phone, a camera, a scanner, and a microscope—and then offers important advice on composition and image manipulation ethics. The Visual Elements—Photography is an essential element in any scientist’s, engineer’s, or photographer’s library.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226827025
ISBN-10: 022682702X
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 283 color plates
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria The Visual Elements
ISBN-10: 022682702X
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 283 color plates
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria The Visual Elements
Notă biografică
Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer and research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Frankel is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At MIT, Frankel developed and instructed the first online MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) for edX addressing science and engineering photography. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel has had images appear in National Geographic, Nature, Science, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, PNAS, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover, Popular Science, and New Scientist, among others. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Envisioning Science, No Small Matter, On the Surface of Things, Visual Strategies, and Picturing Science and Engineering.
Cuprins
Introduction
1 Scanner
2 Phone
3 Camera
4 Microscope
5 Putting It Together
6 Image Integrity
Submitting for Publication
Gratitude
1 Scanner
2 Phone
3 Camera
4 Microscope
5 Putting It Together
6 Image Integrity
Submitting for Publication
Gratitude
Recenzii
"A research scientist in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Chemical Engineering, Frankel has made a name for herself by helping scientists augment their work with pictures that capture, represent, and communicate science, including many journals’ cover photos. . . . Besides taking a variety of cover photos, she also helps scientists improve the graphs and images inside the articles, which she says researchers often assemble hastily, at the last minute, and without the same care they put into their words. And yet the images can be the most important part of the article. . . . 'It’s not about pretty pictures,' she says. 'It’s really about communication. And pushing the researcher to think beyond the good enough. That’s my whole shtick.'"
"A handbook of practical tips and thought-provoking images to inspire scientists and engineers to better photograph their own research for use in journal articles, grant applications and to help the public better understand their work. . . . The book is filled with tips on lighting, composition, depth of field, cropping, and helpful improvisations like taping together plain paper to create a backdrop that hides the fussy background of your research lab and makes your subject pop."
"Frankel has spent decades as a teacher, training young researchers and established faculty to be effective visual storytellers. As part of that enterprise, she has just published The Visual Elements—Photography, the first in a series of handbooks that collect and curate her methods of communicating research through images. . . . This compact, 225-page primer highlights four devices Frankel has learned to exploit, in often ingenious ways: the scanner, phone, camera, and microscope. Her chapters break down the strengths and limitations of each of these tools, drawing on her experiences creating images with scientific collaborators. . . . There are stunning and unexpected views of agate, slime molds, electrolyzer technologies, microfluidic devices, a statue at the Isabella Gardner Museum, and a bubbling Bolognese pasta sauce—all presented in the process of imparting methods for optimizing backgrounds, cropping photos, selecting the right lighting, and determining the best resolution. . . . There’s great joy in this line of work, and Frankel wants to share it with others. ‘This series is a distillation of really thirty years of what I've been doing and continue doing,’ she says. ‘The dirty little secret is that I'm learning the science as I'm making all these images. It's a great, great job.’"
"This compact and relatively inexpensive paperback is a gem that conveys the author's decades of expertise in capturing science and the scientific method. It provides a step-by-step manual for using several commonly available tools. It is also a source of inspiration, with several examples of the author's creativity and originality. More than anything else, the book is immensely pleasurable to peruse. . . . It is rare that a book inspires creativity and is at the same time so useful and instructive. I have shared this book with some science and engineering graduate students in my institution, and their enthusiasm for it has prompted me to place an order for several copies."
"A compelling read. . . . Loaded with stunning visuals, mostly photographs taken by Frankel herself, the book easily lends itself to flipping through and will pull the reader in with vivid colors, unique subject matter, and inventive close-ups that beg for a closer look. . . . The Visual Elements—Photography: A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering is exactly what the title suggests. It is a useful and accessible guide that gives a holistic view into what it takes to make a good image fit for publication. Frankel writes clearly and provides plenty of suggestions for practicing the techniques she discusses. Anyone working in the field of science or engineering could certainly benefit from the wisdom within this well-illustrated book. Even if you are simply a budding photographer like me, this is an invaluable tool to refine your skills."
"An outstanding resource, with a broad approach to capturing images, ideal for anyone interested in improving their communication through photographic images. . . . The images are very purposeful and serve to illustrate the author’s points, often including several steps in the process to show how the best results were achieved. She also provides many examples of the different approaches attempted and often asks the reader to determine for themselves which image portrays the content the best. . . . The Visual Elements—Photography is written for people in the science and engineering world to think about how they photograph their work for clear communication of their processes, ideas, data, and so forth, but the book is informative for anyone to learn some handy techniques and tricks for improving their photography."
“Frankel is a legend when it comes to science imaging. This book is her powerful, inspiring guide to the tools and techniques for success.”
“A trove of clear and concise recipes in granular detail.”
“In a word, remarkable.”
“Spectacular. . . . A brilliant demonstration of just how photogenic science can be and a guide to taking similar pictures.”