Scientific photographers tips

Photography tips and tricks with a scientific twist

  • 44 essential digital camera tips and tricks – A collection of top DSLR tips and essential camera help. Learn the secrets and shortcuts to setting up your camera for high-quality pictures every time. Some obvious, some not so obvious, some clever, some dumb.
  • New Facebook photo display – Pop up gallery display for Facebook photos allows for one-click download – what do you think of the change?
  • Felice Frankel, photographer and scientist – Felice C. Frankel has received awards and grants for her scientific photography from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Photographic Society of America, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the Loeb Fellowship, and the Lennart Nilsson Foundation, among others. She holds concurrent positions at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
  • Interview with a science photographer – Dana Lipp received his BS in Chemistry at Bridgewater State College in 1975 and ultimately went on to do an MS in Food Science at the University of Massachusetts 1995. He worked at Morton-Thiokol, Ventron Division, Danvers, MA from 1977 to 1987 as Senior Chemist and then at Polyonics in Newbury, MA from 1987 to 1988. He moved to Ocean Spray in Lakeville, MA as Principal Scientist where he spent the years 1988 to 1999 and was a Scientific Consultant, in Braintree, MA 1999-2000. He was then Customer Education Lab Manager at Waters Corporation, in Milford, MA, from 2000 to 2002. He is a Visiting Chemistry Lecturer at Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater. He is now taking his scientific understanding and combining it with his photographic passion to create scientifically accurate illustrations.