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• The element of art in scientific research – Are you still sure that there is no opportunity in science for creative people to realize themselves? In fact, even such serious field needs a bit of art. Let me show you the creative grain of this sphere with the example of scientific photography.
• Scientific Photography: Career Summary – Scientific Photographers explore hidden aspects of the world around us. They take pictures of varied subject matter, using such techniques as aerial, close-up and high-speed photography. Scientific Photographers usually have an Associate, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts in Scientific Photography or a related field.
• A career as a scientific photographer – Thinking of a career in scientific photography? If you have a science background or a keen interest in science, then you have one of the major traits of a scientific photographer. Learn more about this highly specialized niche in photography by reading this article.
• Scientific photographer skillset – Scientific photography has been one of the driving forces behind the development of photo imaging since Victorian times. If you have a keen interest in the world around you, and the hidden truths of existence, then scientific photography is an exciting and vibrant field of practice. Scientific Photographers record experiments, illustrate scientific information and analyse the hidden world around us, using a variety of specialist photo imaging techniques, such as, infrared, ultraviolet, time-lapse, thermal imaging and micrography (a camera attached to a microscope).

Sepia-toned fishing boats, Dunwich Beach

The term ‘sepia’ comes from the name of an artists’ pigment made from the sepia cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis found in the English Channel. Although sepia toning is done chemically to convert the metallic silver in the photographic print to a sulfide compound, which gives it that “old-fashioned” hue but protects the photograph from environmental pollutants such as atmospheric sulfur compounds.

There are three types of sepia toner in modern use: Sodium sulfide toners, the traditional ‘rotten egg’ toner; thiourea (or ‘thiocarbamide’) toners, these are odourless and the tone can be varied according to the chemical mixture; Polysulfide or ‘direct’ toners, which avoid a bleaching stage.

A print is first soaked in potassium ferricyanide bleach to re-convert the metallic silver to silver halide. It is then washed to remove excess potassium ferricyanide then finally immersed in a bath of toner, which converts the silver halides to silver sulfide. Incomplete bleaching creates a multi-toned image with sepia highlights and grey midtones and shadows. This is called split toning. The untoned silver in the print can be treated with a different toner, such as gold or selenium.

Sepia-toned images are associated with period photography of the 1800s. Modern photographers and cinematographers exploit the “old-time-feel” of sepia toning to good, if not a little cliched, effect to evoke nostalgia.

Today, sepia toning is more of an aesthetic choice than an environmental protection racket and with a little action in Photoshop or almost any other image editor you save a cuttlefish from the inky writing on the seawall.

I installed WordPress and then messed around with various themes until I found the excellent Sliding Door, which does the neat sliding photos effect you see above. Needless to say, I swapped out the default sliding images for a few of my own.

From left to right:

A dusky scene at the Milton Country Park north of Cambridge, as a family we’ve spent many a happy hour playing, cycling, walking and photographing this ex-gravel pit.

Bunsen, our family black and white short-hair former cat in an unusual fast-moving action shot.

One of the giant species of Papaver orientale (poppy) that grow in our front garden and to which I am drawn each summer with a camera in hand.

York Railway Museum silhouetted steam wheels/machinery stuff. Ever since childhood I’ve found this museum to be fascinating and I’m certainly no trainspotter, in any sense of the word.

The night view from our room at the Belfast Hilton on a visit to the chemistry department at Queen’s University Belfast.

Aldeburgh/Slaughden beacon – an indicator of why tide and wave power might be the future for renewable energy, given that there used to be a village here rather than a shingle beach.

Baltic Flour Mills and Newcastle Eye over the River Tyne. The Mills are an art gallery, the Eye is very much testament to the fusion of art and engineering.

As I was uploading the new images it suddenly struck me that the new photo blog could do with a stronger theme than it just being my random photos of everything and anything, and so I intend to tie in a scientific theme with each photo I post. I’ve got almost 50 gigabytes of digital images and that does not include traditional negatives yet to be scanned of which there are several thousand dating back two decades. I’m fairly confident I can post at least a weekly item with a scientific connection. Watch this space.

Next week carbon dioxide…

Commercial photography is probably best defined as any photography for which the photographer is paid for images rather than works of art. In this light money could be paid for the subject of the photograph or the photograph itself. Wholesale, retail, and professional uses of photography would fall under this definition. The commercial photographic world could include:

* Advertising photography: photographs made to illustrate and usually sell a service or product. These images, such as packshots, are generally done with an advertising agency, design firm or with an in-house corporate design team.
* Fashion and glamour photography: This type of photography usually incorporates models. Fashion photography emphasizes the clothes or product, glamour emphasizes the model. Glamour photography is popular in advertising and in men’s magazines. Models in glamour photography may be nude, but this is not always the case.
* Crime Scene Photography: This type of photography consists of photographing scenes of crime such as robberies and murders. A black and white camera or an infrared camera may be used to capture specific details.
* Still life photography usually depicts inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made.
* Food photography can be used for editorial, packaging or advertising use. Food photography is similar to still life photography, but requires some special skills.
* Editorial photography: photographs made to illustrate a story or idea within the context of a magazine. These are usually assigned by the magazine.
* Photojournalism: this can be considered a subset of editorial photography. Photographs made in this context are accepted as a documentation of a news story.
* Portrait and wedding photography: photographs made and sold directly to the end user of the images.
* Landscape photography: photographs of different locations.
* Wildlife photography that demonstrates life of the animals.
* Photo sharing: publishing or transfer of a user’s digital photos online.
* Paparazzi

The market for photographic services demonstrates the aphorism “A picture is worth a thousand words”, which has an interesting basis in the history of photography. Magazines and newspapers, companies putting up Web sites, advertising agencies and other groups pay for photography.

Many people take photographs for self-fulfillment or for commercial purposes. Organizations with a budget and a need for photography have several options: they can employ a photographer directly, organize a public competition, or obtain rights to stock photographs. Photo stock can be procured through traditional stock giants, such as Getty Images or Corbis; smaller microstock agencies, such as Fotolia; or web marketplaces, such as Cutcaster.

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The word “photograph” was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek ??? (phos) “light” and ????? (graphê) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light”.[2] Traditionally, the products of photography have been called negatives and photographs, commonly shortened to photos.